Creating PANDA-monium. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 8 July 2023

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Thomas Etheridge from CrowdStrike sits down to discuss their work on "Business as Usual: Falcon Complete MDR Thwarts Novel VANGUARD PANDA (Volt Typhoon) Tradecraft" In May of 2023, industry and government sources detailed China-nexus activity where they found the threat actor dubbed Volt Typhoon targeted U.S. based critical infrastructure entities. CrowdStrike's Intelligence team tracked this actor as VANGUARD PANDA. With CISA’s advisory on VANGUARD PANDA and its link to Chinese adversaries who are increasingly targeting US businesses and critical infrastructure, CrowdStrike’s blog dives deeper into the risks of VANGUARD PANDA. The research says "One specific VANGUARD PANDA incident stands out to review in detail. Falcon Complete responded to a detection that was triggered by suspicious reconnaissance commands executed under an Apache Tomcat web server running ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus." The research can be found here: Business as Usual: Falcon Complete MDR Thwarts Novel VANGUARD PANDA (Volt Typhoon) Tradecraft Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.7	Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.
1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking
1:32.2	down the threats and vulnerabilities,
1:34.3	solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:40.2	Thanks for joining us. It all started with deployment of our technology at a net new customer opportunity.
1:54.5	So in the process of deploying the technology,
1:58.4	our threat hunters uncovered some hands-on-keyboard activity that we soon attributed to Vanguard Panda.
2:09.1	That's Thomas Etheridge.
2:10.4	He's Chief Global Professional Services Officer at Crowd Strike.
2:14.0	The research we're discussing today is titled Businesses usual.
2:18.0	Falcon Complete MDR Thwarts novel Vanguard Panda Tradecraft.
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