Vietnamese hackers appear to be researching an NSA backdoor tool
A hacker group with suspected ties to the Vietnamese government appears to be researching a leaked National Security Agency tool codenamed ODDJOB, based on documents uploaded to the repository VirusTotal and tied to a source already identified as OceanLotus group, otherwise known as APT32. A classified user manual for ODDJOB was originally published on April 14 by a mysterious group, known for sharing NSA documents, named the Shadow Brokers. A copy of this same document was then uploaded April 17 to VirusTotal along with other malicious email attachments by OceanLotus. Multiple U.S. cybersecurity firms say OceanLotus is aligned with the interests of the Vietnamese government. The specific version of the manual uploaded by OceanLotus was not weaponized, meaning it didn’t carry malware that could be used to convert the harmless PDF to a phishing lure. ODDJOB is a high-quality, masterfully engineered digital weapon believed to have been once used to help […]
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