NetTraveler Spear-Phishing Email Targets Diplomat of Uzbekistan
Unit 42 recently identified a targeted attack against an individual working for the Foreign Ministry of Uzbekistan in China. A spear-phishing email was sent to a diplomat of the Embassy of Uzbekistan who is likely based in Beijing, China. In this report, we’ll review how the actors attempted to exploit CVE-2012-0158 to install the NetTraveler Trojan.
On December 12, 2015, a spear-phishing email was sent to a diplomat of the Embassy of Uzbekistan. Th...