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SNAKEMACKEREL Group Uses Brexit-Themed Spear Phishing Attack to Target Government Agencies

December 7th 2018, By Shane Schick

 

Analysts discovered a new campaign from the SNAKEMACKEREL group that uses fake Brexit-related documents to infiltrate major government agencies and steal information.

 

Researchers with Accenture noted that SNAKEMACKEREL, which is also known by several other names including Sofacy, is an espionage-motivated collective of cybercriminals with a history of launching malware attacks on public sector organizations across North America and the European Union.

 

In the recent campaign, victims were lured in with a spear phishing attack to open documents containing the malicious macros, which then activated a form of malware that has multiple names, including Zebrocy and Zekapab. Agencies targeted in the campaign included the U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the U.K Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

 

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