Water Makara employs the Astaroth banking malware, which features a new defense evasion technique. Their spear phishing campaigns exploit human error by targeting users to click on malicious files. To mitigate these threats, organizations should implement regular security training, enforce strong password policies, utilize multifactor authentication (MFA), keep security solutions updated, and apply the principle of least privilege.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| Various | Water Makara |
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Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to Water Makara. Each row shows why it was linked and where it came from.
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Open-source reports about this actor collected from MISP Galaxy.