August 26, 2017 By Catalin Cimpanu
A cyber-espionage unit is using the recent Game of Thrones episode leaks to lure targets into opening malicious documents sent via email.
For the past week, the group has sent emails to victims with the subject of “Wanna see the Game of Thrones in advance?” hoping to entice targets to open the email and download the attached files.
These files are booby-trapped with an embedded LNK file that runs a Powershell script that installs the 9002 remote access trojan, allowing attackers full access to the infected machine.
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