Threat Landscape Update on Grandoreiro and Luna Tempest
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast
Challenges in disrupting financially motivated threat actors
The chapter delves into the difficulties of combating financially motivated threat actors who excel in evading detection and adapting quickly, focusing on their use of volume, scale, and stealth to profit, particularly in activities like banking trojans. It introduces Luna Tempest, a new extortion-based threat group tracked by Microsoft, primarily operating in the US and the UK, discussing the emergence of US-based threat actors within the cybercrime landscape and their aggressive behavior towards victims and incident responders.
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