Security News > 2023 > October > TetrisPhantom: Cyber Espionage via Secure USBs Targets APAC Governments
2023-10-18 09:11
Government entities in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region are the target of a long-running cyber espionage campaign dubbed TetrisPhantom. "The attacker covertly spied on and harvested sensitive data from APAC government entities by exploiting a particular type of secure USB drive, protected by hardware encryption to ensure the secure storage and transfer of data between computer systems," Kaspersky
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