Source: OTX
Date: 2017-03-13 05:26:43
Threat actor: Unknown
Affected sector: Civil Society / Dissidents
Attack vector: Malware Infection
Severity: Medium
Confidence: Low
File hash (FileHash-MD5): b24084db87b5fc97b72d59fa56c1bddb
Description:
Rasul Jafarov is a prominent lawyer and human rights defender in Azerbaijan. In mid-October 2016, he received an unexpected phone call.

He told Amnesty International: “one of my colleagues called me…and said ‘I received an email from you and you’re mentioning something about political prisoners and there is an attachment there. But I know your email for sure it’s not that one.”
As it turned out, the email address was similar to Rasul’s, but it was not his, and the attachment his friend alluded to contained a virus.