One of the several multinational corporations enlisted by the German government to help it obtain personal protective equipment (PPE) for the care of COVID-19 patients has been targeted in an ongoing phishing campaign, IBM reported on Monday.
According to IBM, a threat actor has targeted more than 100 high-ranking people within this company, which is part of Germany's Task Force Personal Protective Equipment (TFPSA), whose members leverage their contact networks, particularly in China, to secure PPE.
The attackers have targeted executives within the organization, as well as its supply chain partners, and IBM believes the same group likely also targeted other members of the task force. IBM says it has notified German authorities.
The company targeted in the attack has not been named, but the task force’s members include BASF, Volkswagen, Lufthansa, logistics firm Fiege, and retailer Otto.
IBM spotted the first attack against the company on March 30, the same day German officials held talks with the members of the task force. The activity was traced back to an IP address in Russia, which researchers linked to more than 280 URLs that point to fake Microsoft login pages designed to phish users’ credentials. The harvested credentials are then sent to email accounts hosted by the Russia-based company Yandex.
It’s worth noting that while the attack involves a Russian IP address and exfiltration is done via a Russian service, it does not necessarily mean that the attack was launched by a Russian threat actor as it’s not uncommon for sophisticated hacker groups to plant fake evidence to throw investigators off track.
An analysis of the URLs showed that they were sent to executives working ..
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