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Cobalt cybercrime gang targets Russian and Romanian banks

Security experts from Netscouts ASERT uncovered a new campaign carried out by the Cobalt cybercrime group. The attacks were detected on August 13, 2018, experts revealed that the hackers targeted also the NS Bank in Russia and Carpatica/Patria in Romania. The experts also detected two malware samples used in the campaign, a JavaScript backdoor and another malicious code tracked as COOLPANTS, a reconnaissance backdoor associated with the group. They found only a spear-phishing email dated 2 August 2018 addressed to a bank and sent by Interkassa”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/75793/cyber-crime/cobalt-campaign-russia-romania.html

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