ESET APT Activity Report

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ESET APT Activity Report T3 2022
An overview of the activities of selected APT groups investigated and analyzed by ESET Research in T3 2022
By Jean-Ian Boutin - January 31, 2023

ESET APT Activity Report T3 2022 summarizes the activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were observed, investigated, and analyzed by ESET researchers from September until the end of December 2022.
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In the monitored timespan, Russia-aligned APT groups continued to be particularly involved in operations targeting Ukraine, deploying destructive wipers and ransomware. Among many other cases, we detected the infamous Sandworm group using a previously unknown wiper against an energy sector company in Ukraine.

APT groups are usually operated by a nation-state or by state-sponsored actors; the described attack happened in October, in the same period as the Russian armed forces started launching missile strikes targeting energy infrastructure, and while we are not able to show those events were coordinated, it suggests that Sandworm and military forces of Russia have related objectives.
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(PDF): https://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/eset_apt_activity_report_t32022.pdf

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