NetTraveler resurfaces in Chinese APT's spear-phishing campaign

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The 12-year-old Trojan NetTraveler has resurfaced in an APT group’s spear-phishing campaign against Russian and Eastern European targets.
The 12-year-old Trojan NetTraveler has resurfaced in an APT group's spear-phishing campaign against Russian and Eastern European targets. The campaign was announced by security research firm Proofpoint.

Proofpoint director of threat intelligence Patrick Wheeler told SCMagazine.com the espionage campaign was launched by a Chinese group, although he said there is “no indication that it is state-sponsored.”

The campaign targeted defense, weapons manufacturing, military organizations, pro-democracy and human rights advocacy groups in Russia, Mongolia, Belarus, and other European countries. The APT group or a related group “utilized Saker, Netbot, DarkStRat, and LURK0 Gh0st in its espionage activities,” a Proofpoint blog post stated on Thursday.

The attackers used infected webpages that mimic news sites in Russian, Mongolian, and Turkish languages

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Chinese have numerous to create cyberattacks to anywhere, since considered to be one of the rich in technological techniques that can create massive destruction to any country.
 

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