Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2026
China-linked FishMonger used two SprySOCKS Windows variants that leveraged kernel drivers and the Print Spooler to target governments in four countries. ESET researchers have found two previously undocumented Windows versions of SprySOCKS, a backdoor that the security community had until now treated as Linux-only. Trend Micro first documented the Linux variant in September 2023 and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2024
The Chinese-speaking threat actor Earth Lusca used the new backdoor KTLVdoor in an attack against a trading company in China. Trend Micro Researchers spotted the Chinese-speaking threat actor Earth Lusca using a new multiplatform backdoor called KTLVdoor. The Earth Lusca group has been active since at least the first half of 2023, it primarily targeted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2023
China-linked threat actor Earth Lusca used a new Linux malware dubbed SprySOCKS in a recent cyber espionage campaign. Researchers from Trend Micro, while monitoring the activity of the China-linked threat actor Earth Lusca, discovered an encrypted file hosted on a server under the control of the group. Additional analysis led to the discovery of a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2022
A sophisticated threat actor, tracked as Earth Lusca, is targeting government and private organizations worldwide as for financial purposes. Trend Micro researchers spotted an elusive threat actor, called Earth Lusca, that targets organizations worldwide via spear-phishing and watering hole attacks. According to the security firm, the group is financially motivated, its cyberespionage campaign hit high value […]
