Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29

Threat Score:
76
AWS Security Blog
12 hours ago
Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29

Overview

Amazon disrupts watering hole campaign by Russia’s APT29 Amazon’s threat intelligence team has identified and disrupted a watering hole campaign conducted by APT29 (also known as Midnight Blizzard), a threat actor associated with Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Our investigation uncovered an opportunistic watering hole campaign using compromised websites to redirect visitors to malicious infrastructure designed to trick users into authorizing attacker-controlled devices through Micr...

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