AttackIQ Blog

    Emulating Kimsuky’s Espionage Operations: A Closer Look at North Korea’s Efforts to Infiltrate South Korea

    April 26, 2023
    AttackIQ has released four new attack graphs that emulate the espionage activities led by Kimsuky, a politically motivated North Korean adversary with links to the nation’s intelligence operations.
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    Defend as One: UK Cyber Security Strategy for Health and Adult Social Care to 2030

    April 26, 2023
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    Response to Lazarus’ 3CX Supply Chain Compromise

    April 14, 2023
    AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that aims to emulate the activities linked to the recent supply chain attack against the software developed by the company 3CX. This new release aims to emulate the activities carried out during the initial stages of the system compromise and the hands-on keyboard activity led by Lazarus Group.
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    Emulating Recent Malicious Activity from the Iranian Adversary OilRig

    April 4, 2023
    AttackIQ has released a new full-featured attack graph that emulates recent activity carried out by the politically motivated Iranian-sponsored adversary known as OilRig.
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    Emulating the Politically Motivated Chinese APT Mustang Panda

    March 23, 2023
    AttackIQ has released two new attack graphs that emulate recent activities conducted by the Chinese adversary known as Mustang Panda. The actor leveraged a historical family of malware known as PlugX, which is shared between multiple groups of Chinese origin known, and a new previously unknown backdoor exclusive to this actor.
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    Emulating the Infamous Modular Banking Trojan BokBot

    March 23, 2023
    AttackIQ has released two new attack graphs that emulate recent activities involving the banking trojan known as BokBot, which has been primarily focused on exfiltrating data and stealing credentials. This new release continues our focused research on emulating shared e-crime malware used in attacks by multiple adversaries.
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    Attack Graph Response to CISA Advisory (AA23-075A): #StopRansomware: LockBit 3.0

    March 17, 2023
    AttackIQ has released a new fully featured attack graph that emulates the behaviors demonstrated by the latest version the LockBit ransomware family “LockBit 3.0”, also known as “LockBit Black.”
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    Attack Graph Response to CISA Advisory (AA23-074A): Threat Actors Exploit Progress Telerik Vulnerability in U.S. Government IIS Server

    March 17, 2023
    AttackIQ has released a new attack graph that emulates the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) used by a cybercriminal-focused adversary who carried successfully exploited CVE-2019-18935 against an instance of Telerik UI at a federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agency.
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    Hiding in Plain Sight: Monitoring and Testing for Living-Off-the-Land Binaries

    March 16, 2023
    For malicious actors, opportunity can be found in the mundane. As adversaries continue to refine their approach with newer and more sophisticated methods to perform malicious activity, it is critical for detection engineers to stay up to date in the latest threat intelligence and adversary behaviors to monitor.
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    Attack Graph Response to CISA Advisory (AA23-061A): #StopRansomware: Royal Ransomware

    March 3, 2023
    AttackIQ has released a new fully featured attack graph that emulates the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) observed in cyberattacks involving Royal Ransomware.
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    Emulating the Cybercriminal Initial Access Broker TA551

    March 3, 2023
    AttackIQ has released a new fully featured attack graph that emulates the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with a 2020 intrusion from the cybercriminal group TA551.
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    A Year of Impact: AttackIQ’s Applied Research in Threat-Informed Defense

    February 27, 2023
    Reactive to Preactive. Atomic to Anatomic. Lists to Graphs. Simulation to Emulation. To be prepared for the next attack, defenders must adapt and shift their focus to a threat-informed defense, to think like the adversary, and to test their security programs in a realistic manner.
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