APT group specifically attacks diplomats
New APT group is targeting diplomats: ESET researchers have followed and analyzed the activities of the hacker group in Europe, Asia and Africa. ESET researchers have discovered a new APT group called BackdoorDiplomacy. The hackers are primarily targeting foreign ministries in the Middle East and Africa. But they have also become active in Germany and Austria. Activities in Germany too Your attacks usually start with the exploitation of vulnerable applications on web servers in order to install a custom backdoor, which ESET calls Turian. The researchers of the European ...