Middle East Conflict Fuels Cyber Attacks | ThreatLabz
ThreatLabz tracks a surge in Middle East conflict–themed threats, including PDF lures, LOTUSLITE/StealC delivery, phishing, scams, & meme-coin pump-and-dumps.
📢⚠️ The China-linked notorious Mustang Panda group is using #Venezuela related news lure to deliver #LOTUSLITE backdoor against US govt targets in a cyberespionage campaign.
Read: https://hackread.com/mastang-panda-venezuela-news-lotuslite-malware/
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Mastang Panda Uses Venezuela News to Spread LOTUSLITE Malware
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LOTUSLITE: Targeted espionage leveraging geopolitical themes
Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU) observed a targeted malware campaign against U.S. government entities leveraging a politically themed ZIP archive containing a loader executable and a malicious DLL. The executable is used to sideload and execute the DLL, which functions as the primary backdoor, tracked as LOTUSLITE.
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