Tag: phishing lure

AtlasCross, a new APT hacking outfit, uses phishing lures that impersonate the American Red Cross to target businesses and spread backdoor software. DangerAds and AtlasAgent, two previously unreported trojans, have been linked to attacks by the new APT organization, according to cybersecurity firm NSFocus. According to NSFocus, the AtlasCross hackers are skilled and evasive, making it difficult for the researchers to pinpoint their origin. This APT attacker is quite different from known attacker characteristics in terms of execution flow, attack technology stack, attack tools, implementation details, attack objectives, behavior tendency, and other main attribution indicators, according to NSFOCUS Security Labs, which conducted an in-depth analysis of the attack process read more ...