Silence: Moving Into The Darkside
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Silence: Moving Into The Darkside

The first detailed report on the tactics and tools used by Silence

Background

In September 2018, Group-IB released Silence: Moving into the darkside, the first comprehensive technical report on the group’s attacks. The analysis remains the most complete source of technical information about the infrastructure and tools the cybercriminals used between June 2016 and April 2018.

Since that time, however, the geography of the group’s attacks, some of their tools, and other important elements characteristic of Silence have changed. Group-IB experts continuously monitor the cybercriminals’ activities and in August 2019 published Silence 2.0: Going global, an additional report about the threat actor’s evolution, tactical changes, and new targets.

A comprehensive technical analysis of Silence

For the first time in its history, Group-IB has made both reports publicly available with no registration needed, with the aim of helping researchers detect attacks at early stages and correctly attribute them. YARA and Suricata rules, however, are only available to Group‑IB Threat Intelligence customers.

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