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CyberWire Daily · Dec 8, 2018 · 26 min

Operation Red Signature targets South Korean supply chain. [Research Saturday]

Researchers at Trend Micro uncovered a supply chain attack targeting organizations in South Korea. With the goal of information theft, attackers compromised the update server of a third party support provider, resulting in the installation of a RAT, or remote access trojan. Rik Ferguson is Vice President of Security Research at Trend Micro, and he guides us through their discoveries. The research can be found here: https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/supply-chain-attack-operation-red-signature-targets-south-korean-organizations/

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Researchers at Trend Micro uncovered a supply chain attack targeting organizations in South Korea. With the goal of information theft, attackers compromised the update server of a third party support provider, resulting in the installation of a RAT, or remote access trojan.


Rik Ferguson is Vice President of Security Research at Trend Micro, and he guides us through their discoveries.


The research can be found here:

https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/supply-chain-attack-operation-red-signature-targets-south-korean-organizations/

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