Kaspersky shares new details about watering-hole attacks targeting mobile users in Southeast Asia

Earlier in March, Trend Micro published research on a watering-hole campaign targeting users in Southeast Asia with powerful spyware called LightSpy. Following that research, Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team shared some important additional details on this attack targeting mobile users through links on various forums and communications channels.

In their research, published on Securelist.com, Kaspersky provides an analysis of:

– The surveillance framework’s deployment timeline starting from January 2020 – Previously unknown samples of the LightSpy Android implants- Traces of implants targeting Windows, Mac and Linux based computers along with Linux-based routers- New indicators of compromise and some other details about the attack

What is known about the LightSpy attacks?