A new email-based campaign by an emerging threat actor aims to spread various remote access trojans (RATs) to a very specific group of targets who use Bloomberg’s industry-based services.
Cisco Talos Intelligence researchers discovered the campaign, dubbing it and its perpetrator “Fajan,” and asserting it is likely the work of one actor from an Arabic-speaking country.
Researchers have been tracking the email based campaign since Fajan first commenced activity in March, recovering a “relatively low volume” of samples that make it tricky to determine “whether the campaigns are carefully targeted or mass-spammed,” according to a report posted online Wednesday.
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Source: ThreatPost