News and Analysis

A suspected South Asian cyber espionage threat group, Bitter, has targeted a Turkish defense sector using C++-malware tracked as WmRAT and MiyaRAT. This attack used data streams in a RAR archive to create a scheduled task on the target machine as part of a wider threat trend tracked by enterprise security provider, Proofpoint. The group’s previous targets have been in Asia and include China, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh.