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Global spy campaign targeting nuclear, defence companies identified
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IANS | 13 Dec, 2018
Researchers at cybersecurity
major McAfee have discovered a new global spy campaign targeting
nuclear, defence, energy and financial companies.
This campaign,
while masquerading as legitimate industry job recruitment activity,
gathers information to monitor for potential exploitation, the Santa
Clara, California-headquartered McAfee said in a blog post on Wednesday.
The espionage programme has links to the Lazarus Group which is believed to have connections to the North Korean government.
This
campaign, dubbed Operation Sharpshooter, leverages an in-memory implant
to download and retrieve a second stage implant -- which McAfee calls
Rising Sun -- for further exploitation.
According to the
cybersecurity company's analysis, the Rising Sun implant uses source
code from the Lazarus Group's 2015 backdoor Trojan Duuzer in a new
framework to infiltrate these key industries.
McAfee researchers
found that the Rising Sun implant appeared in 87 organisations across
the globe, predominantly in the US, between October and November 2018.
Based on other campaigns with similar behaviour, most of
the targeted organisations are English speaking or have an
English-speaking regional office, McAfee's Ryan Sherstobitoff and Asheer
Malhotra wrote.
The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team found that the majority of targets were defence and government-related organisations.
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