BackdoorDiplomacy: Upgrading from Quarian to Turian
US State Department in 2013. This trend of targeting Ministries of Foreign Affairs continues with Turian. Victims have been discovered in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of several African countries, as well as in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Additional targets include telecommunication companies in Africa, and at least one Middle Eastern charity. In each case, operators employed similar tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), but modified the tools used, even within close geographic regions, likely to make tracking the group more difficult. See Figure 1 for a map of victims by co...
Source: welivesecurity.com