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The malicious YoroTrooper in disguise. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 18 November 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Asheer Malhotra from Cisco Talos discussing their research and findings on "Kazakhstan-associated YoroTrooper disguises origin of attacks as Azerbaijan." Cisco Talos' research team, released research attributing the work of the espionage-focused threat actor, YoroTrooper, to individuals based in Kazakhstan. The research states "YoroTrooper attempts to obfuscate the origin of their operations, employing various tactics to make its malicious activity appear to emanate from Azerbaijan, such as using VPN exit nodes local to that region." They also found that the YoroTrooper continues to rely heavily on phishing emails that direct victims to credential harvesting sites. The research can be found here: Kazakhstan-associated YoroTrooper disguises origin of attacks as Azerbaijan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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

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for joining us. So we've been tracking Eurotrover for quite some time.

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Now, this is a APD group that has been active since at least

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2022 so about two years now. That's a sheer malholtra technical lead for security

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research with Cisco Telos. The research we're discussing today is

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titled Kazakhstan Associated Eurotrooper disguises origin of attacks as Azerbaijan. And this is our second piece of research that we've released on Eurotrooper this year. About six or seven

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months ago in March 2023, we wrote the first paper on Eurotrooper and that is how this second piece of research came into being.

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