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  Exotic Lily was relatively advanced in its tactics, and uses “unusual” amounts of gruntwork, for a mass-scale operation, Google claims.

  The group would use domain and identity spoofing to pose as a legitimate business, and send out phishing emails, usually faking a business proposal. They would also use publicly available Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to generate authentic images of humans, to create fake LinkedIn accounts, which would help the campaign’s credibility. 

  After initial contact has been made, the threat actor would upload malware to a public file-sharing service, such as WeTransfer, to avoid detection by antivirus programs, and increase the chances of delivery to the target endpoint. The malware, usually a weaponized document, exploits a zero-day in Microsoft’s MSHTML browser engine, tracked as CVE-2021-40444. The second-stage deployment usually carried the BazarLoader.

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  Exotic Lily was first spotted in September last year, and at peak performance, is able to send out more than 5,000 phishing emails to more than 650 organizations, Google claims. It seems the threat actor focuses mostly on firms in IT, cybersecurity, and healthcare, although it’s been casting a somewhat larger net, as of lately. 

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