New Mercenary APT Group Targeted Autodesk Software

guest · Aug 26, 2020

New Mercenary APT Group Targeted Autodesk Software
August 26, 2020
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/mercenary-apt-group-targeting/

Security researchers have uncovered yet another hacker-for-hire group armed with APT-style capabilities, which has targeted at least one high-value victim in the real estate sector.

Bitdefender revealed details of the unnamed group in a new report out today: More Evidence of APT Hackers-for-Hire Used for Industrial Espionage.
It discovered a relatively sophisticated info-stealing campaign targeting a wealthy architectural and video production company engaged in billion-dollar luxury real-estate projects in New York, London, Australia and Oman.
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To carry out its industrial espionage goals, the group utilized C&C infrastructure in South Korea and a zero-day malicious payload designed to exploit vulnerable Autodesk 3ds Max software used by the victim organization for 3D modelling.

The discovery of the hackers-for-hire group comes after recent revelations about the existence of similar mercenary outfits including Deceptikons and Dark Basin, as well as StrongPity, which was linked to the Turkish military.

“This is beginning to be a new trend that we're likely to see more of in the future,” warned Bitdefender global cybersecurity researchers, Liviu Arsene.
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Bitdefender: APT Hackers for Hire Used for Industrial Espionage

Bitdefender recently investigated an APT-style cyberespionage attack targeting an international architectural and video production company, pointing to an advanced threat actor and South Korean-based C&C infrastructure.

The targeted company is known to have been collaborating in billion-dollar real estate projects in New York, London, Australia, and Oman. The sophistication of the attack reveals that the APT-style group had prior knowledge of the company’s security systems and used software applications, carefully planning their attack to infiltrate the company and exfiltrate data undetected.
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Whitepaper: "More Evidence of APT Hackers-for-Hire Used for Industrial Espionage"
(PDF - 4.79 MB): https://www.bitdefender.com/files/News/CaseStudies/study/365/Bitdefender-PR-Whitepaper-APTHackers-creat4740-en-EN-GenericUse.pdf

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