September 26, 2023 By Bill Toulas
A new APT hacking group named 'AtlasCross' targets organizations with phishing lures impersonating the American Red Cross to deliver backdoor malware.
Cybersecurity firm NSFocus identified two previously undocumented trojans, DangerAds and AtlasAgent, associated with attacks by the new APT group.
NSFocus reports that the AtlasCross hackers are sophisticated and evasive, preventing the researchers from determining their origin.
"After an in-depth study of the attack process, NSFOCUS Security Labs found that this APT attacker is quite different from known attacker characteristics in terms of execution flow, attack technology stack, attack tools, implementation details, attack objectives, behavior tendency and other main attribution indicators," explains NSFocus.
"The technical level and cautious attitude shown by this attacker during this activity are also worthy of attention."
