Security News > 2020 > March > 'WildPressure' Campaign Targets Industrial Sector in Middle East
A targeted and ongoing malicious campaign first spotted last year has hit organizations in the Middle East with a new, fully-fledged Trojan, Kaspersky reveals.
The attacks were aimed at various organizations, some related to the industrial sector.
After managing to sinkhole one of the WildPressure command and control domains in September, Kaspersky discovered that most of the visitors' IP addresses were from the Middle East, with the rest believed to be network scanners, Tor exit nodes or VPN connections.
The Trojan appears to have been used exclusively on targets in the Middle East, from at least the end of May 2019, but the security researchers could not find similarities with any known actor or set of activity.
"So far, we haven't seen any clues that would support the idea that the attackers behind WildPressure have intentions beyond gathering information from the targeted networks. However, this campaign is still actively developing, and we've already discovered new malicious samples apart from the three originally discovered," Kaspersky senior security researcher Denis Legezo said.