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Alert: Phishing Campaigns Deliver New SideTwist Backdoor and Agent Tesla Variant

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()2 min read2
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2017-11882
Memory Corruption RCE in Microsoft Office via Legacy Equation Editor
7.8100%KEVRansomwarePoC ×10
KEV
CVE-2018-0802
Memory Corruption RCE in Microsoft Office Equation Editor
7.893%KEVRansomwarePoC ×3
KEV

From the original article

2 min read at thehackernews.com

The Iranian threat actor tracked as APT34 has been linked to a new phishing attack that leads to the deployment of a variant of a backdoor called SideTwist . “APT34 has a high level of attack technology, can design different intrusion methods for different types of targets, and has supply chain attack capability,” NSFOCUS Security Labs said in a report published last week.

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