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Platinum APT and leverages steganography to hide C2 communications

Security Affairs

The APT group was discovered by Microsoft in 2016, it targeted organizations in South and Southeast. The hackers don’t appear to be financially motivated due to the nature of targeted entities and TTPs of the group. The campaign, which may have started as far back as 2012, featured a multi-stage approach and was dubbed EasternRoppels.”