Category: Sunucu Kurulumu

A newly discovered rootkit that we dub 'Moriya' is used by an unknown actor to deploy passive backdoors on public facing servers, facilitating the creation of a covert C&C communication channel through which they can be silently controlled. The victims are located in Africa, South and South-East Asia.

In terms of spam and phishing, in Q1 2021, we largely saw a continuation of the 2020 trends: exploitation of COVID-19 theme, hunting corporate account credentials and spoofing of online store websites.

This report highlights significant events related to advanced persistent threat (APT) activity observed in Q1 2021. The summaries are based on our threat intelligence research and provide a representative snapshot of what we have published and discussed in greater detail in our private APT reports.