
Félix AIME
Principal Threat Researcher
Articles byFélix AIME

Predators for Hire: A Global Overview of Commercial Surveillance Vendors
This report provides an overview of the commercial surveillance vendors ecosystem between 2010 and 2025, analysing their spyware offerings, business models, client base, target profiles, and infection chains.

ViciousTrap - Infiltrate, Control, Lure: Turning edge devices into honeypots en masse.
This blog post analyzes the Vicious Trap, a honeypot network deployed on compromised edge devices.

From Contagious to ClickFake Interview: Lazarus leveraging the ClickFix tactic
Discover how Lazarus leverages fake job sites in the ClickFake Interview campaign targeting crypto firms using the ClickFix tactic.

Double-Tap Campaign: Russia-nexus APT possibly related to APT28 conducts cyber espionage on Central Asia and Kazakhstan diplomatic relations
Uncover the details of UAC-0063 cyberespionage campaign in Kazakhstan and its potential connection to APT28

Bulbature, beneath the waves of GobRAT
Since mid 2023, Sekoia Threat Detection & Research team (TDR) investigated an infrastructure which controls compromised edge devices transformed into Operational Relay Boxes used to launch offensive cyber attack.

SilentSelfie: Uncovering a major watering hole campaign against Kurdish websites
Our investigation uncovered 25 kurdish websites compromised by four different variants of a malicious script, ranging from the simplest, which obtains the device's location, to the most complex, which prompts selected users to install a malicious And

A glimpse into the Quad7 operators' next moves and associated botnets
Uncover the secrets of the Quad7 botnet and its ever-evolving toolset. Learn about the new backdoors and protocols used by these operators.

Solving the 7777 Botnet enigma: A cybersecurity quest
Discover 7777 botnet (aka Quad7) and its activity, targets, and use of TP-Link routers in Microsoft 365 attacks in our latest investigation.

Unplugging PlugX: Sinkholing the PlugX USB worm botnet
Learn about our process for collecting telemetry data from PlugX worm-infected workstations, as well as how to disinfect them.

The Predator spyware ecosystem is not dead
Discover our TDR team's revelations about Predator spyware: its C2 infrastructure and list of countries still using its cyber espionage tool.

Active Lycantrox infrastructure illumination
Sekoia.io is actively monitoring hundreds of malicious infrastructure clusters to protect its customers. In light of the recent Citizenlab blogspot and in solidarity with the efforts against cyber mercenaries, we have chosen to shed light on one of t

APT28 leverages multiple phishing techniques to target Ukrainian civil society
The APT28 intrusion set (aka. Sofacy, PawnStorm, Fancy Bear), associated to the Russian GRU was observed using multiple phishing techniques to target the Ukrainian civil society.

SEKOIA.IO analysis of the #VulkanFiles leak
In January 2023, French newspaper Le Monde offered SEKOIA.IO to cooperate on investigating exfiltrated Russian-written documents related to the Moscow-based private company Vulkan.

Peeking at Reaper’s surveillance operations
In this blogpost you will find the results of a survey conducted by our analysts on two Command and Control servers (C2s) of the North Korea-nexus intrusion set Reaper (aka APT37). This investigation led to the uncovering of several phishing webpages

Raspberry Robin's botnet second life
As many botnets and worms, Sekoia analysts demonstrate through this article that Raspberry Robin can be repurposed by other threat actors to deploy their own implants.

Calisto show interests into entities involved in Ukraine war support
Calisto (aka Callisto, COLDRIVER) is suspected to be a Russian-nexus intrusion set active since at least April 2017. Although it was not publicly attributed to any Russian intelligence service, past Calisto operations showed objectives and victimolog

LuckyMouse uses a backdoored Electron app to target MacOS
LuckyMouse uses a backdoored Electron app to target MacOS. This is the first time that Sekoia observed LuckyMouse targeting MacOS.





