Cyber Attackks

How Cyber Threat Managers Conduct Complicated Attacks at the Lowest Cost

Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform (KATA) discovered a suspicious RTF-file. The file included an exploit (malware that exploits security weaknesses in widely used software to install additional malicious components) to a known and already patched vulnerability in Microsoft Office. It is not uncommon for regular cybercriminals to use exploits of known vulnerabilities to infect victims with general, massively distributed malware, but as deeper research showed, this particular RTF-file didn’t belong to another large infection wave, but to a much more sophisticated and highly targeted campaign.