Operation North Star: Summary Of Our Latest Analysis

McAfee ATR uncovers Operation North Star, a focused espionage campaign targeting defense-sector individuals in Australia, India, Israel and Russia using tailored LinkedIn lures, spearphishing with weaponized DOTM attachments, compromised legitimate domains for C2, and a previously unknown second-stage implant named Torisma that performs selective monitoring and payload execution to enable long-term data collection and exfiltration.