A new watering hole attack is leveraging SLACK, a collaborative platform that lets users create and use their own workspaces, to send command-and-control communications without being detected. The new approach was discovered by Trend Micro.
Usman Rahim, Digital Security & Operations Manager atThe Media Trust:
“Battlefields are increasingly online, and this attack in particular was carefully planned. Watering hole attacks are carried out primarily on specific organizations. Whoever orchestrated this campaign wanted to gather personal and communications information on visitors of a website operated by a nonprofit that supports the North Korean regime. Not surprisingly, the malware strain used has not been seen anywhere else. It also comes as no surprise that the orchestrators chose popular tools that would leave few, if any, traces that would enable anyone to identify them.”
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