The art of information gathering. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 20 April 2024

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Summary

Greg Lesnewich, senior threat researcher at Proofpoint, sits down to discuss "From Social Engineering to DMARC Abuse: TA427’s Art of Information Gathering." Since 2023, TA427 has directly solicited foreign policy experts for their opinions on nuclear disarmament, US-ROK policies, and sanction topics via benign conversation starting emails. The research states "While our researchers have consistently observed TA427 rely on social engineering tactics and regularly rotating its email infrastructure, in December 2023 the threat actor began to abuse lax Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) policies to spoof various personas and, in February 2024, began incorporating web beacons for target profiling." The research can be found here: From Social Engineering to DMARC Abuse: TA427’s Art of Information Gathering Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:57.8	So this group is, to be totally honest with you, one that I inherited and has been tracked in you know our space that call it the vendor threat research space since roughly 2017 but probably going back further than that.
2:05.0	That's Greg Lesnowich, senior threat researcher at Proofpoint.
2:09.0	The research we're discussing today is titled,
2:11.5	From Social Engineering to Denmark Abuse, discussing today is titled from social engineering to Demark abuse.
2:14.4	T.A. 427's Art of Information Gathering. And you can sort of think about it as the West team or the cluster of activity
2:30.3	you know from the Kimsuki umbrella if we want to use that term that targets people like
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