The Initial Access Broker (IAB) known as Gold Melody has been attributed to a campaign that exploits leaked ASP.NET machine keys to obtain unauthorized access to organizations and peddle that access to other threat actors.
The activity is being tracked by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 under the moniker TGR-CRI-0045, where « TGR » stands for « temporary group » and « CRI » refers to criminal motivation.

The Initial Access Broker (IAB) known as Gold Melody has been attributed to a campaign that exploits leaked ASP.NET machine keys to obtain unauthorized access to organizations and peddle that access to other threat actors.
The activity is being tracked by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 under the moniker TGR-CRI-0045, where « TGR » stands for « temporary group » and « CRI » refers to criminal motivation.