Woburn, MA – July 10, 2018 – During the second quarter of 2018, Kaspersky Lab researchers observed an active landscape of advanced persistent threat (APT) operations, based mainly in Asia and involving both well-known and less familiar threat actors. A number of groups targeted or timed their campaigns around sensitive geopolitical incidents. These and other trends are covered in Kaspersky Lab’s latest quarterly threat intelligence summary.
In Q2 2018, Kaspersky Lab researchers continued to uncover new tools, techniques and campaigns being launched by APT groups, some of which had been quiet for years. Asia remained the epicenter of APT interest: regional groups, such as the Korean-speaking Lazarus and Scarcruft were particularly busy, and researchers discovered an implant called LightNeuron being used by the Russian-speaking Turla to target Central Asia and the Middle East.
Highlights in Q2 2018 include:
“The second quarter of 2018 was very interesting in terms of APT activity, with a few remarkable campaigns that remind us how real some of the threats we have been predicting over the last few years have become,” said Vicente Diaz, principal security researcher, Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team. “In particular, we have repeatedly warned that networking hardware is ideally suited to targeted attacks, and we have highlighted the existence and spread of advanced activity focusing on these devices.”
The Q2 APT Trends report summarizes the findings of Kaspersky Lab’s subscriber-only threat intelligence reports, which also include Indicators of Compromise (IOC) data and YARA rules to assist in forensics and malware-hunting. For more information, please contact: intelreports@kaspersky.com.
The Q2 APT Trends summary report can be found on Securelist.
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