๐ New Cyber Espionage Group Targeting Ministries of Foreign Affairs
๐ก Newskategorie: IT Security Nachrichten
๐ Quelle: news.softpedia.com
Cybersecurity experts revealed a new cyber espionage cell responsible for a series of targeted operations against diplomatic facilities and telecommunications companies in Africa and the Middle East since at least 2017. ย The campaign, dubbed BackdoorDiplomacy, involves targeting vulnerabilities in devices exposed to the Internet, such as web servers, to conduct a variety of cyber hacking activities, including moving laterally across the network to deploy a custom implant called Turian that is capable of exfiltrating sensitive data stored on removable media.ย Jean-Ian Boutin, head of threat research at Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET said, "BackdoorDiplomacy shares tactics, techniques, and procedures with other Asia-based groups. Turian likely represents a next stage evolution of Quarian, the backdoor last observed in use in 2013 against diplomatic tar... ...