A hacking campaign has been orchestrated by unknown actors, utilizing malicious word documents. The malware itself, designated Jasperload, infects in a multi stage process, whilst using a series of obfuscation processes. This has made the analysis of it difficult. It has been reported that the main method of attack has been spreading through digitally signed emails, and this is in order to spread the Gootkit banking trojan.
It has been reported that this campaign has been active for several months now, and is being investigated by security researchers at Talos.
Original article can be found here.
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----Mad-Architect
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