{"id":207829,"date":"2025-03-05T05:14:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-polyglot-malware-hits-aviation-satellite-communication-firms"},"modified":"2025-03-05T05:14:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:14:28","slug":"new-polyglot-malware-hits-aviation-satellite-communication-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-polyglot-malware-hits-aviation-satellite-communication-firms","title":{"rendered":"New polyglot malware hits aviation, satellite communication firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-polyglot-malware-hits-aviation-satellite-communication-firms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A previously undocumented polyglot malware is being deployed in attacks against aviation, satellite communication, and critical transportation organizations in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n<p>The malware delivers a backdoor called Sosano, which establishes persistence on the infected devices and allows the attackers to execute commands remotely.<\/p>\n<p>The activity was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.proofpoint.com\/us\/blog\/threat-insight\/call-it-what-you-want-threat-actor-delivers-highly-targeted-multistage-polyglot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">discovered by Proofpoint<\/a> in October 2024, which states that the attacks are linked to a threat actor named \u2018UNK_CraftyCamel.\u2019 While the campaign is still small, the researchers report that it is still advanced and dangerous to targeted companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A previously undocumented polyglot malware is being deployed in attacks against aviation, satellite communication, and critical transportation organizations in the United Arab Emirates. The malware delivers a backdoor called Sosano, which establishes persistence on the infected devices and allows the attackers to execute commands remotely. The activity was discovered by Proofpoint in October 2024, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}