Security Researchers Discover Malware Targeting Samsung Service CentersByNitish Singh-July 17, 2018.057 Figure 2 Fortinet Photo Courtesy According to the American research firm Fortinet, ‘ The multi-staging of these attacks is a distinctive feature of these attacks. Such attacks use fake emails of malicious Office documents with exploits for a 17-year-old vulnerability, and a consumer variant of a Rat tucked into five different layers of safe packers. “The attacks were investigated by the security research teams that found the malware, but neither Tg Soft nor Fortinet were able to identify what the hackers are after. In the service centers both countries hold very little customer information from which hackers can benefit. One of the possible reasons for this could be to infect Samsung mobile devices with malware to steal personal data. There has been no evidence from the hackers of any such operations, however. Grip.