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Pawn Storm Targets German Christian Democratic Union

  • Posted on:May 11, 2016 at 8:21 am
  • Posted in:Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Feike Hacquebord (Senior Threat Researcher)
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April last year, Pawn Storm reportedly compromised computers of the German Bundestag using data-stealing malware. This was the first documented political attack of Pawn Storm against Germany. One year later, this espionage actor group takes a swing once again.

In April 2016, we discovered that Pawn Storm started a new attack against the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the political party of the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel.

The attack consisted of seemingly coordinated credential phishing attacks against the CDU and high profile users of two German freemail providers. A fake corporate webmail server of CDU was set up in Latvia for advanced credential phishing. Around the same time, three domains were created for credential phishing targeting high-profile individual users of two German free webmail providers. The main fake webmail server of CDU was set up in Latvia, but the free webmail credential phishing sites are on servers of the Virtual Private Server provider in the Netherlands we have discussed previously.

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Tags: CDUGerman Christian Democratic UnionGermanyPawn Stormtargeted attacks

Hacktivist Group CyberBerkut Behind Attacks on German Official Websites

  • Posted on:January 20, 2015 at 8:30 am
  • Posted in:Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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A pro-Russian group called CyberBerkut claimed responsibility for a recent hack on certain German government websites in early January. We were able to gather some information on some of its members based on Pastebin data that had been leaked by the Ukrainian nationalist political party (Pravy Sektor). A Background on CyberBerkut CyberBerkut is an organized group…

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Tags: CyberBerkutGermanygovernmenthackinghacktivisimukraine

1H 2014 Spam Attacks and Trends

  • Posted on:July 24, 2014 at 8:40 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Maria Manly (Anti-spam Research Engineer)
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In the first half of the year, the spam volume increased by 60% compared to the data last 1H 2013.  We can attribute these to several factors:  the prevalence of DOWNAD and the steady boom of malware-related emails with spam-sending capabilities (such as MYTOB). Prevalent threats like UPATRE and ZeuS/ZBOT also employed spam as its…

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Tags: ConfickercybercrimeDOWNADGermanyMalwareSpamZBOTZeuS

Scams Circulate After German Email Accounts Get Hacked

  • Posted on:February 3, 2014 at 1:48 pm
  • Posted in:Social
  • Author:
    Michael Tants (Threats Analyst)
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Recently, the German Federal Office for Information Security disclosed that the email accounts of up to 16 million users had been compromised. The computers of these users were infected with information-stealing malware which were used to steal these login credentials. The German government has set up a page where users can check if their email accounts…

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Tags: emailFederal Office for Information SecurityGermanyscam

Backdoor Wipes MBR, Locks Screen

  • Posted on:June 5, 2013 at 7:49 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Lenart Bernejo (Threat Response Engineer)
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German users are at risk of having their systems rendered unusable by a malware that we’re seeing being sent via spam messages. This particular malware, on top of its ability to remotely control an affected system, is able to wipe out the Master Boot Record – a routine that had previously caused a great crisis…

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Tags: backdoorGermanyMBR WiperSouth KoreaSpam
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