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December 18, 2022

An intrusion carried out by the COBALT MIRAGE threat group leveraged the multi-functional Drokbk malware for persistence and to execute additional commands received from the command-and-control server. The actor took advantage of two Log4j vulnerabilities in a VMware Horizon server for initial access. To determine its C2 server, the malware used the dead drop resolver technique and legitimate Internet services.