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While this threat activity appears to have started in mid-2019, Storm Cloud has been observed targeting Tibetan organizations since at least 2018. The attacks were launched at a very limited subset of visitors to over two dozen different Tibetan websites that Storm Cloud had managed to compromise. Kaspersky has noted they uncovered similar targeted attacks dating back to mid-2019. Unlike strategic web compromises of the past, this attack activity did not rely on or use exploits. Instead, the attackers relied on enticing targeted users to install an "update to Adobe Flash" by way of a JavaScript overlay on top of the legitimate compromised websites. 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Tibetan Focus of Highly Targeted Fake Flash Campaign</a></h2> <p class="post-date">March 31, 2020</p> <p class="post-byline">by Volexity Threat Research </p> <div class="post-content post-excerpt composition"><p>Beginning in May 2019, Volexity started tracking a new series of strategic web compromises that have been used in highly targeted attacks against Tibetan individuals and organizations by a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) actor it tracks as Storm Cloud. While this threat activity appears to have started in mid-2019, Storm Cloud has been observed targeting Tibetan organizations since at least 2018. The attacks were launched at a very limited subset of visitors to over two dozen different Tibetan websites that Storm Cloud had managed to compromise. Kaspersky has noted they uncovered similar targeted attacks dating back to mid-2019. Unlike strategic web compromises of the past, this attack activity did not rely on or use exploits. Instead, the attackers relied on enticing targeted users to install an “update to Adobe Flash” by way of a JavaScript overlay on top of the legitimate compromised websites. While there is no relation between […]</p> </div> <div class="blog-cta-contain"> <a class="box-cta" href="https://www.volexity.com/blog/2020/03/31/storm-cloud-unleashed-tibetan-community-focus-of-highly-targeted-fake-flash-campaign/">Read More</a> </div> </li> <li class="post-1547 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-threat-intelligence tag-apt tag-cve-2020-0688 tag-exchange tag-exploit tag-microsoft authortax-volexity-threat-research" id="post-1547" data-url="https://www.volexity.com/blog/2020/03/06/microsoft-exchange-control-panel-ecp-vulnerability-cve-2020-0688-exploited/" data-title="Microsoft Exchange Control Panel (ECP) Vulnerability CVE-2020-0688 Exploited"> <h2 class="post-title"><a href="https://www.volexity.com/blog/2020/03/06/microsoft-exchange-control-panel-ecp-vulnerability-cve-2020-0688-exploited/">Microsoft Exchange Control Panel (ECP) Vulnerability CVE-2020-0688 Exploited</a></h2> <p class="post-date">March 6, 2020</p> <p class="post-byline">by Volexity Threat Research </p> <div class="post-content post-excerpt composition"><p>On February 11, 2020, as part of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released cumulative updates and a service pack that addressed a remote code execution vulnerability found in Microsoft Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019. The vulnerability was discovered by an anonymous security researcher and reported to Microsoft by way of Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative. Two weeks after the security updates were released, the Zero Day Initiative published a blog post providing more details on the vulnerability. The post made it clear that an attacker could exploit a vulnerable Exchange server if the following three criteria were met: The Exchange Server had not been patched since February 11, 2020. The Exchange Control Panel (ECP) interface was accessible to the attacker. The attacker has a working credential that allows them to access the Exchange Control Panel in order to collect the ViewStateKey from the authenticated session cookie as well as the __VIEWSTATEGENERATOR […]</p> </div> <div class="blog-cta-contain"> <a class="box-cta" href="https://www.volexity.com/blog/2020/03/06/microsoft-exchange-control-panel-ecp-vulnerability-cve-2020-0688-exploited/">Read More</a> </div> </li> </ol> <div class="pagination"> <div class="pagination-prev"></div> <div class="pagination-next"></div> </div> </section> <aside class="sidebar col-sm-4"> <ul class="widgets"> <li class="widget widget_search"><div class="widget-content"><form role="search" method="get" class="search-form" action="https://www.volexity.com/"> <label> <span class="screen-reader-text">Search for:</span> <input type="search" class="search-field" placeholder="SEARCH" value="" name="s" title="Search for:" /> </label> <input type="submit" class="search-submit" value="Search" /> </form></div></li> <li 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