Chinese APT Espionage campaign, dubbed 'Icefog' targeted Military contractors and Governments
Sep 27, 2013
Kaspersky Lab has identified another Chinese APT campaign , dubbed ' Icefog ', who targeted Governmental institutions, Military contractors, maritime / shipbuilding groups, telecom operators, industrial and high technology companies and mass media. The Hacking group behind the attack who carry out surgical hit and run operations , is an advanced persistent threat (APT) group, used a backdoor dubbed Icefog that worked across Windows and Mac OS X to gain access to systems. " The Mac OS X backdoor currently remains largely undetected by security solutions and has managed to infect several hundred victims worldwide ," the report (PDF) said. This China-based campaign is almost two years old and follows the pattern of similar APT-style attacks where victims are compromised via a malicious attachment in a spear-phishing email, or are lured to a compromised website and infected with malware . The attackers embed exploits for several known vulnerabilities (CV
