Beers with Talos, Ep. #116: Let's wade into the Muddy Water filled with Vipers
Summary: Beers with Talos episode No. 116, recorded Feb. 4, 2022, covers two state-sponsored threat actors Talos had recently written about: AridViper, which targets Palestine with politically themed phishing attacks, and MuddyWater, which targets Turkish users via malicious PDFs and executables. The episode examines the maldocs involved in these campaigns and their targets, alongside host Matt Olney's Twitter threads on the situation in Ukraine.
Key Takeaway: Two state-sponsored actors were running phishing campaigns against users in Palestine and Turkey at the same time, and the delivery mechanism in both cases was documents and files users are conditioned to open.
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