- Powerful spyware watering hole attacks have been increasingly utilized by elite hacking groups, leveraging unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise devices.
- Governments are primary customers for commercial spyware vendors like Intellexa and NSO Group, targeting opposition figures and activists.
- Google’s Threat Analysis Group linked recent hacking campaigns by Russia’s APT29 Cozy Bear to exploits similar to those from Intellexa and NSO Group.
- The attackers conducted watering hole attacks on Mongolian government websites, exploiting vulnerabilities in iOS and Android that had been previously patched.
- The sophistication of these attacks suggests a well-resourced state-backed group, raising concerns about the proliferation of commercial spyware exploits to dangerous threat actors.
https://www.wired.com/story/russia-cozy-bear-watering-hole-attacks/
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