By paganinip on July 7th, 2014
Cisco’s Threat Research Analysis and Communications (TRAC) uncovered an extremely targeted spear phish attack on high-profit companies in Europe.
A new APT has been discovered by CISCO targeting high-profit companies in Europe, including businesses working in
banking, oil and
entertainment industries. The attackers adopted as attack vector the email in a
spear phishing campaign. According to the alert provided by Cisco,
phishing emails were crafted for specific targeted companies, the attackers used a malicious Microsoft Word attachment to drop the malicious payload. When victims will open the file the malware is downloaded and executed on the machine. The attackers lure victims with malicious emails crafted to look like business invoices.
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