Threat Research

DarkSword is a sophisticated iOS full-chain exploit leveraging multiple zero-day vulnerabilities to fully compromise devices running iOS 18.4 to 18.7. Since late 2025, it has been used by commercial surveillance vendors and state-sponsored actors across campaigns targeting regions including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Ukraine....

APT28, a Russian state-sponsored threat group also known as Fancy Bear or UAC-0001, is conducting a sophisticated espionage campaign against European military and government entities. The operation primarily targets maritime and transportation organizations in Poland, Slovenia, Turkey, Greece, the UAE, and Ukraine....

Between February and September 2025, multiple credential-harvesting campaigns were attributed to BlueDelta, a Russian state-sponsored threat group linked to the GRU. These operations expand on BlueDelta’s ongoing credential-theft activity previously documented in Insikt Group’s December 2025 report. During 2025, BlueDelta targeted a limited but distinct set of victims....

Tangerine Turkey utilizes VBScript-based worms that propagate laterally through removable media such as USB drives. The group relies on living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins), including wscript.exe and printui.exe, to execute payloads and maintain persistence. To evade detection, they alter registry settings and disguise malicious executables as legitimate system files....

UDPGangster is a UDP-based backdoor linked to the MuddyWater threat group, active in cyber-espionage across the Middle East. It enables remote control of infected systems, supporting command execution, file exfiltration, and payload delivery over stealthy UDP channels. Recent campaigns have targeted users in Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan....

On November 18, 2024, TA397 (also known as Bitter) targeted a defense sector organization in Turkey with a spearphishing email. The email included a RAR archive containing a decoy PDF (~tmp.pdf), a malicious LNK file disguised as a PDF (PUBLIC INVESTMENTS PROJECTS 2025.pdf.lnk), and an Alternate Data Stream (ADS) file with embedded PowerShell code....