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How threat actors weaponized Mia Ash for a social media attack

11th August 2017  by Rob Wright

 

Dell SecureWorks researchers detected suspicious activity on social media accounts of Mia Ash. When they dug deeper, they discovered a new, complex social engineering attack.

 

Who is Mia Ash?

That was the question security analysts at Dell SecureWorks found themselves pondering earlier this year while investigating a flurry of phishing attacks against targets in the Middle East. Analysts believed a sophisticated advanced persistent threat (APT) group was behind the attack, for two reasons. First, the emails contained PupyRAT, a cross-platform remote access Trojan that was first discovered in 2015 and had been used by an Iranian threat actor group Dell refers to as “Cobalt Gypsy” (also known as Threat Group 2889 or “OilRig”). And second, the email addresses used in the attacks weren’t spoofed.  

 

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