‘Vendetta’ - new threat actor from Europe

guest · Jun 16, 2020

‘Vendetta’ hackers are posing as Taiwan's CDC in data-theft campaign
June 15, 2020
https://www.cyberscoop.com/vendetta-taiwan-coronavirus-telefonica/

A mysterious hacking group has been posing as Taiwan’s top infection-disease official in an attempt to steal sensitive data from Taiwanese users, researchers said Monday.

The hackers sent meticulously written spearphishing emails to a select group of targets, which may have included Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control employees, according to ElevenPaths, the cybersecurity unit of Spanish telecommunications firm Telefónica Group, which uncovered the activity.
It is unclear how successful the phishing was; de Castro Simón said he didn’t know.

The hackers are part of a group known as Vendetta that has only surfaced in the last two months.
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They have posed as agency officials in Australia, Austria and Romania in attempts to install remote hacking tools on victim machines, Chinese cybersecurity company Qihoo 360 said in a report in May. At least some of Vendetta’s hacking attempts have been to “steal targeted business intelligence,” according to Qihoo 360.

“This type of group does not carry out massive attacks, but [are] very selective, so the number [of victims] should not be too high,” de Castro Simón said when asked how many users in Taiwan may have been compromised.
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