ESET have spotted a new cyber espionage campaign targeting embassies, consulates, and ministries worldwide. Hackers leverage a new backdoor dubbedto spy on governments and diplomats. The campaign active at least since 2016 was associatedRussian Turla APT group. Researchers from Kaspersky have also monitored this campaign that they called Whitebear APT campaign. The Gazer backdoor was written in C++, hackers deliver the malicious code via spear phishing emails and compromise the targeted computers in two stages.”]
Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/62518/apt/gazer-backdoor-apt-turla.html