Billbug infests government agencies. [Research Saturday]

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Brigid O. Gorman from Symantec's Threat Hunter Team joins Dave to discuss their report "Billbug - State-sponsored Actor Targets Cert Authority and Government Agencies in Multiple Asian Countries." The team has discovered that state-sponsored actors compromised a digital certificate authority in an Asian country during a campaign in which multiple government agencies were also targeted. The research states they believe Billbug, which is a long-established advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been active since about 2009. They say "In activity documented by Symantec in 2019, we detailed how the group was using a backdoor known as Hannotog (Backdoor.Hannotog) and another backdoor known as Sagerunex (Backdoor.Sagerunex). Both these tools were also seen in this more recent activity." The research can be found here: Billbug: State-sponsored Actor Targets Cert Authority, Government Agencies in Multiple Asian Countries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,
1:34.1	solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:39.7	Thanks for joining us. Bill book does have quite a long history, so that activity should be published on in 2018,
1:53.1	that concern Bill Bug at that time
1:55.0	it was targeting organizations in the communications,
1:59.4	the geospatial imaging and defense sectors
2:01.8	primarily in Southeast Asia. and that's really a
2:04.8	hallmark I would say a bill book in general. That's Bridget O Gorman. She's a
2:10.0	senior intelligence analyst at Symantec's threat hunter team.
2:14.0	The research we're discussing today is titled Bill Bug,
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