THREAT ACTOR GROUPS USE COVID-19 PANDEMIC THEME
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Threat Actor Groups use COVID-19 pandemic theme
1. Executive Summary
The worldwide epidemic of Corona virus (COVID-19) affects more than 1.2 million people in 212 countries. For the APT group, which mainly uses social engineering techniques as the initial infection, the Corona virus is a good topic to attract the attention of targets. Accordingly, several hacking activities of the APT group who recently exploited the Corona virus have been discovered.
The ThreatRecon team has identified hacking activities that have exploited the Corona virus in about 27 countries to date. The attacker mainly used the current report, news articles, etc. related to the Corona virus to create a malware that contains a macro script or vulnerability. Among these hacking activities, in addition to malware in the form of document files, malwares of types such as shortcut (LNK) files and Android (APK) files were identified.
The following the countries in which hacking activity that used corona …
1. Executive Summary
The worldwide epidemic of Corona virus (COVID-19) affects more than 1.2 million people in 212 countries. For the APT group, which mainly uses social engineering techniques as the initial infection, the Corona virus is a good topic to attract the attention of targets. Accordingly, several hacking activities of the APT group who recently exploited the Corona virus have been discovered.
The ThreatRecon team has identified hacking activities that have exploited the Corona virus in about 27 countries to date. The attacker mainly used the current report, news articles, etc. related to the Corona virus to create a malware that contains a macro script or vulnerability. Among these hacking activities, in addition to malware in the form of document files, malwares of types such as shortcut (LNK) files and Android (APK) files were identified.
The following the countries in which hacking activity that used corona …