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Hackers behind the BLACKGEAR espionage campaign now targets Japan

Japanese organizations were targeted in an espionage campaign dubbed Blackgear. The threat actor behind the Blackgear cyber-espionage campaign that is targeting Japanese entities is the same that hit Taiwan in 2012. The attack vectors are spear phishing emails or compromised websites used to serve the malware in watering hole attack. The websites used in the watering hole attacks were used to download a malicious code that drops decoy documents and the downloaders used to fetch the backdoors used by the group (i.e. Elirks and Ymalr)”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/52763/cyber-crime/blackgear-espionage-campaign.html

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