Muddled Libra Shifts Focus to SaaS and Cloud for Extortion and Data Theft Attacks

Muddled Libra Shifts Focus to SaaS and Cloud for Extortion and Data Theft Attacks

April 15, 2024 at 09:39AM

The cyber threat actor “Muddled Libra” is targeting SaaS applications and cloud service provider environments to exfiltrate sensitive data. They leverage sophisticated techniques, such as social engineering and reconnaissance, to gain unauthorized access and utilize various tactics for data exfiltration. Their activities pose new challenges, requiring organizations to enhance their security measures.

Key takeaways from the meeting notes:

1. Muddled Libra, a threat actor group, is actively targeting SaaS applications and cloud service provider (CSP) environments to exfiltrate sensitive data.
2. They have leveraged sophisticated social engineering techniques and living off the land techniques to evade detection on victim networks.
3. Monetization methods include extortion through ransomware and data theft.
4. The group has been exploiting Okta and extensive reconnaissance techniques to gather intelligence about targeted organizations.
5. AWS and Microsoft Azure are specific cloud service providers being targeted, with a focus on extracting data from services like AWS IAM, S3, and Azure storage.
6. Data exfiltration is achieved through legitimate CSP services and features, as well as utilizing techniques like snapshot to move data out of the environment.
7. Organizations are advised to secure their identity portals with robust secondary authentication protections like hardware tokens or biometrics to counter Muddled Libra’s evolving tactics.

These key points summarize the main threats and tactics outlined in the meeting notes regarding Muddled Libra’s activities.

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