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Shedding light on fighting Ursa. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 16 December 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Host of the CyberWire Daily podcast segment Threat Vector, David Moulton sits down with Mike "Siko" Sikorski from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 to discuss their research on "Fighting Ursa Aka APT28: Illuminating a Covert Campaign." Unit 42 just published new threat intelligence on Fighting Ursa (aka APT28), a group associated with Russia's military intelligence, on how they are exploiting a Microsoft Outlook vulnerability (CVE-2023-23397) to target organizations in NATO member countries, Ukraine, Jordan, and the UAE. These organizations are of strategic importance in defense, foreign affairs, economy, energy, transportation, and telecommunications. The research can be found here: Fighting Ursa Aka APT28: Illuminating a Covert Campaign 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.

1:40.2

Thanks for joining us. Today on research Saturday,

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our Threat Vector host David Moulton is bringing us an exclusive interview with Unit 42's Michael Sikorsky to discuss

1:56.4

Russian APT fighting Ursa, otherwise known as APT 28, a group linked to Russia's military intelligence exploiting a previously unknown

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vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook.

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The conversation focuses on the intricacies of these campaigns, the nature of the targeted organizations and the broader implications of

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such a pervasive cyber threat. I'm here with Mike Sikosikorsky, the CTO and VP of engineering for

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Unit 42 to talk about new threat intelligence on fighting Ursa, aka APT 28, a group associated with

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