TwoSail Junk — APT Profile
TwoSail Junk directs visitors to its exploit site by posting links within the threads of forum discussions, or creating new topic threads of their own. To date, dozens of visits were recorded from within Hong Kong, with a couple from Macau. The technical details around the functionality of the iOS implant, called LightSpy, and related infrastructure, reveal a low-to-mid capable actor. However, the iOS implant is a modular and exhaustively functional iOS surveillance framework.Also tracked as
Operation Poisoned News
Vendor research
- LightSpy: Implant for iOS ThreatFabric
- APT trends report Q1 2020 Kaspersky
- Operation Poisoned News: Hong Kong Users Targeted with Mobile Malware via Local News Links (Technical Brief) Trend Micro
- iOS exploit chain deploys LightSpy feature-rich malware Kaspersky
Countries linked to this actor
- Hong Kong targets