The DarkHotel APT group is back and it is targeting executives at telecommunications companies in China and North Korea. The hackers exploited the Adobe Flash vulnerability CVE-2015-8651, patched by Adobe on Dec. 28 with an out-of-band patch. The list of targets includes CEOs, senior vice presidents, top R&D engineers, sales and marketing directors from the USA and Asia traveling for business in the APAC region. The attackers appeared as highly skilled professionals that exfiltrate data of interest with a surgical precision.”]
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