Security experts from Check Point Software Technologies have uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign, dubbed Volatile Cedar. The hackers are likely to operate from Lebanon and hacked into systems of defense contractors, telecommunications operators, educational organizations and media groups. The high level of sophistication and nature of the targeted organizations lead the experts to suspect that the operation was operated by state-sponsored hackers. The attackers used custom-built scanners and several other attack tools to identify flaws in the targeted websites. Once compromised the system the hacker served a Web shells backdoor on the Web servers, the attackers install a custom-made Windows Trojan dubbed Explosive.”]
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