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New targeted attack against Saudi Arabia Government

The attack originates from a phishing email containing a Word document in Arabic language. If the victim opens it up, it will infect their system and send the same document to other contacts via their Outlook inbox. Malwarebytes users remained protected without the need for any signatures. The malicious Word documents used by the threat actors show that they spent time to make them look legitimate and added references and names from high ranking officials, probably so the lure would seem more credible. The purpose of this piece of malware appears to be stealing information and uploading it to a remote server: The malware itself appears to not be sophisticated, this particular campaign was very well-“]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/social-engineering-cybercrime/2017/03/new-targeted-attack-saudi-arabia-government/

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