ESET: Mind the (air) gap: GoldenJackal gooses government guardrails

FanJ · Oct 9, 2024

Mind the (air) gap: GoldenJackal gooses government guardrails
ESET - 07 Oct 2024
https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/e...ap-goldenjackal-gooses-government-guardrails/

ESET Research analyzed two separate toolsets for breaching air-gapped systems, used by a cyberespionage threat actor known as GoldenJackal
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Key points of the blogpost:
- GoldenJackal used a custom toolset to target air-gapped systems at a South Asian embassy in Belarus since at least August 2019. In this blogpost, we describe these tools publicly for the first time.
- This blogpost also features the first public description of a highly modular toolset GoldenJackal deployed in Europe on various occasions between May 2022 and March 2024 against a European Union government organization.
- These toolsets provide GoldenJackal a wide set of capabilities for compromising and persisting in targeted networks. Victimized systems are abused to collect interesting information, process the information, exfiltrate files, and distribute files, configurations and commands to other systems.
- The ultimate goal of GoldenJackal seems to be stealing confidential information, especially from high-profile machines that might not be connected to the internet.
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