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State-sponsored cyber spies and criminals are increasingly using legitimate cloud services to attack their victims, according to Symantec's threat hunters who have spotted three such operations over recent months, plus new data theft and other malware tools in development by these goons.criminals use clouds many of the same reasons as legitimate organizations, plus the fact that they make it easier to avoid being caught snooping around on victims' networks.
Some of the more recent campaigns include a backdoor that Symantec named “Grager” after spotting it being used against three organizations in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Vietnam in April. This piece of malware used Microsoft's Graph API to communicate with the attacker's command and control server, hosted on Microsoft OneDrive.
According to Elias, in March his team found another backdoor believed to be under development and named"Moon_Tag" by its developer. This malware is based on code published inand contains functionality for communicating with the Graph API. Symantec attributed MoonTag to a Chinese-speaking group, based on the Google Group and the infrastructure used.
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