Governments across the Asia-Pacific had their systems compromised by the new TetrisPhantom advanced persistent threat operation in attacks leveraging secure USB drives infected with a trojanized UTetris app over the last few years, reports BleepingComputer. TetrisPhantom facilitated the intrusions with the initial execution of the AcroShell payload on targeted machines to enable the deployment of information-stealing malware, with the exfiltrated data later leveraged for XMKR malware and trojanized UTetris app development, a Kaspersky report revealed.

Source: SC Magazine