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	"title": "The Gaza cybergang and its SneakyPastes campaign",
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	"plain_text": "The Gaza cybergang and its SneakyPastes campaign\r\nBy Kaspersky Team\r\nPublished: 2019-04-10 · Archived: 2026-04-05 14:51:12 UTC\r\nAt our Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit (SAS) conference we traditionally speak about APT attacks: It was\r\nthere that we first published info about Slingshot, Carbanak, and Careto. Targeted attacks are running as high as\r\never, and this year was no exception: At SAS 2019 in Singapore we spoke about an APT criminal group called the\r\nGaza cybergang.\r\nRich armory\r\nThe Gaza cybergang specializes in cyberespionage, with its campaign mostly limited to the Middle East and\r\ncountries in central Asia. At the center of its focus are politicians, diplomats, journalists, activists, and the region’s\r\nother politically active citizens.\r\nIn terms of the number of attacks we registered from January 2018 through January 2019, the targets located\r\nwithin the Palestinian territories were very comfortably in the lead. Quite a few infection attempts also fell on\r\nJordan, Israel, and Lebanon. In its attacks, the gang uses methods and tools of varying complexity degrees.\r\nOur experts have identified three subgroups in the cybergang. We have already covered two of those. One was the\r\nauthor of the Desert Falcons campaign, and the other was behind the tailored attacks known as Operation\r\nParliament.\r\nNow it’s time to talk about the third, which we call MoleRATs. The group is armed with relatively simple tools,\r\nbut that doesn’t make its SneakyPastes campaign (named for its active use of pastebin.com) less dangerous.\r\nSneakyPastes\r\nThe campaign is multistage. It begins with phishing, using letters from one-time addresses and one-time domains.\r\nSometimes the letters contain links to malware or infected attachments. If the victim executes the attached file (or\r\nfollows the link), their device receives Stage One malware programmed to activate the infection chain.\r\nThe letters, meant to quiet the reader’s vigilance, are mostly about politics. They are either records of political\r\nnegotiations or addresses from some credible organizations.\r\nOnce Stage One malware is safely onboard the computer, it tries to secure its position, conceal its presence from\r\nany antivirus products, and hide the command server.\r\nThe attackers use public services (pastebin.com, github.com, mailimg.com, upload.cat, dev-point.com, and\r\npomf.cat) for subsequent stages of the attack (including malware delivery) and, most important, for\r\ncommunication with the command server. Typically, they use several methods simultaneously to deliver the\r\nextracted information.\r\nhttps://www.kaspersky.com/blog/gaza-cybergang/26363/\r\nPage 1 of 2\n\nFinally, the device gets infected with RAT malware, which offers powerful capabilities. Among other things, it can\r\nfreely download and upload files, launch applications, search for documents, and encrypt information.\r\nThe malware scans the victim’s computer to locate all PDF, DOC, DOCX, and XLSX files, saves them to\r\ntemporary file folders, classifies, archives, and encrypts them, and finally sends them to a command server via a\r\nchain of domains.\r\nIn fact, we detect multiple tools used in this kind of attack. You can learn more about them and get more technical\r\ndetails from this post on Securelist.\r\nIntegrated protection against integrated threats\r\nOur products are made to successfully combat the components used in the SneakyPastes campaign. To avoid being\r\namong its victims, follow these tips.\r\nTeach your employees to recognize dangerous letters, both mass and targeted ones; Gaza cybergang attacks\r\nbegin with phishing. Our interactive Kaspersky ASAP platform not only provides that information but also\r\nimparts the necessary skills.\r\nUse integrated solutions built to stand up to complex and multistage attacks that may be too tough for basic\r\nantivirus products. To resist attacks at the network level, we recommend a bundle consisting of Kaspersky\r\nAnti Targeted Attack and Kaspersky Endpoint Detection and Response.\r\nIf your company employs a dedicated information security service, we recommend you subscribe to\r\nKaspersky Lab’s closed reports, where we give detailed accounts of current cyberthreats. You can purchase\r\na subscription by writing to intelreports@kaspersky.com\r\nSource: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/gaza-cybergang/26363/\r\nhttps://www.kaspersky.com/blog/gaza-cybergang/26363/\r\nPage 2 of 2",
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