In fall 2024, UNK_CraftyCamel leveraged a compromised Indian electronics company to target fewer than five organizations in the United Arab Emirates with a malicious ZIP file that leveraged multiple polyglot files to eventually install a custom Go backdoor dubbed Sosano.
Proofpoint uses the UNK_ designator to define clusters of activity that are still developing and have not been observed enough to receive a numerical TA designation. Delivery and infection chain analysis In late October 2024, UNK_CraftyCamel actors leveraged access to a compromised email account belonging to the Indian electronics company INDIC Electronics to send malicious email messages. The emails contained URLs pointing to the actor-controlled domain indicelectronics[.]net, which mimics the legitimate INDIC electronics domain.
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Source: Proofpoint
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