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Suspected APT29 Operation Launches Election Fraud Themed Phishing Campaigns

May 27, 2021

Damien Cash, Josh Grunzweig, Matthew Meltzer, Sean Koessel, Steven Adair, and Tom Lancaster

On May 25, 2021, Volexity identified a phishing campaign targeting multiple organizations based in the United States and Europe. The following industries have been observed being targeted thus far: NGOs […]

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Operation Exchange Marauder: Active Exploitation of Multiple Zero-Day Microsoft Exchange Vulnerabilities

March 2, 2021

Josh Grunzweig, Matthew Meltzer, Sean Koessel, Steven Adair, and Tom Lancaster

[UPDATE] March 8, 2021 – Since original publication of this blog, Volexity has now observed that cyber espionage operations using the SSRF vulnerability CVE-2021-26855 started occurring on January 3, 2021, three […]

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Responding to the SolarWinds Breach: Detect, Prevent, and Remediate the Dark Halo Supply Chain Attack

December 16, 2020

Volexity Threat Research

Earlier this week, Volexity published a blog post providing details observed from multiple incident response efforts involving Dark Halo, the group tied to the SolarWinds breach. Since publication, Volexity has fielded and […]

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Dark Halo Leverages SolarWinds Compromise to Breach Organizations

December 14, 2020

Damien Cash, Matthew Meltzer, Sean Koessel, Steven Adair, Tom Lancaster, and Volexity Threat Research

Volexity is releasing additional research and indicators associated with compromises impacting customers of the SolarWinds Orion software platform. Volexity has also published a guide for responding to the SolarWinds breach, […]

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OceanLotus: Extending Cyber Espionage Operations Through Fake Websites

November 6, 2020

Steven Adair, Tom Lancaster, and Volexity Threat Research

Since Volexity’s 2017 discovery that OceanLotus was behind a sophisticated massive digital surveillance campaign, the threat group has continued to evolve. In 2019, Volexity gave a presentation at RSA Conference […]

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Evil Eye Threat Actor Resurfaces with iOS Exploit and Updated Implant

April 21, 2020

Andrew Case, Dave Lassalle, Matthew Meltzer, Sean Koessel, Steven Adair, and Tom Lancaster

In September 2019, Volexity published Digital Crackdown: Large-Scale Surveillance and Exploitation of Uyghurs, which described a series of attacks against Uyghurs from multiple Chinese APT actors. The most notable threat […]

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Storm Cloud Unleashed: Tibetan Focus of Highly Targeted Fake Flash Campaign

March 31, 2020

Volexity Threat Research

Beginning in May 2019, Volexity started tracking a new series of strategic web compromises that have been used in highly targeted attacks against Tibetan individuals and organizations by a Chinese […]

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Microsoft Exchange Control Panel (ECP) Vulnerability CVE-2020-0688 Exploited

March 6, 2020

Volexity Threat Research

On February 11, 2020, as part of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released cumulative updates and a service pack that addressed a remote code execution vulnerability found in Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2013, […]

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Vulnerable Private Networks: Corporate VPNs Exploited in the Wild

September 11, 2019

Sean Koessel and Steven Adair

The details of multiple, critical Pulse Secure SSL VPN vulnerabilities are well known; they were disclosed in detail by two security researchers as part of a talk at Black Hat […]

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Digital Crackdown: Large-Scale Surveillance and Exploitation of Uyghurs

September 2, 2019

Andrew Case, Matthew Meltzer, and Steven Adair

Over the last several years, numerous reports have emerged regarding the shocking treatment of Uyghurs, a Muslim minority ethnic group that makes up a large part of the Xinjiang Uyghur […]