F-Secure has discovered MiniDuke malware samples in the wild

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F-Secure has discovered MiniDuke malware samples in the wild
Botnet	MiniDuke
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
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Distribution vector
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Origin
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Operation/Working group
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CCProtocol
Date	2014 / 2014-04-02
Editor/Conference
Link	http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/23658/cyber-crime/f-secure-new-miniduke-atp.html (Archive copy)
Author	Pierluigi Paganini
Type	Blogpost

Abstract

“ Security Experts at F-Secure discovered a collection of pdf documents, that had references to Ukraine, containing MiniDuke malware samples.

MiniDuke is the name of a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign discovered more than one year ago by experts at Kaspersky Lab and Hungary’s Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS). The malicious code was used by unknown hackers to infect dozens of computers at government agencies across Europe exploiting a security flaw in Adobe software, the malicious Payload is dropped once the victim opens the malicious PDF file. The malware was designed to steal sensitive information from government organizations and high profile entities, the level of sophistication and the nature of the chosen targets suggest that the attacks are part of a state-sponsored espionage campaign.

Bibtex

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   author = {Pierluigi Paganini},
   title = {F-Secure has discovered MiniDuke malware samples in the wild},
   date = {02},
   month = Apr,
   year = {2014},
   howpublished = {\url{http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/23658/cyber-crime/f-secure-new-miniduke-atp.html}},
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