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iTWire - Google team finds second website targeting infosec researchers


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Thursday, 01 April 2021 09:34
Google team finds second website targeting infosec researchers
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A campaign targeting security researchers, initially unearthed in January, has set up a new website in March to continue the attempt to target these professionals.
Adam Weidemann, a researcher with Google s Threat Analysis Group, said the new site was for a fake company called SecuriElite located in Turkey which claimed to offer offensive security services like pentesting, software security assessments and exploits.
Researchers who had been targeted during the initial campaign reported that the PGP key hosted on the attacker s blog lured them to the site where a browser exploit was located. ....

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Hackers Set Up a Fake Cybersecurity Firm to Target Security Experts


Hackers Set Up a Fake Cybersecurity Firm to Target Security Experts
A North Korean government-backed campaign targeting cybersecurity researchers with malware has re-emerged with new tactics in their arsenal as part of a fresh social engineering attack.
In an update shared on Wednesday, Google s Threat Analysis Group said the attackers behind the operation set up a fake security company called SecuriElite and a slew of social media accounts across Twitter and LinkedIn in an attempt to trick unsuspecting researchers into visiting the company s booby-trapped website where a browser exploit was waiting to be triggered.
The new website claims the company is an offensive security company located in Turkey that offers pentests, software security assessments and exploits, TAG s Adam Weidemann said. The website is said to have gone live on March 17. ....

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N. Korean hackers targeting security researchers with fake social media accounts


The website had a link to the hackers’ PGP public key at the bottom of the page. Early this year, researchers reported that the PGP key hosted on the attacker’s blog acted as the lure to visit the site where a browser exploit was waiting to be triggered.
Google researchers said they hadn’t seen this new fake website serving malicious content but have added it to Google Safebrowsing as a precaution.
The hackers set up several social media accounts to pose as fellow security researchers interested in exploitation and offensive security. Researchers said that on LinkedIn, two accounts were identified as impersonating recruiters for antivirus and security companies. Since then, these profiles have been reported to the relevant social media companies to take appropriate action. ....

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