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สำนักงานพัฒนาธุรกรรมทางอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ Electronic Transactions Development Agency |
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สำนักงานพัฒนาธุรกรรมทางอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ Electronic Transactions Development Agency |
APT group: CostaRicto| Names | CostaRicto (BlackBerry) | |
| Country | [Unknown] | |
| Motivation | Financial gain | |
| First seen | 2017 | |
| Description | (BlackBerry) During the past six months, the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence team have been monitoring a cyber-espionage campaign that is targeting disparate victims around the globe. The campaign, dubbed CostaRicto by BlackBerry, appears to be operated by “hackers-for-hire”, a group of APT mercenaries who possess bespoke malware tooling and complex VPN proxy and SSH tunnelling capabilities. Mercenary groups offering APT-style attacks are becoming more and more popular. Their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) often resemble highly sophisticated state-sponsored campaigns, but the profiles and geography of their victims are far too diverse to be aligned with a single bad actor’s interests. Although in theory the customers of a mercenary APT might include anyone who can afford it, the more sophisticated actors will naturally choose to work with patrons of the highest profile – be it large organizations, influential individuals, or even governments. Having a lot at stake, the cybercriminals must choose very carefully when selecting their commissions to avoid the risk of being exposed. | |
| Observed | Countries: Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, China, Czech, France, India, Mozambique, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, USA. | |
| Tools used | CostaBricks, nmap, PowerSploit, PsExec, SombRAT. | |
| Information | <https://blogs.blackberry.com/en/2020/11/the-costaricto-campaign-cyber-espionage-outsourced> | |
| AlienVault OTX | <https://otx.alienvault.com/browse/pulses?q=tag:CostaRicto> | |
Last change to this card: 07 January 2021
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