Threat Intelligence - RH-ISAC Blog

Context On November 20, 2020, the FIFA World Cup 2022 is scheduled to begin in Qatar. Multiple retail, hospitality, and travel organizations are involved in this event to varying degrees and on various fronts and may be affected, including: Organizations, especially hospitality organizations, with a presence in Qatar Organizations that handle sports betting Organizations that…

On November 9, 2022, Trend Micro researchers reported two campaigns they attribute to a new threat group Earth Longzhi, which they assess is a subgroup of APT41. Context Trend Micro researchers based the assessed connection between the groups on shared targets, shared Cobalt Strike metadata, code similarities, and shared tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Impact…

Vienna, VA (November 7, 2022) – The Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC) today released its Holiday Season Cyber Threat Trends report, which examines the threat landscape facing the retail and hospitality sector during the holiday season, typically the busiest time of year for these industries. According to the report, QakBot, Emotet, Agent…

On November 3, 2022, Sentinel Labs researchers published a report linking the Black Basta Ransomware group to FIN7 (also known as Carbanak) based on shared tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) between Black Basta tools and FIN7 tools. Key Takeaways Key findings for the report include: SentinelLabs researchers describe Black Basta operational TTPs in full detail,…

On November 1, 2022, OpenSSL developers released details of two vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602. Context In an accompanying blog post, OpenSSL explained that they downgraded the severity of the vulnerabilities to high from the originally announced critical level due to technical barriers to exploitation. No in the wild exploits or proofs of concept (POCs) are…