MESA Imaging (Acquired by Heptagon, then ams OSRAM)
MESA Imaging camera software distributed Havex.
MESA Imaging, a Swiss developer of 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras and related software used in industrial applications, was another vendor whose website was compromised by the DragonFly group. Software installers for their camera products were trojanized with the Havex RAT, enabling espionage on systems using their specialized imaging equipment. This record tracks the MESA Imaging product scope specifically; related Havex vendor compromises are tracked separately.
- Date
- 2013-01-01 to 2014-06-01
- Category
- Commercial
- Target Surface
- Distribution
- Insertion Phase
- distribution
- Impact
- Backdoor
- Cause
- Website compromise
What Was Affected
Package
MESA Imaging (Acquired by Heptagon, then ams OSRAM)
LanguageC++
ComponentApplication
Artifact typebinary archive
Domain typeproject download host
Domain
mesa-imaging.ch
Compromised Versions
- Specific software installers available during the compromise period.
Incident Context
- Motive
- Espionage
- Attribution
- Nation-state
- Transitive
- No
- Observed Duration
- 516 days
Evidence
Compromised Artifacts
- Trojanized MESA Imaging camera software installers (e.g., for SR4000 series cameras), downloaded from mesa-imaging.ch during 2013-2014.
Current Artifacts and Analysis
- f-secure.com/documents/996508/1030745/Threat_Intelligence_Report_Havex_an_Energetic_Bear_Targets_ICS_SCADA.pdf
- web.archive.org/web/20190717022917/https://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/security_response/whitepapers/dragonfly-threat-against-energy-sector-systems.pdf
- cisa.gov/news-events/ics-alerts/ics-alert-14-176-02a
- virustotal.com/gui/file/09a35ac2f7f9ca156c3a2ab2466c029976535390099101632e904a7ca3f6764d
Indicators and Changes
Hashes
sha256:09a35ac2f7f9ca156c3a2ab2466c029976535390099101632e904a7ca3f6764dsha256:4a1a783a11c1a2a9d5915717b16ebb5012c685f4457a08246666d7d2f7dcb238md5:f691c8f16e290f829710ff0a18ff2532
External References
Source Data
Source record: proprietary/mesa_imaging/meta.yaml