Targeted Spy Campaign Hits Russian Service Centers

Minimalist · Jun 8, 2018

A series of espionage attacks have been uncovered, targeted at service centers in Russia that provide maintenance and support for a variety of electronic goods.

The payload is a commercial version of the Imminent Monitor tool, which is freely available for purchase as legitimate software. Its developers explicitly prohibit any usage of the tool in a malicious way – which bad actors are clearly ignoring.
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https://threatpost.com/targeted-spy-campaign-hits-russian-service-centers

guest · Jul 17, 2018

Near identical attack:
Samsung Service Centers in Italy Targeted in Malware Campaign
July 17, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...enters-in-italy-targeted-in-malware-campaign/

Security researchers have discovered ongoing malware campaigns targeting Samsung service centers in Italy, campaigns that appear to be the counterparts of attacks that have previously targeted similar electronics service centers in Russia this year.

The attacks usually start with the delivery of spoofed spear-phishing emails to Samsung Italy service center workers.
These emails carry attached Excel documents that when opened leverage the CVE-2017-11882 Office Equation Editor vulnerability to infect users with malware.

Both attack waves, targeting Italy and Russia, started at the end of March, according to the two reports. But while Russian service centers were targeted with the Imminent Monitor RAT, the attacks on Samsung Italy service centers also leveraged other RATs, such Netwire and njRAT.
Nobody knows the purpose of these attacks
But despite all the data gathered by TG Soft and Fortinet, the two companies have not been able to determine why the hackers are trying to infect electronics service centers, to begin with.
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