Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (Office 365 ATP) blocked many notable zero-day exploits in 2017. In our analysis, one activity group stood out: NEODYMIUM. This threat actor is remarkable for two reasons:
- Its access to sophisticated zero-day exploits for Microsoft and Adobe software
- Its use of an advanced piece of government-grade surveillance spyware FinFisher, also known as FinSpy and detected by Microsoft security products as Wingbird
FinFisher is such a complex piece of malware that, like other researchers, we had to devise special methods to crack it.
Updated Mar 01, 2018
Version 3.0Louie Mayor
Microsoft
Joined August 30, 2017
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