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No rest for the wicked HiatusRAT. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 28 October 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Danny Adamitis from Lumen's Black Lotus Labs sits down to discuss their work on "No Rest For The Wicked: HiatusRAT Takes Little Time Off In A Return To Action." Last March Lumen's Black Lotus Lab researchers discovered a novel malware called HiatusRAT that targeted business-grade routers. The research states "In the latest campaign, we observed a shift in reconnaissance and targeting activity; in June we observed reconnaissance against a U.S. military procurement system, and targeting of Taiwan-based organizations." This shift in information gathering and targeting preference exhibited in the latest campaign is synonymous with the strategic interest of the People’s Republic of China according to the 2023 ODNI threat assessment. The research can be found here: No Rest For The Wicked: HiatusRAT Takes Little Time Off In A Return To Action Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.

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I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking

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down the threats and vulnerabilities,

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solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

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Thanks for joining us. So over the last several months, we've continued to pursue a number of different router-based intrusions.

1:53.0

Aztec's kind of that weird nebulous area

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that doesn't really get covered very well by firewalls or EDRs,

1:59.0

but still poses a very significant threat

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to networks of our customers.

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That's Danny Animetus.

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He's a principal information security engineer with

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