A sophisticated hacking collective with suspected links to the Kremlin has been launching cyberattacks against the political party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel since April, according to security researchers at Trend Micro.
The ongoing siege against the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) appears to have been orchestrated by the well-known group known as Pawn Storm, with the aim of stealing personal and corporate government data. The hackers, targeting two popular email services, used a coordinated phishing attack against the CDU and other targets in Latvia and the Netherlands, Trend’s research has revealed.
“A fake corporate webmail server of CDU was set up in Latvia for advanced credential phishing,” Feike Hacquebord, senior threat researcher, said in a blog post. “Around the same time, three domains were created for credential phishing targeting high-profile individual users of two German free webmail providers.
“The main fake webmail server of but the free webmail credential phishing sites are on servers of the virtual CDU was set up in Latvia, Private Server provider in the Netherlands.” For the full article click here
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