APT Group Upgrades Malware from the Black Market into Dangerous Backdoor

  • 10 December 2015
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By Catalin Cimpanu    10 Dec 2015
 
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Cyber-espionage group targeted companies in Asia

 
Details about the operations of a new cyber-espionage group are emerging, and this gang has been buying malware from the black market and evolving it into powerful and undetectable backdoors.
 
The group, dubbed Shrouded Crossbow by Trend Micro's researchers, has been extremely active since 2010, when the first signs of their existence could be traced, and they heavily targeted both the private and the public sectors of many Asian countries.
 
Digging deep into data from the group's operations, security researchers found many clues that led them to believe that, at one point, the organization bought the BIFROSE (or Bifrost) malware from underground marketplaces.
 
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