The use of contextually-relevant emails is one of the most common social engineering tactics employed in targeted attacks. Emails still being the primary mode of business communications are often abused to deliver exploits to penetrate a network that consequently lead to other stages of a targeted attack cycle. In one of the targeted attacks we’re…
Read MoreTargeted attacks are difficult to detect and mitigate by nature. We recently uncovered a targeted attack campaign we dubbed as “ANTIFULAI” that targets both government agencies and private industries in Japan. In our 2H 2013 Targeted Attack Trends report, we found that 80% of the analyzed cases of targeted attacks hit government institutions. Like many targeted attacks, ANTIFULAI uses…
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