Confidential documents from Japanese politics stolen by malware

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Confidential documents from Japanese politics stolen by malware
Botnet
Malware	HTran
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2012 / 2013-01-05
Editor/Conference	Security Affairs
Link	http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/11529/intelligence/confidential-documents-from-japanese-politics-stolen-by-malware.html (Archive copy)
Author	Pierluigi Paganini
Type	Blogpost

Abstract

“ Last December Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency was hit again by malware that stolen secret information on newest rockets from an internal computer, it was not first time for the Japanese agency that was already victim of a cyber attack having same purpose, cyber espionage to obtain information on another technological advanced project related to the design of an unmanned vessel that ferries cargo to the International Space Station, the “H-2 Transfer Vehicle”.

Bibtex

 @misc{2012BFR1277,
   editor = {Security Affairs},
   author = {Pierluigi Paganini},
   title = {Confidential documents from Japanese politics stolen by malware},
   date = {05},
   month = Jan,
   year = {2012},
   howpublished = {\url{http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/11529/intelligence/confidential-documents-from-japanese-politics-stolen-by-malware.html}},
 }