Kaspersky uncovers large cyber spying campaign in South-East Asia

MOSCOW, Jul 14 (PRIME) -- Russia’s Kaspersky has unmasked a large-scale campaign of cyber spying in South-East Asia, whose victims count about 1,500 organizations, the antivirus software maker said on Wednesday in a statement.

“Kaspersky revealed a rarely large cyber espionage campaign in South-East Asia. Its victims include about 100 organizations in Myanmar and 1,400 on the Philippines, including state agencies. The campaign, called LuminousMoth, has been active at least since October 2020,” the Kaspersky statement read.

Kaspersky thinks that Chinese-speaking group HoneyMyte, collecting geopolitical and economic data in Asia and Africa, could have orchestrated the campaign.

Machines are infected via phishing – victims get letters with a link to cloud storage Dropbox, which uploads a RAR-formatted archive with a malicious Word document. Once penetrated, the program expands to other devices in the network via USB flash disks.

LuminousMoth also exploits a fake Zoom, Kaspersky said.

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