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New OilRig APT campaign leverages a new variant of the OopsIE Trojan

  • September 6, 2018
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September 6, 2018  By Pierluigi Paganini
 

The Iran-linked APT group OilRig was recently observed using a new variant of the OopsIE Trojan that implements news evasion capabilities.

 
Experts at Palo Alto observed a new campaign carried out by the Iran-linked APT group OilRig that was leveraging on a new variant of the OopsIE Trojan.
 
The OilRig hacker group is an Iran-linked APT that has been around since at least 2015, since then it targeted mainly organizations in the financial and government sectors, in the United States and Middle Eastern countries.
 
The OopsIE Trojan is one of the malware in the APT’s arsenal that was detected for the first time in February 2018.
 
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