StrongPity attacks targeted Kurdish community in Syria and Turkey for surveillance and intelligence exfiltration purposes. The advanced persistent threat behind the operation has retooled with new tactics to control compromised machines. Using Tainted Installers to selectively infect victims, the APT group leveraged Trojanized popular tools, such as archivers, file recovery applications, remote connections applications, utilities, and even security software, to cover a wide range of options that targeted victims might be seeking,” Bitdefender said.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2020/06/strongpity-syria-turkey-hackers.html