In July of 2021, we identified an infection campaign targeting important European entities. During this investigation we could identify the threat actor behind these attacks as LazyScripter, an emerging APT group pointed by MalwareBytes in February 2021. Through our analysis, we could track their activity with precise dates in 2021 based on their samples. Furthermore, […]
Looking for Penquins in the Wild
During 2020 Leonardo analysts discovered and published a very in depth analysis of a threat known as Penquin, attributed to the APT group Turla. 32-bit samples of this threat had been detected and analyzed by Kaspersky before, but the analysis in this most recent publication was focused on a new 64-bit sample. It firstly caught […]
New TransparenTribe Operation: Targeting India with weaponized COVID-19 lure documents
Over the last months, lab52 has been researching an attack campaign which targets government and military personnel of India. In fact, targeting the Indian government seems to be one of the key indicators of the group that may be behind this attack. Furthermore, some of the artifacts and infrastructure used to carry out the novel […]
TokyoX: DLL side-loading an unknown artifact (Part 2)
As we mentioned in the previous post, we have performed an analysis of the threat which, lacking further information, we have not been able to identify it as a known threat. Thus, for the moment, we will keep referring to it as TokyoX. This threat can only be found in memory, since it is encrypted […]
TokyoX: DLL side-loading an unknown artifact
During Christmas holidays, Lab52 has been analyzing a sample which loads an artifact that we have decided to refer to as “TokyoX” since no similarities have been found as to any known malware, which we usually detect in open sources. However, we cannot confirm so far that it is indeed a new family of malware. […]
Cuba Ransomware Analysis
Due to the recent warning published by the FBI about Cuba ransomware (original FBI warning no longer available online for unknown reasons), from Lab52 we decided to publish some information about this ransomware family. Despite the fact that the ransomware has been named Cuba, there is no clear evidence linking the country to the implementation […]