The threat actors behind AVADDON were not new and they are likely not gone as long destructive attacks are profitable. They rebuild and evolve. Big shoutout to @HefrPidge and Ervin from Advanced Practices @Mandiant for joining forces with me in this blog https://t.co/GbxVUlAAXx
📢Demystifying APT42 Cyberoperations
5 minute warning. Demystifying APT42 Cyberoperations, will be starting in Track 1. Presented by Adrian Sanchez Hernandez @Sapphirex00 & Asli Koksal @asli_koksal
NEW: North Korean cybercriminals stole over $1 billion in cryptocurrency last year despite diminishing returns from virtual heists across the world, according to a U.S. blockchain analytics firm.
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https://t.co/7Kg1DRZgoj In March of this year we began seeing similar blending efforts that we saw DPRK do during the pandemic, then 3CX popped off giving us more insight, then Andariel’s ROCKHATCH malware popped off with fingerprints of two other APTs in it….
JJ and I made a decision to detail what we were seeing and @Mandiant DPRK FC spent all of May and June gathering not just cyber data, but multi-sourced intelligence to develop the picture more fully. @Mgkarayan@AustinLarsen_@TaylorLongg@Sapphirex00 and others …
@Big_Bad_W0lf_@ImposeCost Do you read one book at a time or multiple assigning to each a particular time or moment throughout the day? I'm trying the second, finding it slower but more enjoyable due to the variety of topics, but wondering what's more efficient.
@nicastronaut Call it job insecurity, fear of missing out and other delights hitting hard millennials worldwide. Possibly tech industry gets the worst part due it its fast paced nature and volatility.
@Myrtus0x0 From the top of my head: it's possible that whatever is using to encode/encrypt the strings is not designed or developed by him/her and its needs; or found errors decoding/decrypting the C&C and reading it properly prior passing it to its network module.