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Darknet Diaries

89: Cybereason - Molerats in the Cloud

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.98.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

The threat research team at Cybereason uncovered an interesting piece of malware. Studied it and tracked it. Which lead them to believe they were dealing with a threat actor known as Molerats. Sponsors This episode is sponsored by Cybereason. Cybereason reverses the attacker’s advantage and puts the power back in your hands. Their future-ready attack platform gives defenders the wisdom to uncover, understand, and piece together multiple threats. And the precision focus to end cyberattacks instantly – on computers, mobile devices, servers, and the cloud. They do all this through a variety of tools they’ve developed such as antivirus software, endpoint monitoring, and mobile threat detection tools. They can give you the power to do it yourself, or they can do all the monitoring and respond to threats in your environment for you. Or you can call them after an incident to get help cleaning up. If you want to monitor your network for threats, check out what Cybereason can do for you. Cybereason. End cyber attacks. From endpoints to everywhere. Learn more at Cybereason.com/darknet. View all active sponsors. Sources https://www.cybereason.com/hubfs/dam/collateral/reports/Molerats-in-the-Cloud-New-Malware-Arsenal-Abuses-Cloud-Platforms-in-Middle-East-Espionage-Campaign.pdf https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/actor/molerats https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2013/08/operation-molerats-middle-east-cyber-attacks-using-poison-ivy.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there!

0:01.0

Did I surprise you?

0:02.0

I release episodes of this show every other week.

0:04.9

That's two episodes a month, right?

0:06.9

So why do we have an episode here in the off week?

0:10.1

Well, there's this company called Cyber Reason, who are big fans of this show, and they wanted

0:14.5

to bring you an extra episode.

0:17.2

So a deal was made, which means this entire episode is brought to you by Cyber Reason.

0:22.5

I've never done anything like this before, and so I want to be clear.

0:25.6

This episode is only here because Cyber Reason sponsored it.

0:29.2

But I'm excited because it's a fantastic story that links back to one of my most popular

0:33.4

episodes.

0:34.4

You're going to hear from their CEO, who has quite the backstory.

0:37.7

And later in the episode, we're going to hear a story from their threat research team,

0:41.2

who investigates and uncovers malicious activity.

0:44.0

And they'll tell us about a time when they found a threat actor lurking in someone's emails.

0:48.6

They spent months tracking that threat actor, which they called mole rats in the cloud.

0:58.6

These are true stories from the dark side of the internet.

1:05.1

I'm Jack Ricider.

1:07.9

This is Dark Net Diaries.

1:25.8

What for the show comes from CrowdStrike?

1:28.6

Is it me or does it feel like every other news story is about cyber attacks?

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