Remote access Trojan PingPull also attacks financial institutions
New insights from Unit 42 Research: A new, hard-to-detect remote access Trojan called PingPull was recently identified as being used by GALLIUM, an APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) group. It targets telecommunications, government and finance. Unit 42 actively monitors the infrastructure of several APT groups. One of these groups, GALLIUM (aka Operation Soft Cell), has made a name for itself by targeting telecom companies in Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa. The geographic focus, industry focus and their technical prowess coupled with the use of well-known Chinese malware, tactics, techniques and procedures…