{"id":190391,"date":"2024-05-30T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T01:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/cyber-espionage-alert-lilacsquid-targets-it-energy-and-pharma-sectors"},"modified":"2024-05-30T20:27:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T01:27:56","slug":"cyber-espionage-alert-lilacsquid-targets-it-energy-and-pharma-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/cyber-espionage-alert-lilacsquid-targets-it-energy-and-pharma-sectors","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Espionage Alert: LilacSquid Targets IT, Energy, and Pharma Sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cyber-espionage-alert-lilacsquid-targets-it-energy-and-pharma-sectors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A previously undocumented cyber espionage-focused threat actor named <strong>LilacSquid<\/strong> has been linked to targeted attacks spanning various sectors in the United States (U.S.), Europe, and Asia as part of a data theft campaign since at least 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe campaign is geared toward establishing long-term access to compromised victim organizations to enable LilacSquid to siphon data of interest to attacker-controlled servers,\u201d Cisco Talos researcher Asheer Malhotra <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.talosintelligence.com\/lilacsquid\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a new technical report published today.<\/p>\n<p>Targets include information technology organizations building software for the research and industrial sectors in the U.S, energy companies in Europe, and the pharmaceutical sector in Asia, indicating a broad victimology footprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A previously undocumented cyber espionage-focused threat actor named LilacSquid has been linked to targeted attacks spanning various sectors in the United States (U.S.), Europe, and Asia as part of a data theft campaign since at least 2021. \u201cThe campaign is geared toward establishing long-term access to compromised victim organizations to enable LilacSquid to siphon data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}