Operation AppleJeus Sequel
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Lazarus continues to attack the cryptocurrency business with enhanced capabilities
The Lazarus group is currently one of the most active and prolific APT actors. In 2018, Kaspersky published a report on one of their campaigns, named Operation AppleJeus. Notably, this operation marked the first time Lazarus had targeted macOS users, with the group inventing a fake company in order to deliver their manipulated application and exploit the high level of trust among potential victims. As a result of our ongoing efforts, we identified significant changes to the group’s attack methodology. To attack macOS users, the Lazarus group has developed homemade macOS malware, and added an authentication mechanism to deliver the next stage payload very carefully, as well as loading the next-stage payload without touching the disk. In addition, to attack Windows users, they have elaborated a multi-stage infection procedure, and significantly changed the final payload. We assess that the Lazarus group …
The Lazarus group is currently one of the most active and prolific APT actors. In 2018, Kaspersky published a report on one of their campaigns, named Operation AppleJeus. Notably, this operation marked the first time Lazarus had targeted macOS users, with the group inventing a fake company in order to deliver their manipulated application and exploit the high level of trust among potential victims. As a result of our ongoing efforts, we identified significant changes to the group’s attack methodology. To attack macOS users, the Lazarus group has developed homemade macOS malware, and added an authentication mechanism to deliver the next stage payload very carefully, as well as loading the next-stage payload without touching the disk. In addition, to attack Windows users, they have elaborated a multi-stage infection procedure, and significantly changed the final payload. We assess that the Lazarus group …
IoC
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http://95.213.232.170/ProbActive/index.do
http://beastgoc.com/grepmonux.php
http://wfcwallet.com
http://www.celasllc.com/checkupdate.php||https://www.wb-bot.org/certpkg.php||https://www.wb-bot.org/certpkg.php|
https://unioncrypto.vip/update
https://www.wb-bot.org/certpkg.php
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23.254.217.53
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http://95.213.232.170/ProbActive/index.do
http://beastgoc.com/grepmonux.php
http://wfcwallet.com
http://www.celasllc.com/checkupdate.php||https://www.wb-bot.org/certpkg.php||https://www.wb-bot.org/certpkg.php|
https://unioncrypto.vip/update
https://www.wb-bot.org/certpkg.php