{ "id": "a655df80-e4cc-4872-97b1-ad844837a74b", "created_at": "2026-04-06T00:18:09.723415Z", "updated_at": "2026-04-10T13:12:33.160232Z", "deleted_at": null, "sha1_hash": "2cdb547c9add107fce36d99d7821f80024c756a7", "title": "TA505 hacking crew spent much of 2019 trying to breach South Korea’s financial sector", "llm_title": "", "authors": "", "file_creation_date": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "file_modification_date": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "file_size": 36129, "plain_text": "TA505 hacking crew spent much of 2019 trying to breach South\r\nKorea’s financial sector\r\nBy Jeff Stone\r\nPublished: 2020-02-28 · Archived: 2026-04-05 16:53:39 UTC\r\nA gang of hackers with a long history of financially motivated attacks increased its targeting of businesses in\r\nSouth Korea last year, using a combination of malicious attachments and ransomware to haunt victims, according\r\nto new findings.\r\nResearchers from the Financial Security Institute, which is similar to an information sharing and analysis center\r\n(ISAC) for South Korea’s financial sector, said on Friday that the hacking group spent much of 2019 trying to\r\nphish enterprises in finance, manufacturing and medical services in South Korea.\r\nThe group, known as TA505, has been active since at least 2014, and appears to share tools, techniques and\r\nprocedures with FIN7, a Russian-speaking group blamed for more than a billion dollars in global losses,\r\nresearchers say. Linking FIN7 and TA505 is a notoriously difficult task, and researchers have confused the groups\r\nbefore.\r\nTA505 is perhaps best known for its reported connection to the Dridex banking trojan, which enables attackers to\r\nsteal banking credentials, and the Locky ransomware strain, which has targeted victims since 2016. Like FIN7,\r\nTA505 also is a Russian-speaking group, according to previous reports, and previously sent thousands of\r\nmalicious emails to bank employees in the U.S., United Arab Emirates and Singapore, email security firm\r\nProofpoint said last year.\r\nThe Financial Security Institute said Friday that many of the phishing emails TA505 sent throughout South Korea\r\nincluded malicious Microsoft Excel documents, and often relied on the “FlawedAmmyy” malware.\r\nFlawedAmmyy is a remote access trojan, meaning it gives attackers control over an infected machine without a\r\nvictim’s knowledge. From there, they can monitor a user’s activity and collect their usernames and passwords.\r\nThe analysis of 612,021 phishing emails from between February and December last year showed that 81% of the\r\nmessages were sent on weekdays, mostly Thursday (25.7%) and Wednesday (24.5%). For researchers, the timing\r\n“indicates that the group figures out the most vulnerable time slot of Korean users.” They also found a phishing\r\npage which masqueraded as an Apple log-in portal, an apparent indication that TA505 also aimed to steal data\r\nfrom Korean customers of the U.S. technology company.\r\nTA505 also used a ransomware strain called Rapid, a new technique for the group, according to the Financial\r\nSecurity Institute. “Rapid” appeared in just one case, which also involved a malicious Excel file. “This can be [a]\r\none-short time use of Rapid ransomware,” researchers wrote. “But we need to keep track of it in case they use it\r\nfor a longer campaign.”\r\nCyberScoop has independently verified the Financial Security Institute’s findings with external researchers.\r\nhttps://www.cyberscoop.com/ta505-south-korea-bank-phishing/\r\nPage 1 of 2\n\nSource: 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