VERY IMPORTANT

Researchers identified several instances of their low-volume targeted attack campaigns launched against the UK and Europe. In earlier campaigns observed in 2021, the main distribution vector used by this threat group was Windows Shortcut files (LNK) sent inside malicious archive files (ZIP) as email attachments in spear phishing emails to the victims. In the most recent instances, the threat actor has started using MS Office Word documents, leveraging document template injection to deliver the malicious payload to the victims’ machines.