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>Any of the recipients who opened the attachment would have installed malware capable of monitoring and controlling their computers. What kind of attachment? T
by upofadown 5y ago
>Any of the recipients who opened the attachment would have installed malware capable of monitoring and controlling their computers.
What kind of attachment? These articles tend to concentrate on trivia while omitting the actual attack.
- tyingq 5y agoYou can follow a chain of links and see the actual report here: https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/documents/fa704edd-3328-4ce5-a9ce-c0863c20d114/note/efd9f765-845a-4cd0-92f5-479e53557a2e.#page=1 https://context-cdn.washingtonpost.com/notes/prod/default/do... Amnesty International also has an article with a lot of technical detail: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2020/06/india-human-rights-defenders-targeted-by-a-coordinated-spyware-operation/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2020/06/india-hum... Scroll down to "Variant 1" for a pretty detailed answer to your question.
- rualca 5y agoThe article links to another WaPo article that describes how these activists were targeted with malware emails used to install NetWire on their computer, which was then used to plant evidence.