Listen "Shedding light on fighting Ursa."
Episode Synopsis
Host of the CyberWire Daily podcast segment Threat Vector, David Moulton sits down with Mike "Siko" Sikorski from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 to discuss their research on "Fighting Ursa Aka APT28: Illuminating a Covert Campaign."
Unit 42 just published new threat intelligence on Fighting Ursa (aka APT28), a group associated with Russia's military intelligence, on how they are exploiting a Microsoft Outlook vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) to target organizations in NATO member countries, Ukraine, Jordan, and the UAE. These organizations are of strategic importance in defense, foreign affairs, economy, energy, transportation, and telecommunications.
The research can be found here:
Fighting Ursa Aka APT28: Illuminating a Covert Campaign
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Unit 42 just published new threat intelligence on Fighting Ursa (aka APT28), a group associated with Russia's military intelligence, on how they are exploiting a Microsoft Outlook vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) to target organizations in NATO member countries, Ukraine, Jordan, and the UAE. These organizations are of strategic importance in defense, foreign affairs, economy, energy, transportation, and telecommunications.
The research can be found here:
Fighting Ursa Aka APT28: Illuminating a Covert Campaign
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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