The hackers responsible for the SolarWinds supply chain attacks have again been linked to multiple attacks targeting businesses and governments globally. The hacking group is continuing to refine and retool its methods at an incredible speed while targeting cloud solution providers, services and reseller companies.
The intrusions are being actively tracked under two different activity clusters: UNC3004 and UNC2652. Both of these are associated with UNC2452, an uncategorised hacking group, which has been tied to the Russian intelligence service. It has since been discovered that this group is targeting diplomatic entities using phishing emails. Victims are prompted to open HTML attachments that contain malicious JavaScript, which would drop a Cobalt Strike Beacon onto the device.
Andy Norton, European cyber risk officer at Armis commented: “Culture and Frameworks represent our best defence against sophisticated attackers. Not just in stopping the attackers getting in, but in swift detection once they are in and in deploying response techniques to minimise the damage. In an asymmetric warfare space such as cyber it’s not possible to know the enemy, however it is possible to know yourself. And so, understanding what assets you have, where they are and how critical they are, is a vital step in risk management, cyber resilience and survivability.”
