New ‘Curly COMrades’ APT Using NGEN COM Hijacking in Georgia, Moldova Attacks

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Curly COMrades has been observed targeting entities in Georgia and Moldova as part of a cyber espionage campaign designed to facilitate long-term access to target networks. “They repeatedly tried to extract the NTDS database from domain controllers – the primary repository for user password hashes and authentication data in a Windows network,”