New Hacker Group 'GambleForce' Tageting APAC Firms Using SQL Injection Attacks

Dec 14, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Data Breach

A previously unknown hacker outfit called GambleForce has been attributed to a series of SQL injection attacks against companies primarily in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region since at least September 2023.

"GambleForce uses a set of basic yet very effective techniques, including SQL injections and the exploitation of vulnerable website content management systems (CMS) to steal sensitive information, such as user credentials," Singapore-headquartered Group-IB said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

The group is estimated to have targeted 24 organizations in the gambling, government, retail, and travel sectors across Australia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand. Six of these attacks were successful.

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The modus operandi of GambleForce is its exclusive reliance on open-source tools like dirsearch, sqlmap, tinyproxy, and redis-rogue-getshell at different stages of the attacks with the ultimate goal of exfiltrating sensitive information from compromised networks.

Also used by the threat actor is the legitimate post-exploitation framework known as Cobalt Strike. Interestingly, the version of the tool ..

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