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New espionage attack by Molerats APT targeting users in the Middle East
Jan. 20, 2022, 9:03 p.m. | Sahil Antil
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Introduction
In December 2021, the ThreatLabz research team identified several macro-based MS office files uploaded from Middle Eastern countries such as Jordan to OSINT sources such as VT. These files contained decoy themes related to geo-political conflicts between Israel and Palestine. Such themes have been used in previous attack campaigns waged by the Molerats APT.
During our investigation we discovered that the campaign has been active since July 2021. The attackers only switched the distribution method in December 2021 with …
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