Context Throughout 2023, Sekoia.io’s Threat Detection & Research (TDR) team actively tracked and monitored adversary C2 infrastructures set up and used by lucrative and state-sponsored intrusion sets to carry out malicious cyber activities. Our...

This report aims to detail the functioning of a malware used by FIN7 since 2021, named DiceLoader (also known Icebot), and to provide a comprehensive approach of the threat by detailing the related Techniques...

Last month, Sekoia.io took part to NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDOE) Crossed Swords cyber exercise (aka XS23) organized in Tallinn, Estonia. Involving high-level expert teams from dozen of NATO member countries,...

Based on these observations and given the constantly evolving cyber threat landscape, we analysed cyber threats affecting previous editions of the Olympics, as well as the current geopolitical context to understand potential motivations of...

Introduction  In the ever-changing cybersecurity landscape, Identity and Access Management (IAM) stands as the cornerstone of an organisation’s digital asset protection. IAM solutions play an essential role in managing user identities, controlling access to...

Investigation context On 7 December 2023, a joint advisory from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand attributed the previously known intrusion set Star Blizzard (aka CALISTO for Sekoia.io) to Russian Federal Security...

This report was originally published for our customers on 27 November 2023. As part of our critical vulnerabilities monitoring routine, Sekoia’s Threat & Detection Research (TDR) team deploys and supervises honeypots in different locations...

Infection chains used by commodity malware are constantly evolving and use various tricks to bypass security measures and/or user awareness. BumbleBee, QNAPWorm, IcedID and Qakbot are all often used as first-stage malicious code, allowing...

This report aims at depicting recent trends in cyber threats impacting the financial sector worldwide. It focuses on principal tactics, techniques and procedures used by lucrative and state-sponsored intrusion sets by providing an analysis...

Introduction & Objectives DarkGate is sold as Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) on various cybercrime forums by RastaFarEye persona, in the past months it has been used by multiple threat actors such as TA577 and Ducktail. DarkGate...