Now the malware experts from Symantec reported Dragonfly targeted energy companies in Europe and the US, but with a substantial difference compared with past campaigns, this time the alleged state-sponsored hackers aimed to control or even sabotage operational systems at energy facilities. In 2014, security experts at Symantec uncoveredВ a new campaign targetingВ organizations located in the US, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, and Poland.ДЄfter the report went public in 2014, the DragonflyВ group went dark and appeared again in December 2015 when it launched cyber-attacks on Turkish energy companies that were also targeted during 2016. The US intelligence also believes the group is linked to the Kremlin, according to the JAR report published by the US Department of Homeland Security, Dragonfly was Russian APT actor working for the Government.Дragonfly gang conducted a cyber espionage campaign against energy grid operators, major electricity generation firms, petroleum pipeline operators, and energy industry industrial equipment providers. ENERGETIC BEAR is an actor with a Russian nexus that has been observed to target a variety of victims with a particular focus on the energy sector.вЂќ States the analysis published by the security firm CrowdStrike. This exploit document dropped the Havex RAT. вЂњIn mid-May 2014, a malicious document ( MD5 hash 16b4a8bcaf8c20b0786c97de1a943dc5) exploiting CVE-2014-1761 was identified, which is associated with an adversary tracked by CrowdStrike under the name ENERGETIC BEAR. The group was tracked by other security companies such as Kaspersky and CrowdStrike, this latter published a detailed report on the group in 2014, the document reference it as Energetic Bear and links to threat actor to Russia. Only in a second phase in early 2013, Dragonfly has focused its effort on US and European energy firms. The Dragonfly group was first spotted by Symantec in 2011 when it targeted defense and aviation companies in the US and Canada.

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