Cyber-Espionage Group That Targeted Palestinian Law Enforcement Last Year Returns With New Attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

Catalin Cimpanu, writing for BleepingComputer: A cyber-espionage group that has targeted Palestinian law enforcement last year is now back in action targeting Palestinian government officials. These recent attacks started in March 2018, according to evidence surfaced by Israel-based cyber-security firm Check Point. The new attacks seem to fit the same modus operandi of a group detailed in two reports from Cisco Talos and Palo Alto Networks last year.

Those reports detailed a spear-phishing campaign aimed at Palestinian law enforcement. The malicious emails tried to infect victims with the Micropsia infostealer, a Delphi-based malware that contained many strings referencing characters from the Big Bang Theory and Game Of Thrones TV shows. Now, the same group appears to be back, and the only thing they've changed is the malware, which is now coded in C++. The TV shows references are still there, this time with mentions to the Big Bang Theory, but also a Turkish TV series named "Resurrection: Ertugrul."

Comments

Not subtle enough

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds like the Israelis are false flagging again.

Re: Not subtle enough

[Type44Q]

Don't you think Israel has given the world enough reasons to be disgusted with it??

Re:Not subtle enough

[Nidi62]

I'll support the side that doesn't give 400 million annually to the families of suicide bombers.

So instead you choose to support the side that shoots at protesters with live ammunition, shoots kids throwing rocks at armored vehicles (or not doing anything at all), tears down buildings and whole communities for not having the proper permits (which it always refuses to give), controls water and electricity access, destroys the whole house if a family member commits a "terrorist" act, sentences soldiers who get caught on camera killing wounded and defenseless Palestinians to 9 months in jail, and runs a complete economic blockade.

Re:Not subtle enough

[Anonymous Coward]

So instead you choose to support the side that places bombs on passenger planes like Pan Am 103 and continue to try to bomb passenger planes (bombs hidden in sneakers and underwear), who hijacks passenger planes and after telling the passengers that if they don't resist, they will be safe, yet fly the planes into both World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, and the fourth plane flown into the ground in Shanksville PA, because the hijackers game was up thanks to passenger learning about 9/11 from Airphones, and decided to go for broke and attack the hijackers.

There is CCTV of British Muslims bombing the London Underground on 7/7 2005 and another with the blood of Lee Rigby on his hands boasting of his Jihad to the video camera.

Not extensive at all. Probably "strings". Standard

[raymorris]

Simply running "strings" on the executable would probably be sufficient, as it would include names of C++ libraries.

It would also either require or include the C++ standard library.

So what does "Palestinian Law Enforcement" do??

[SuperKendall]

I'm curious what on earth a "Palestinian Law Enforcement" group does, do they make sure the fire bombs terrorists sail on kites over to Israel have the correct amount of fire starting material or what?

Or maybe they go around to homes making sure the kids are all watching the appropriate amount of cartoons showing jewish people are working with the devil so they are groomed to carry out suicide attacks...

Because it sure doesn't seem like there is any law in Palestine.

Re:So what does "Palestinian Law Enforcement" do??

[Anonymous Coward]

The obvious answer is to remove the the will and ability of the side that constantly tries to kill the other side constantly. I bet Israel wouldn't give a damn about "Palestinians" if there were not daily bombings, stabbings and rocket launches.

It's not discrimination when the destruction of one side is built into the bad side's charter. Go wiki Hamas charter. Go look at Israel's constitution.