Threat actors

Operation DustySky – Part 2 is a follow-up on our DustySky operation report from January 2016. It analyses new attacks by Molerats against targets in Israel, The United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and The Palestinian Authority. We elaborate on the scope and targeting of the DustySky campaign and expose new infrastructure and […]

DustySky (called “NeD Worm” by its developer) is a multi-stage malware in use since May 2015. It is in use by the Molerats (aka Gaza cybergang), a politically motivated group whose main objective, we believe, is intelligence gathering.  Operating since 2012, the group’s activity has been reported by Norman [1], Kaspersky[2] [3], FireEye[4], and PwC[5]. This […]

CopyKittens is an espionage group that has been attacking Israeli targets since at least August 2014. Among the targets are high ranking diplomats at Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and well-known Israeli academic researchers specializing in Middle East Studies. Matryoshka is the name we gave the malware built by CopyKittens. It is a multi-stage framework, with each […]