Forget the Riesling, bring on the WINELOADER
Russia's Cozy Bear, also known as APT29 and Midnight Blizzard, engineered the messages to infect marks' Windows PCs with a backdoor first observed in January and dubbed WINELOADER. These were intended to provide long-term access to the political parties' networks and data, the Google-backed security biz asserted on Friday.
"Western political parties and their associated bodies from across the political spectrum are likely also possible targets for future SVR-linked cyber espionage activity given Moscow's vital interest in understanding changing Western political dynamics related to Ukraine and other flashpoint foreign policy issues," Mandiant's Luke Jenkins and Dan BlackSolarWinds' network monitoring software and then used that access to spy on customers such as the US Treasury, Justice, and...
Victims, looking forward to confirming they were up for cocktails and canapes, were directed to click on a link to a hijacked, Cozy Bear-controlled website – waterforvoicelessorg/invite.php – which would download a .zip file. Marks who opened the archive and then its contents would end up executing a program called ROOTSAW, which would infect the PC with the WINELOADER backdoor, fetched from waterforvoicelessorg/util.php.
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