@BushidoToken Threat Intel

  In 1937, one of the world’s most authoritative art historians, Abraham Bredius, was approached by a lawyer on behalf of a Dutch family estate to inspect a painting of a Christ and the Disciples at Emmaus (pictured above). Bredius dedicated many years of his life studying the artwork of Johannes Vermeer. After inspecting the painting, he wrote that it is not only a Vermeer, but one the greatest pieces Vermeer ever created. Han Van Meegeren, a mediocre Dutch artist, had in fact forged the work of Vermeer. The above piece was sold during WWII to Nazi Field-Mashal Hermann Goering. Van Meegeren was charged as a Nazi collaborator, but claimed he was national hero. This was because he traded the forgery for 200 original Dutch paintings seized by Goering at the beginning of the war.  To fool Abraham Bredius, the 83 year old art historian whose words were taken as gospel, Van Meegeren had to lay as many clues (or false flags) as he could. This involved making a new painting look like...

  Sophisticated computer security breaches in some of the most heavily defended networks around the world have been orchestrated by so-called Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) groups. Many of these APTs operate on behalf of a nation state’s intelligence agency or military. They can even be private sector hacking groups, hired for specific operations. An APT group specialises in gaining access, maintaining it, and executing post-exploitative activities while remaining undiscovered. There are also many types of APT attack campaigns. This can include, but is not limited to, intelligence gathering operations, intellectual property theft, sabotage and data destruction, and exploitation for financial gain. Intelligence gathering, cyber-espionage One such APT that exemplifies this type of behaviour is known as the Naikon APT group. In May 2020, Check Point disclosed new evidence of an ongoing cyber-espionage campaign against several national government entities in the Asia Pacific (APAC) ...