Threat Research

Joined March 2026
9 McNuggets & a McChicken burger helped us link a Russian hacker to 🇷🇺 government😅 Denis Obrezko was put on the international wanted listed by Russia, following an FBI arrest in Phuket last November. Our independent investigation shows Obrezko has closes ties to the Moscow👇
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Replying to @Huntio
@huntio Threat actor running automatic earning scripts for Litecoin & Solana 💸 (with goodies!) Let's take a look:
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i love @Huntio <3
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Establishing persistence via creation a SSH tunnel on port 80 Using @Huntio intelligence, we can see the port 80 SSH has been active since July 7th SSH-80-B28C99448F18AC8DC35214910E0BE900
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A gang stole more than 1,600 logins from Western trucking companies through a phishing website. 🚛 @ctrlaltintel and @beensquatted used OSINT Industries to trace it back to Russian logistics firms. Read how 👇 ctrlaltintel.com/research/Di…
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On @Huntio OpenDir 144.172[.]118[.]80:443 ⛏️ XMRig + ftrace rootkit src 🐚 PHP webshells (Magento paths) 💳 Skimmer hidden in a PNG 🦀 Rust implants posing as systemd-* Implant C2: update[.]ssl-certificate-verify[.]com Exfil: google-ad-analytics[.]com, gfhiko[.]xyz
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⚙️ Persistence Rootkit: klogd.ko → /etc/bL6qMsQz, loaded by /etc/init.d/bL6qMsQz + /etc/rc3.d/S55bL6qMsQz Miner: cron */50 runs /etc/kworker/kworker (/etc/cron.d/javae, /etc/crontab) → /etc/javae/javae Files chattr +ia, ps/top/pstree wrapped to grep out javae
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More information can be found here including some source code: portal.hunt.io/attackcapture…
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Have I Been Squatted registered аррӏө.com. It looks like Apple’s website address, but it’s a completely separate domain using different characters. We registered 20 lookalike .com domains in total as part of our latest research. Here’s what we found. 1/5 ⬇️
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Crosshair X RCE: SVG Injection via crosshair-x:// URI and Steam Workshop Fixed in 15.5.4 by the GOAT Graham from @CenterPointG fixed on the same day on a weekend while moving house 👑
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New blog: Russian and Allied Government Systems Compromised in Targeted Campaigns ❗️ Notable victims include: - Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations - Kyrgyz Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Syrian Government Customs dept. 🧵👇
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Case 3: A threat actor attempted to exploit Roundcube CVE-2025-49113 against Kyrgyz National Security Service (mail.gknb.gov.kg) Other known CVEs and public POCs were used by this threat actor to target Found via 89.124.123[.]216:8080 - @Huntio Link to full article 👇
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Interesting reporting by FIND on a OPSEC L from Armenian-linked cargo-theft threat actors deploying "GaloyanRAT" & an assortment of RMMs 500+ payloads were exposed on cloud storage, linked to targeting of carriers 🧵
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Payloads linked to campaign have been tracked by @smica83 @skocherhan @malwrhunterteam
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