SOUTH KOREAN ORGANIZATIONS TARGETED BY COBALT STRIKE ‘CAT' DELIVERED BY A RUST BEACON

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Researchers found server hosting tools for cyber attacks on South Korean entities, notably using Cobalt Strike Cat. The attacker targeted government and commercial organizations with open-source tools like SQLMap and Web-SurvivalScan. The malware campaign utilized Rust-compiled loaders and a modified Cobalt Strike for post-exploitation.