Number: AL21-002
Date: 15 February 2021
AUDIENCE
This Alert is intended for IT professionals and managers of notified organizations.
PURPOSE
An Alert is used to raise awareness of a recently identified cyber threat that may impact cyber information assets, and to provide additional detection and mitigation advice to recipients. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security ("Cyber Centre") is also available to provide additional assistance regarding the content of this Alert to recipients as requested.
ASSESSMENT
On 15 February 2021 CERT-FR published an Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information (ANSSI) report describing an assessed Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)-associated intrusion set found on the compromised servers of multiple French entities running Centreon, an IT monitoring product produced by a French company of the same name.
The report details several components of the intrusion set including malware and C2 infrastructure. Detection and mitigation advice are proposed and Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) supplied.
The Cyber Centre would like to highlight the report, as it provides important prevention, detection and mitigation advice to system owners and operators responsible for defending their systems and networks from cyber threats.
Should organizations identify similar activity to that described in the referenced report, recipients are encouraged to contact the Cyber Centre by email (contact@cyber.gc.ca) or by telephone (1-833-CYBER-88 or 1-833-292-3788).
REFERENCES
Report – ANSSI
https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/cti/CERTFR-2021-CTI-005/
Note to Readers
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) operates as part of the Communications Security Establishment. We are Canada's national authority on cyber security and we lead the government's response to cyber security events. As Canada's national computer security incident response team, the Cyber Centre works in close collaboration with government departments, critical infrastructure, Canadian businesses and international partners to prepare for, respond to, mitigate, and recover from cyber events. We do this by providing authoritative advice and support, and coordinating information sharing and incident response. The Cyber Centre is outward-facing, welcoming partnerships that help build a stronger, more resilient cyber space in Canada.