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UNG0002 Targets Chinese Universities with Cobalt Strike
1+ week, 1+ day ago (346+ words) SOC Prime SOC Prime Bias: Critical NG0002 Targets Chinese Academia with Weaponized Institutional Lures A threat actor tracked as UNG0002 launched a spear-phishing campaign against Chinese universities using a malicious ZIP archive disguised as an official fitness testing notice. Inside the archive…...
SHub Reaper Targets mac OS with Fake Brand Installers
1+ week, 3+ day ago (317+ words) SOC Prime SOC Prime Bias: Medium SHub Reaper | mac OS Stealer Spoofs Apple, Google, and Microsoft in a Single Attack Chain The report analyzes a new mac OS infostealer variant called SHub Reaper, which uses fake We Chat and Miro…...
Pure Logs Delivered via Paws Runner Steganography
1+ week, 5+ day ago (400+ words) SOC Prime SOC Prime Bias: Medium Pure Logs Delivered Through Paws Runner Steganography The campaign relies on a phishing email carrying a TXZ archive that delivers a Java Script loader, which sets environment variables and launches conhost. exe in headless…...
Iranian-Nexus Campaign Hits Omani Government Ministries
3+ week, 2+ day ago (293+ words) SOC Prime SOC Prime Bias: Critical Iranian-Nexus Attack Exposes 26, 000 Citizen Records in Oman A state-aligned Iranian threat actor compromised multiple government ministries in Oman by using webshells, Proxy Shell exploits, and a custom command-and-control environment hosted on a UAE-based VPS....
SHADOW-EARTH-053 Targets Exchange Servers in Asia
3+ week, 4+ day ago (460+ words) SOC Prime SOC Prime Bias: Critical Business search APT & Targeted Attacks Inside Shadow-Earth-053: A China-Aligned Cyberespionage Campaign Against Government and Defense Sectors in Asia A China-aligned threat cluster tracked as SHADOW-EARTH-053 has been exploiting unpatched Microsoft Exchange and IIS servers…...
DYNOWIPER Wiper Hits Poland Energy Sites via Forti Gate
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (350+ words) SOC Prime SOC Prime Bias: Critical DYNOWIPER: Destructive Malware Targeting Poland's Energy Sector In late December 2025, a coordinated destructive campaign struck Poland's energy infrastructure, compromising at scale more than thirty renewable sites and a large combined heat and power plant....
Pakistan Linked APT Targets India with Git Hub C2 Tools
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (469+ words) Technical analysis of two campaigns (Gopher Strike and Sheet Attack) attributed to a Pakistan-linked APT targeting Indian government entities. The activity uses Golang tooling (GOGITTER, GITSHELLPAD, GOSHELL) to deliver payloads via spear-phishing PDFs and malicious ISO files, leverages private Git…...
Safe Pay Ransomware: Centralized Double-Extortion Group
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (458+ words) SOC Prime SOC Prime Bias: High Inside Safe Pay: Analyzing the New Centralized Ransomware Group Safe Pay is a recently surfaced ransomware operation that appears to run as a tightly controlled, centralized group rather than a typical Ransomware-as-a-Service ecosystem. The…...