Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Recent hacking activities by APT-27 (China)

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) put out the below press release in mid-Feb of 2022.  An APT group had been in their systems for a while.  The initial compromise appears to be cve-2021-40539 which is a flaw in a web authentication module.  APT27 is known to exploit this CVE and use the webshells in question.

https://www.icrc.org/en/document/cyber-attack-icrc-what-we-know

Earlier in 2022, the German government warned of APT-27 hackers backdooring business networks, using the HyperBro remote access trojans (RAT) to backdoor into their networks.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/german-govt-warns-of-apt27-hackers-backdooring-business-networks/


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