McAfee Defender’s Blog: Operation North Star Campaign

This McAfee report describes Operation North Star, a targeted campaign against the Aerospace & Defense sector that uses spear‑phishing with weaponized documents (template injection), signed binaries, encoded/encrypted command-and-control, and other APT‑style techniques; it provides observed indicators, MITRE ATT&CK mappings, detection examples, and guidance on layered defenses and McAfee product mitigations.