Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets

Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and Stealth Against High-Value Targets | Trend Micro (US) APT & Targeted Attacks

Pawn Storm Uses Brute Force and

Stealth Against High-Value Targets

To help defenders learn more about Pawn Storm's activities and adjust their defenses, we offer a technical analysis of some of the threat actor's recent and updated techniques. By: Feike Hacquebord, Fernando Merces

January 31, 2024

Read time: 10 min (2768 words)

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Introduction

Pawn Storm (also known as APT28 and Forest Blizzard) is an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor that shows incessant and lasting repetitions in its tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Some of the group’s campaigns involve using the same kind of technical tricks repeatedly, sometimes targeting hundreds of peo…