New Cyber Espionage Campaign Targets Tech, Government Entities

A newly discovered, sophisticated threat group has been targeting organizations in the government and technology industries based in the U.S., as well as the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, South Africa and Germany.

The espionage group, which has been active since at least 2020 and is called Earth Estries by Trend Micro researchers, has been infecting organizations’ internal servers in order to compromise administrative accounts. Then, the threat group uses a blend of Cobalt Strike deployments and the Server Message Block (SMB) …

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