Strategic titles point to something more than a commodity campaign. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 10 April 2021

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Guests Gage Mele, Winston Marydasan, and Yury Polozov from Anomali join Dave to discuss their research into Static Kitten targeting government agencies in the UAE and Kuwait. Anomali Threat Research uncovered malicious activity very likely attributed to the Iran-nexus cyberespionage group, Static Kitten (Seedworm, MERCURY, Temp.Zagros, POWERSTATS, NTSTATS, MuddyWater), which is known to target numerous sectors primarily located in the Middle East This new campaign, which uses tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) consistent with previous Static Kitten activity, uses ScreenConnect launch parameters designed to target any MOFA with mfa[.]gov as part of the custom field. Anomali's team found samples specifically masquerading as the Kuwaiti government and the UAE National Council respectively, based on references in the malicious samples. The research can be found here: Probable Iranian Cyber Actors, Static Kitten, Conducting Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting UAE and Kuwait Government Agencies 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 CyberWires Research Saturday.
1:25.6	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts
1:30.3	tracking down threats and vulnerabilities,
1:32.6	solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves
1:35.8	in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:38.2	Thanks for joining us. So we were doing some routine intelligence collections and it turned out that Winston and I were looking at the same sample, but we didn't realize it.
1:55.6	We had a pretty good laugh and then we realized, hey, this is something that is worth our time to see what else is unfolding.
2:03.0	Joining us this week are three researchers from security firm Anomaly, Gage Mealy, Winston
2:09.2	Maritison, and Yuri Paulazon. The research we're discussing today is titled probable Iranian cyber actors,
2:16.7	static kitten, conducting cyber espionage campaign targeting UAE and Kuwait government agencies.
2:25.0	You can sense to glory. If this is started something.
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