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Super Cookies, Web Analytics Behind Malicious Profiling

ID: c5ccb577-6372-51e8-830e-5b08ff5fb69a

STIX ID: report--c5ccb577-6372-51e8-830e-5b08ff5fb69a

Feed Name: Security Ledger

Threat Score
80/100

Date Published: 2015-11-19

Date Updated: 2026-05-05

Author: Paul Roberts

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FireEye detected a sophisticated watering-hole campaign that combined compromised legitimate websites with a WITCHCOVEN tracking script and Evercookie supercookies to profile and persistently track visitors—focusing on individuals tied to international diplomacy, Ukraine’s security services, Russian entities and the energy sector—allowing attackers to identify high-value targets for subsequent tailored exploits or spearphishing; FireEye believes the activity aligns with nation-state intelligence collection.

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