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Fake Mandiant`s Report on Chinese Spy Unit Used in Targeted Attack

The fake e-mails appear to be targeting some Japanese organizations and certain Chinese journalists by flaunting as an attachment a bogus copy of the Mandiant report on the Chinese spy unit launched this week. In the background the attachment is exploiting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader (CVE-2013-0641) to automatically install a malware, which downloads additional malicious components. The installed malware immediately contacts a C2 server hosted in Korea and communicates with some legitimate Japanese websites, probably to make security services think that software was legitimate.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/fake-mandiants-report-on-chinese-spy-unit-used-in-targeted-attack/

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