The Slingshot APT
released on 2018-03-09 @ 05:52:36 PM
Slingshot is a new, previously unknown cyber-espionage platform which rivals Project Sauron
and Regin in complexity.
• Slingshot has been active since at least 2012 until February 2018
• We observed almost one hundred Slingshot victims, mainly in the Middle East and Africa
• The attackers exploited an unknown vulnerability in Mikrotik routers as an infection vector