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Nice Try Tonto Team: How a nation-state APT attempted to attack Group-IB

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Dissent

Group-IB writes:

In 2023, IT and cybersecurity companies remain one of the most attractive targets for cybercriminals, according to the latest threat report “Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2022/2023”. The compromise of a vendor’s infrastructure opens up ample opportunities to penetrate the network further and gain access to a huge pool of data about the victim’s customers and partners. Remember how the SolarWinds attack put Microsoft, Cisco, FireEye, Mimecast, and 18,000 other companies at risk?

In light of the military conflict, nation-state threat actors from around the world, including from countries that are not directly involved in the crisis, are actively carrying out cyber espionage operations.

In the summer of 2022, the Group-IB Managed Extended Detection and Response (MXDR) solution successfully detected and blocked an email carrying a malicious attachment. This email was intended for Group-IB’s employees. While analyzing this attack, Anastasia Tikhonova, Head of APT Research, and Dmitry Kupin, Senior Malware Analyst, at the Group-IB Threat Intelligence team found patterns in the actions of the attackers and attributed the observed TTPs to Tonto Team. The results of their research are worthy of a separate blog. These findings were presented at GovWare 2022 in Singapore by Anastasia Tikhonova.

Read more at Group-IB

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