Newly uncovered 'Leafminer' hacking group hitting wide array of Middle Eastern targets

guest · Jul 25, 2018

Newly uncovered 'Leafminer' hacking group hitting wide array of Middle Eastern targets
July 25, 2018
https://www.cyberscoop.com/leafminer-symantec-middle-eastern-hacking/

A newly uncovered hacking group has breached a number of critical infrastructure and government organizations in the Middle East with a mixture of publicly available and custom-built tools, according to new research from cybersecurity giant Symantec.

Dubbed Leafminer by the company, the group has infiltrated a number of organizations in countries such as Azerbaijan, Israel, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, with a variety of intrusion techniques.

It also leverages EternalBlue, the exploit that takes advantage of flaws in Microsoft’s Server Message Block protocol. That exploit was made available in the Shadow Brokers leak, which gave the public access to a massive library of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency.

“The next step for us to watch to see if Leafminer goes outside of these countries and attack outside of these verticals,” he said. “We expect these attacks to continue.”
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