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Threat Awareness – EvilExtractor: Potentially Legitimate Tool Leveraged for Malicious Intent

Fortinet has written a blog discussing the use of the EvilExtractor tool in a March 2023 phishing campaign targeting networks in America and Europe. EvilExtractor is claimed to be a legitimate education tool, but researchers discovered it being advertised on criminal markets as an information stealer. EvilExtractor is modular, giving it many capabilities, including the ability to steal and upload data, wipe logs, and install ransomware.

Supply Chain Threat Awareness – North Korean X_Trader Supply Chain Attack Targets Energy, Financial Sector

Symantec has written a blog discussing the X_Trader software supply chain attack that impacted critical infrastructure organizations in the United States and Europe, including the energy and financial sectors. X_Trader, developed by Trading Technologies, is typically used for futures trading but a North Korean threat group has been linked to malicious versions utilized to deploy a multi-stage modular backdoor onto victims' systems.

CISA ICS Vulnerability Advisories and Alerts, Updates, and Bulletins – April 25, 2023

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the following ICS vulnerability advisories, as well as alerts, updates, and bulletins:

ICS Vulnerability Advisories:

Alerts, Updates, and Bulletins:

ICS/OT Ransomware Awareness – Dragos’s Most Recent Industrial Ransomware Analysis Highlights Rising Threat to Industrial Systems

Ransomware attacks continued to be a significant threat to industrial organizations and infrastructure with threat actors employing old and novel tactics to compromise victims, according to Dragos’ most recent first quarter of 2023 Industrial Ransomware Analysis report.

Threat Awareness – Iranian Threat Actor Mint Sandstorm Increasingly Targeting US Critical Infrastructure In 2023

Microsoft has posted a blog providing details on Mint Sandstorm, a threat actor group previously labeled PHOSPHORUS and who is believed to be associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the intelligence arm of Iran’s military. Over the past year, the group has shifted from network reconnaissance activities to actively targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, including the energy, transportation systems, and chemical sectors.

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