A new targeted attack was detected through TeamViewer, which aimed at stealing financial information from government and economic targets across Europe and beyond.
Check Point researchers announced on Monday that the attacks targeted government and financial officials, as well as representatives of various embassies in Europe, Nepal, Kenya, Liberia, Lebanon, Guyana and Bermuda.
The attack began with a typical phishing e-mail containing a malicious attachment claiming to be a "top secret" document from the United States.
The subject line said “Military Financing Program” and the .XLSM document had the logo of MinistryU.S. Department of State.
So if someone opened the document and enabled the macroscommands, έβγαιναν δύο αρχεία – ένα κανονικό πρόγραμμα AutoHotkeyU32.exe και ένα κακόβουλο TeamViewer dll.
AutoHotkeyU32 was used to send a POST request to the intruder's command and control (C&C) server, but also to download more malicious scripts capable of capturing screenshots of the target computer, stealing information, and then sending it to the attacker. .
TeamViewer usesis often from businesses for remote PC access. However, due to its capabilities, the software is also used by fraudsters to gain access to remote systems.
The malicious parchange με το TeamViewer DLL διέθετε στους επιτιθέμενους τροποποιημένη functionality, and hiding every TeamViewer connection. So victims didn't know someone was logged into their computer.
The main targets of the specific attack as we mentioned above were public financial sector bodies and according to them researchers the would-be hacker was Russian.
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