EU diplomats: invitation to wine tasting with malware in their luggage
A recently identified cyber espionage campaign shows how highly specialized attackers are targeting government institutions and diplomats. These threat actors used fake wine tasting invitations as bait to target European diplomats using this simple yet effective technique. The campaign, codenamed SPIKEDWINE, uses fake PDF invitations from Latvia to an alleged wine tasting, disguised as a letter from the Indian ambassador for a wine tasting in February 2024. This PDF contains a link to a fake questionnaire that redirects users to a malicious ZIP archive on a compromised website, thus...