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Platinum APT and leverages steganography to hide C2 communications

Security Affairs

In June 2018, experts at Kaspersky were investigating attacks against government and military entities in South and Southeast Asian countries, The experts tracked the campaign as EasternRoppels, they speculate it may have started as far back as 2012. Data are encoded with a second steganography technique. ” continues Kaspersky.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 431 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

It’s Testing U.S.

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Google TAG warns that Russian COLDRIVER APT is using a custom backdoor

Security Affairs

The ColdRiver APT (aka “ Seaborgium “, “Callisto”, “Star Blizzard”, “TA446”) is a Russian cyberespionage group that has been targeting government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since at least 2015. In November 2022, TAG spotted COLDRIVER sending targets benign PDF documents from impersonation accounts.