Rewterz Threat Alert – APT29 Cozy Bear aka Nobelium– Active IOCs

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

APT29 aka Nobelium and Cozy Bear are the group which were behind the infamous Solar Wind attacks in 2020. APT29 threat group has previously targeted commercial entities and government organizations in Germany, Uzbekistan, South Korea and the US, including the US State Department and the White House in 2014. They have also targeted several vaccine manufacturers in attempt to sabotage the process to combat the Coronavirus pandemic. This time they’ve come up with a current campaign to target government organizations in attempt to steal sensitive information.

Impact

• Information Theft and Espionage
• Exposure of Sensitive Data

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

• 39dea1689e5d03df4f7f5da318b21b1c
• 12de857551837131d5af6d16d535818f

SHA-256

• 220436bb35bee21899bf457e7b270aa44e6a664f641a2783d8fc2489b5125010
• 07a7f71b5cfa16bf673f64a4c97fc85c4606e95abe98d3c5b823defb6782dad5

SHA-1

• 5b92d09c83dcd82bab4f2fc8dba4cd0fe0ea2a49
• 88266fd5cb1144682c45524adf5af435275fc21b

Remediation

• Block all threat indicators at your respective controls.
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