Earth Centaur Hackers Group (aka Tropic Trooper) Targets Transportation & Government Companies

guest · Dec 24, 2021

December 24, 2021

A new hacking group, dubbed Earth Centaur which was previously known as Tropic Trooper has recently targeted transportation and government companies.

This hacking group has been active since 2011, in short, it’s a long-running cyberespionage hacking group. While the security company, Trend Micro in July 2020 has detected some suspicious activity of Earth Centaur and since then the security analysts at Trend Micro have been monitoring the group.
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The appearance of the Earth Centaur hacking group is the resurgence of Tropic Trooper.
They targeted the transportation and government companies to breach the following sensitive data:-

Flight schedules

Financial planning documents

Intranet

Dump credentials

Wipe out event logs

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Here’s what the security experts at Trend Micro stated:-

“Currently, we have not discovered substantial damage to these victims as caused by the threat group. However, we believe that it will continue collecting internal information from the compromised victims and that it is simply waiting for an opportunity to use this data.”
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Trend Micro: Collecting In the Dark: Tropic Trooper Targets Transportation and Government

Our long-term monitoring of the cyberespionage group Earth Centaur (aka Tropic Trooper) shows that the threat actors are equipped with new tools and techniques. The group seems to be targeting transportation companies and government agencies related to transportation.
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These threat actors are notably sophisticated and well-equipped. Looking deeper into the new methods the group uses, we found that it has an arsenal of tools capable of assessing and then compromising its targets while remaining under the radar.

For example, the group can map their target’s network infrastructure and bypass firewalls. It uses backdoors with different protocols, which are deployed depending on the victim. It also has the capability to develop customized tools to evade security monitoring in different environments, and it exploits vulnerable websites and uses them as C&C servers.
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