Proactive Protection, a prominent threat analysis group, not…
Proactive Protection, a prominent threat analysis group, notified affiliated companies that it had identified an approach used for nation-state attacks. The hackers set up a cybersecurity blog in an attempt to build credibility with potential targets. In the blog, the hackers focused on vulnerabilities that were actually already public. The hackers then created a series of social media accounts linked to the blog. The hackers, posing as the authors of the blog, reached out to security researchers, asking them to collaborate on their work. When the security researchers responded, the hackers sent these researchers Visual Studio Projects software containing malware, which infect the researchers’ computers. This type of threat to online privacy is known as: