Tag: diplomacy

An Iranian-aligned spear-phishing campaign masquerading as Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs communications targeted global government entities. The operation used compromised mailboxes to distribute malicious Word documents containing VBA macros. When executed, these macros decoded and deployed a …

ESET researchers discovered two previously unknown backdoors – LunarWeb and LunarMail – compromising a European ministry of foreign affairs and its diplomatic missions abroad. LunarWeb, deployed on servers, utilizes HTTP(S) for command and control communications, mimicking legitimate requests to av…