ESET announces: Operation StealthyTrident: espionage attack on Mongolian government agencies. Installation programs and the update system of frequently used software were provided with malicious code.
Around 430 authorities in the Mongolian government have fallen victim to an APT group. ESET researchers found that the hackers compromised a chat software called Able Desktop, which is used in a business management suite popular in Mongolia. In a first step, the cyber criminals manipulated the installation program and later also the update system and used it to spread malware. The attacker's goal was to gain access to sensitive data and steal it. The ESET researchers suspect two groups to be actors: TA428 and LuckyMouse (APT 27).
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