New research indicates threat actors are launching phishing campaigns against employees in the African banking industry with the intention to do damage, including potentially attacking the country’s finance sector with ransomware. Aite-Novarica’s Tari Schreider, strategic advisor for Aite Novarica, says this campaign is notable about the actor’s intent and detailed social engineering methods. HTML smuggling gives threat actors a way to disguise the malware, or sneaking a malware past security controls, has been attractive to threat actors for years.”]
Source: https://www.inforisktoday.com/african-bank-malware-campaign-shows-actors-persistence-a-18902