This new hacking group is using 'island hopping' to target victims

guest · Oct 3, 2019

This new hacking group is using 'island hopping' to target victims
October 3, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-new-hacking-group-is-using-island-hopping-to-target-victims/

While it was believed that hacking groups such as China's APT10 were orchestrating the attacks against European multinationals in the aerospace and defense industries this year, the threats are actually coming from previously unknown hackers, according to one security company.

This is reflective of Avivore strategy: the group applies an "island hopping' technique - which consists of attacking a bigger group indirectly, through its network of weaker, less defended partner companies - in a 'horizontal' way rather than the more traditional 'vertical' one.

Oliver Fay, threat intelligence analyst at Context, told ZDNet: "We detected Avivore from anomalies, which are harder to detect than incidents. Typically, this happened when we noticed that some employees were accessing assets or using resources they shouldn't be."
It is presumed that the newly-identified organisation is primarily after its victims' intellectual property - and in addition to aerospace and defense companies, it has also been targeting the automotive, consultancy, energy, nuclear and space and satellite technology industries.
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