Two research firms released new reports documenting an ongoing series of APT attacks. The attacks have been targeting financial services firms, petroleum production companies, engineering firms and embassies. Attacks typically begin with phishing e-mails, with Trojanized Word documents attached, say Blue Coat researchers. Kaspersky Lab says there are numerous similarities between these recent attacks and the Red October campaign that it discovered in October 2012. Attackers have been using malware that has been designed to exploit at least one zero-day vulnerability.”]
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