NetTraveler Spear-Phishing Email Targets Diplomat of Uzbekistan
released on 2016-01-21 @ 05:29:35 PM
Unit 42 recently identified a targeted attack against an individual working for the Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan 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.