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AridViper, an intrusion set allegedly associated with Hamas
Given the recent events involving the Palestinian politico-military organisation Hamas which conducted on 7 October 2023 a military and terrorist operation in Israel, Sekoia.io took a deeper look into AridViper, an intrusion set suspected to be assoc

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

Sekoia mid-2023 ransomware threat landscape
This blog post aims at presenting an overview of the ransomware-related threat evolution in the first half of 2023. The observations and the analysis shared in this blog post focus on ransomware operations mostly impacting corporate networks in lucra

The transportation sector cyber threat overview
This report aims at contextualising cyber activities targeting the transportation sector worldwide over the 2022 - 2023 period. This report is based on open source reporting and Sekoia.io observations of campaigns mostly impacting the road, air and r

My tea's not cold. An overview of China's cyber threat
This report is an overview of recent malicious cyber activities associated to China-nexus Intrusion Sets. It is based on open-source documents and Sekoia TDR analysts research and does not intend to present an exhaustive list of campaigns.

Engineering detection around Microsoft Defender
This blogpost slightly introduces Microsoft Defender different products and the confusion that can be made between them mainly because they were renamed over the years. Then it focuses on detection engineering around Microsoft Defender Antivirus (MDA

CustomerLoader: A new malware distributing a wide variety of payloads
This blog post aims at presenting a technical analysis of CustomerLoader focusing on the decryption of the next-stage payloads, an overview of more than 30 known and distributed malware families, and details on three infection chains observed distrib

Following NoName057(16) DDoSia Project’s Targets
DDoSia is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack toolkit, developed and used by the pro Russia hacktivist nationalist group NoName057(16) against countries critical of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Bluenoroff’s RustBucket campaign
In April 2023, fellow security researchers at Jamf published a report on Bluenoroff’s RustBucket, a newly observed malware targeting macOS platform. Sekoia.io analysts further investigated Bluenoroff’s infrastructure and share their findings.

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.

Overview of the Russian-speaking infostealer ecosystem: The logs
This blog post aims at presenting the life cycle of logs, the cybercrime marketplaces dedicated to logs and the noticeable schemes recently used by threat actors to exploit the stolen data.
Threat Detection & Research team
Sekoia Threat Detection & Research team, commonly known as the TDR team, is the driving force behind the Sekoia SOC platform, delivering exclusive threat intelligence.






