Storm-2561

Storm-2561 is a cybercriminal threat actor known for a credential theft campaign that employs SEO poisoning to distribute fake VPN clients. The campaign redirects users to malicious ZIP files containing digitally signed trojans that harvest VPN credentials, leveraging user trust in search engine results. The malicious components are signed by “Taiyuan Lihua Near Information Technology Co., Ltd.” and were hosted on GitHub repositories that have since been taken down. This operation exhibits characteristics consistent with financially motivated cybercrime.

Bu aktör hakkında yayımlanmış raporlar:

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/03/12/storm-2561-uses-seo-poisoning-to-distribute-fake-vpn-clients-for-credential-theft/

Kaynak: MISP Galaxy, Malpedia.