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A new wave of attacks linked to the Codoso ATP Group

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 the Chinese APT group Codoso has been targeting organizations in various industries in a new wave of cyber attacks. The hackers compromised a part of the Forbes.coms website that displays to visitors before theyre redirected to articles. The intent of the group was to run a watering hole attack by exploiting the zero-day vulnerabilities in Adobe’s Flash Player and Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9. The attacks leveraged two strains of malware never seen before, but with many similarities with the Derusbi malware used by Comodo hackers in the past.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/43970/cyber-crime/codoso-apt-cyber-espionage-campaign.html

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