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Rocket Kitten, the cyberattack group that recently launched an email malware campaign against European and Israeli targets, has delivered a new state-sponsored attack, according the a report by Trend Micro.
As DFI News previously reported, Gadi Evronand and Tillman Werner explained at the 31th Chaos Communication Congress that email attachments delivered macros with the GHOLE malware. The Ghole malware being a modified version of CORE IMPACT, a sophisticated penetration-testing tool from CORE -- a company that develops legal software.
As with the previous attack, user participation was needed to execute macros in a file. In one instance, a spear-phishing...