The Callisto Group

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We’ve published a White Paper today titled: The Callisto Group.

And who/what is the Callisto Group? A good question, here’s the paper’s summary.

The Callisto Group is an advanced threat actor whose known targets include military personnel, government officials, think tanks, and journalists in Europe and the South Caucasus.

Heavy use of spear phishing, and malicious attachments sent via legitimate, but compromised, email accounts.

Don’t click “OK”.

Warning prompt shown to the user by recent versions of Microsoft Word if the user clicks the icon for the embedded malware executable.

“That program could do anything!”


Tagged: APT, Callisto Group, Th3 Cyb3r, White Paper

Article Link: https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2017/04/13/the-callisto-group/