A state-sponsored threat group is running a large-scale attack campaign involving fake versions of Zoom, cybersecurity researchers have claimed.
The large-scale dissemination of the fake video conferencing app brought the campaign to the attention of Kaspersky, which believes it is being run by China-based LuminousMoth threat group to spy on targets in South East Asia.
“In some cases, this [the initial break-in] was followed by deployment of a signed, but fake version of the popular application Zoom, which was in fact malware enabling the attackers to exfiltrate files from the compromised systems,” notes Kaspersky.
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According to its investigation, Kaspersky believes the campaign dates back to at…
