Fine wine is a cultural trait that Europeans are renowned for, but attackers behind a recent threat campaign have exploited this to their advantage. By luring European Union (EU) diplomats with a fake wine-tasting event, the cyber operation aimed to deliver a unique backdoor.
In a blog post published on February 27, researchers at Zscaler’s ThreatLabz reported that they had found the campaign, which especially targeted officials from EU nations with diplomatic posts in India. The actor, dubbed “SpikedWine,” used a PDF file in emails that pretended to be an invitation letter from India’s embassy, inviting diplomats to a wine-tasting event on February 2.
“We believe that a nation-state threat actor, interested in exploiting the geopolitical relations between India and diplomats in European nations, carried out this attack,” Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Sudeep Singh and Roy Tay explained in the post.
The campaign’s payload is a backdoor known as “WineLoader,” which has a mo
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