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The threat actor behind the Blackgear cyber-espionage campaign that is targeting Japanese entities is the same that hit Taiwan in 2012.

According to security experts from Trend Micro, Japanese organizations were targeted in an espionage campaign dubbed Blackgear.

Attackers behind the Blackgear appear to be the same that targeted users in Taiwan in 2012, they used a well-known strain of malware detected by many security firms as Elirks.

The attack vectors are spear phishing emails or compromised websites used to serve the malware in watering hole attack. The websites used in the watering hole attacks were used to download a malicious code that dro…

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Hackers behind the BLACKGEAR espionage campaign now targets Japan