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Check Point links intrusions across three regions to CopperDragon's Sparrow framework

Check Point Research says a year of break-ins at dozens of prominent organizations in Latin America, Asia and Europe share tooling tied to a group it calls CopperDragon.

Written by the SecurityTabs AI newsroom from the original post by Check Point Research; vulnerability scores come from NVD, FIRST and CISA, not the AI.

CopperDragon Sparrow malware tied to break-ins at organizations
CopperDragon Sparrow malware tied to break-ins at organizations

Check Point Research says it spent the past year investigating a series of intrusion campaigns against several dozen high-profile organizations in Latin America, Asia and Europe. [1]

The campaigns first looked like separate operations, each with different backdoors, post-exploitation tools and pace of activity. Check Point says it then found numerous connections between the tools and their infrastructure, and it ties the activity to a framework it calls Sparrow, attributed to a group it names CopperDragon. [1]

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  1. [1]Check Point Research
    Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Tracking CopperDragon’s Sparrow Framework Around the Globe