Security News > 2020 > March > COVID-19 Themed Phishing Campaigns Continue
The first report on the new campaign came in a RedDrip Team tweet on March 12, 2020: "Malicious document, pretending to be from the Government of #India with health advisory of Coronavirus, seems delivered by #Transparent Tribe. Victims are lured to enable macro to execute #Crimson #RAT payload.".
There have been numerous media reports about the Chinese nation-state APT Vicious Panda.
Even Malwarebytes starts its report on this APT36 phishing campaign with the comment, "According to reports from..., many state-sponsored threat actors have already started to distribute coronavirus lures, including Chinese APTs: Vicious Panda, Mustang Panda...".
The name comes from Check Point, and is the title of a Check Point report.
There is no mention of a Vicious Panda in the report.