According to computer emergency response team CERT Polska, the purpose of the “campaign” was to gather information about foreign ministries and diplomatic missions based in the EU, NATO and Africa.
Diplomatic mission members received emails from European embassies containing malicious links. Polish counterintelligence suspects the hackers may be linked to the Nobelium group, which US officials have linked to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. But Russia denies any involvement with the hacker group.
Earlier, Internet security company Cloudflare set a new trend in the distribution of DDoS attacks. Attackers have gone from using compromised IoT devices to hijacking vulnerable virtual private servers (VPS).
Source: Ferra
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