The FIN7 cybercriminal group has recently targeted the defense industry with malicious USB devices to deploy ransomware. In this event, the FIN7 group has been sending malicious USB devices to US companies in the past few months to infect their computer systems with ransomware.
Since August 2021, the FBI has received reports of several suspicious packages like these that contain these malicious USB devices, and all these malicious USB devices were sent to the following departments of the US:-
- Transportation
- Insurance
- Defense business organization
While here the operators of the FIN7 group have used the US Postal Service and the United Parcel Service to send all these parcels to their targets or victims.
Types of Packages Sent
The threat actors have sent two types of packages with these malicious USB devices, but how they are different?
The packages sent by the hackers were allegedly sent from the US Department of Health and Human Services, and not only that even they were accompanied by…