Targeted Attacks are a daily occurrence and Attackers are fast to employ the latest news stories in their social engineering themes. In a recent Targeted Attack, delivering a payload of Backdoor.Korplug and caught by our Symantec.Cloud Services, we observed an attacker taking advantage of a recently-published article by The Washington Post in relation to chemical attacks in Syria. The attacker took the Full Text of the article and used it in their own malicious document in an effort to dupe victims into believing the document was legitimate.
- Blog: Chemical Attack In Syria Used As Enticement in Targeted Attack