Operation Blockbuster revealed
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A glimpse at the spider web of the Lazarus Group APT campaigns
Kaspersky Lab has joined industry alliance driven by Novetta to announce Operation Blockbuster. Just like the previous Operation SMN, this alliance brings together key players in the IT security industry, working together in an effort to disrupt and neutralize multiple cyberespionage campaigns that have been active for several years. Some of the targets of these campaigns included financial institutions, media houses and manufacturing companies, among others.
In the past, we published our research into the malware that was publicly attributed to the Sony Pictures (SPE) hack. Building on that data, Kaspersky Lab conducted more focused research into a cluster of related campaigns stretching back several years before the SPE incident. That cluster involves several malware families as well as campaigns that have not received media attention and were previously considered unrelated. By focusing primarily on instances of code-reuse and leveraging …
Kaspersky Lab has joined industry alliance driven by Novetta to announce Operation Blockbuster. Just like the previous Operation SMN, this alliance brings together key players in the IT security industry, working together in an effort to disrupt and neutralize multiple cyberespionage campaigns that have been active for several years. Some of the targets of these campaigns included financial institutions, media houses and manufacturing companies, among others.
In the past, we published our research into the malware that was publicly attributed to the Sony Pictures (SPE) hack. Building on that data, Kaspersky Lab conducted more focused research into a cluster of related campaigns stretching back several years before the SPE incident. That cluster involves several malware families as well as campaigns that have not received media attention and were previously considered unrelated. By focusing primarily on instances of code-reuse and leveraging …