Cybercriminals targeted a U.S. government agency with a spear-phishing campaign that leverages the increasing geopolitical relations issues surrounding North Korea to lure targets into opening malicious email attachments that contain malware strains, including a never-before-seen malware downloader, coined “Carrotball”. The fraudulent emails were sent from four different Russian email addresses to 10 unique targets.
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@Alexander García-Tobar, CEO and Co-founder, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"In this incident, threat actors are using Russian email addresses to distribute documents...."
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@Alexander García-Tobar, CEO and Co-founder, provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"In this incident, threat actors are using Russian email addresses to distribute documents...."
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