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Trend Micro spotted recent malicious activity conducted by cybercriminal group Confucius. The hackers launched a spear-phishing campaign using Pegasus lures to trick users into clicking on a malicious document that downloads a data theft code.
The attack begins with a clean email that contains a text copied from a legitimate Pakistani newspaper article.Two days later, the victim receives a new email with a warning from a Pakistani military official about the Pegasus spyware that includes a cutt.ly link to encrypted Word document and a decryption password.
Regardless of the action taken by the victim, clicking on either of the links leads to downloading the Word document. If the target makes the mistake of entering…
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