The five businesses of the Russian defense industry (Defense Industry) were the target of the cyber attacks of Hacker group Cloud Atlas. According to positive technologies, the experts used identity hunting letters with malicious Microsoft office documents and sent them to corporate E -Mail. About it reports Print “Vedomosti”.
According to positive technologies, the opening of an infected letter may allow cyber criminals to penetrate the infrastructure of companies for cyber detection. Viktor Kazakov, the company’s leading expert, said that successful infection can lead to various negative consequences, including malfunctions in production, data leakage, espionage and attacks. He also added that all companies exposed to identity hunting attacks were immediately warned about a potential threat.
He said that positive technologies, malicious letters are related to financial, personnel and mobilization activities of businesses. The attackers used an invitation to advanced training courses, employees’ certificates, agreement actions and other documents specific to the public sector. Experts emphasized that there are templates of empty documents in which meta data deleted for difficulty defining the source of malicious files.
Positive technologies also showed the use of a characteristic technique to hide information about the management of infrastructure. In addition, computer pirates used the Non -Public Microsoft office documents stolen from the networks of other organizations that were previously subjected to attacks to create malicious files.
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Source: Gazeta
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