Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat operation Turla, also known as Secret Blizzard, Snake, Waterbug, and Venomous Bear, has been found to be targeting Ukrainian military personnel using the infrastructure and tools of other cybercrime groups shortly after it was found to have used the payloads of a Pakistani threat group to compromise South Asian organizations, according to media reports.
In January, Turla used the backdoor of Russian threat operation Storm-1837 to hack the Tavdig loader. In March and April, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team found that Turla then used Storm-1919’s Amadey botnet to spread the XMRig cryptominer. Turla “has been using footholds from third parties—either by surreptitiously stealing or purchasing access—as a specific and deliberate method to establish footholds of espionage value.
Nevertheless, Microsoft assesses that while this approach has some benefits that could lead more threat adversaries to use it, it is of less use against hardened networks, where good endpoint and network defenses enable the detection of activities of multiple threat adversaries for remediation,” said the report.
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