Breakdown of a Targeted DanaBot Attack
released on 2019-03-04 @ 09:23:29 AM
On Feb 5th, 2019, the FortiGuard SE team discovered a targeted attack aimed at an unknown individual working for a governmental organization located in the city of Gold Coast, Australia. Within a span of a few days, we had observed additional activity targeting various members of this organization, specifically in the form of spearphishing attacks. We can safely surmise that it is very likely that this threat was specifically targeting this organization at this time for reasons unknown to us.