Research

The Taidoor campaign primarily targeted government organizations located in Taiwan. Trend Micro Research was able to develop indicators of compromise useful in determining if an attack is underway in an enterprise.

Their use of social engineering, vulnerability exploits, a specialized malware not only make targeted attack campaigns high-priority threats, they also make them difficult to defend against. To mitigate such threats, a custom defense strategy is required.

The threat actors behind “Lurid Downloader” launched 301 malware campaigns that targeted entities in specific countries or geographic regions and added a means to track the success of each one.