More than 150,000 emails spreading the Hupigon RAT that use adult dating as a lure have been uncovered, with almost half being sent to U.S. university and college email addresses. Several U.S. universities have been targeted in a widespread spear-phishing attack that uses adult dating as a lure. In reality, the emails spread the Hupigon remote access trojan (RAT), known to be leveraged by state-sponsored threat actors. Researchers from Proofpoint warned that the ongoing spear-phishing campaign has sent more than 150,000 messages to 60+ different industries – with almost half of the malicious emails focused on the education space, including several unnamed colleges and universities. The bulk of the messages (80,000 emails) were mostly sent between April 14 and 15.
Source: Threatpost
