Dangerous holy water

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 Attackers are infecting users’ computers with a backdoor posing as an Adobe Flash Player update.

At the end of 2019, our experts used the watering hole technique to uncover a targeted attack. Without deploying any sophisticated tricks or exploiting any vulnerabilities, the attackers infected user devices in Asia over a period of at least eight months. 

Based on the subject matter of the websites used to spread the malware, the attack was christened, yes, Holy Water. 

This is the second attack we have discovered in several months to use such tactics (see here for our researchers’ other find. 

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