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F6 has reported a new wave of malicious emails associated with the Hive0117 group.
Hive0117 has been active since February 2022 and uses the DarkWatchman RAT Trojan . The group disguises its campaigns as messages from legitimate organizations, records email infrastructure and control domains, and sometimes repurposes them .
According to F6, DarkWatchman activity was detected on September 24, after several months of silence.
The attacks were carried out under the guise of the Federal Bailiff Service from the address mail@fssp[.]buzz. Similar mailings were observed in June and July. Analysis revealed the domains 4ad74aab[.]cfd and 4ad74aab[.]xyz.
The attacks targeted companies in Russia and Kazakhstan. The list of 51 targets included banks, telecommunications operators, marketplaces, logistics and manufacturing companies, car dealerships, construction companies, retailers, insurance and investment firms, fuel and energy companies, pharmaceutical companies, research institutes, a technology park, a municipal solid waste management operator, as well as services in the tourism, fitness, and IT sectors.
DarkWatchman was also distributed via mailings disguised as supposedly Department of Defense archives and fake subpoenas .
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