Researchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware
According to Kaspersky, a new campaign called PassiveNeuron is aimed at government, financial, and industrial entities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The Russian cybersecurity provider initially discovered the cyber espionage operation in November 2024 when it revealed a series of attacks targeting government organizations in East Asia and Latin America in June that used previously unheard-of malware families known as Neursite and NeuralExecutor.
Additionally, it stated that the operation was highly sophisticated and that the threat actors used internal servers that had already been compromised as an intermediary command-and-control (C2) infrastructure in order to evade detection.
According to Kaspersky at the time, the threat actor can travel laterally through the infrastru...