New ‘Curly COMrades’ APT Using NGEN COM Hijacking in Georgia, Moldova Attacks The Hacker [email protected] (The Hacker News)

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Curly COMrades has been observed targeting entities in Georgia and Moldova as part of a cyber espionage campaign designed to facilitate long-term access to target networks.
“They repeatedly tried to extract the NTDS database from domain controllers — the primary repository for user password hashes and authentication data in a Windows network,” A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Curly COMrades has been observed targeting entities in Georgia and Moldova as part of a cyber espionage campaign designed to facilitate long-term access to target networks.
“They repeatedly tried to extract the NTDS database from domain controllers — the primary repository for user password hashes and authentication data in a Windows network,” 

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