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Web host havoc: Unveiling the Manic Menagerie campaign. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Assaf Dahan and Daniel Frank from Palo Alto Networks Cortex sit down with Dave to talk about their research "Manic Menagerie 2.0: The Evolution of a Highly Motivated Threat Actor." From late 2020 to late 2022, Unit 42 researchers discovered an active campaign that targeted several web hosting and IT providers in the United States and European Union. The research states "They have further deepened their foothold in victims’ environments by mass deployment of web shells, which granted them sustained access, as well as access to internal resources of the compromised websites." The research can be found here: Manic Menagerie 2.0: The Evolution of a Highly Motivated Threat Actor 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.

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So our journey begins pretty much at late 2022, so back at the time we were conducting a really thorough hunting project.

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We were looking into all sorts of web exploitation

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conducted by a myriad of threat actors where we stumbled upon this really

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interesting anomalous behavior and that kind of started this whole quest that we embarked on.

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That's Asaf da Han, director of threat research at Palo Alto networks.

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Also joining us is Daniel Frank, principal threat researcher at Palo Alto.

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