Trend Micro Researchers were alerted to the discovery of a campaign of targeted attacks that have successfully compromised defense industry companies in India, USA, Japan and Israel. Trend claims they were able to identify eight victims of this attack and are in the process of notifying them.

Trend Micro Researchers were alerted to the discovery of a campaign of targeted attacks that have successfully compromised defense industry companies in India, USA, Japan and Israel. Trend claims they were able to identify eight victims of this attack and are in the process of notifying them. Trend says they analyzed a sample that connects to the same command-and-control (C&C) server in this targeted attack, as well as a remote access Trojan (RAT) used by the attackers. Also discovered was the second stage malware used by the attackers that was built specifically for one of the targeted companies.