New Malvertising Campaign Uses Fake Windows News Portal to Distribute Malicious Installers

A new malvertising campaign has been found to employ fake sites that masquerade as legitimate Windows news portal to propagate a malicious installer for a popular system profiling tool called CPU-Z. "This incident is a part of a larger malvertising campaign that targets other utilities like...

Operation “Armor Piercer:” Targeted attacks in the Indian subcontinent using commercial RATs

By Asheer Malhotra, Vanja Svajcer and Justin Thattil. Cisco Talos is tracking a campaign targeting government personnel in India using themes and tactics similar to APT36 aka Mythic Leopard and Transparent Tribe.This campaign distributes malicious documents and archives to deliver the Netwire...

Taxpayers Targeted With Improved NetWire RAT Variant

A new variant of the the NetWire remote access trojan RAT is hitching a ride on IRS-themed phishing ploys targeting taxpayers in hopes of snatching victims’ credentials and tax information. The recently uncovered campaign reveals the RAT’s operators swapping up infection tactics to use a legacy...

TAU Threat Analysis: NetWire Variant Leveraging AutoIt Scripts and Windows Shortcut Links

NetWire, an information stealing RAT that dates back multiple years, has been witnessed in the wild recently using a tactic of combining Windows shortcut link files and AutoIt scripts. These scripts pose as BitTorrent files, a protocol used for direct peer-to-peer file transfers, to entrench and...

Popular Malware Families Using 'Process Doppelgänging' to Evade Detection

The fileless code injection technique called Process Doppelgänging is actively being used by not just one or two but a large number of malware families in the wild, a new report shared with The Hacker News revealed. Discovered in late 2017, Process Doppelgänging is a fileless variation of Process...

Cybercriminals Have a Heyday with WinRAR Bug in Fresh Campaigns

A recently discovered vulnerability in the WinRAR file archival utility has been exploited in a slew of new campaigns, including one with a never-before-seen payload. The flurry of activity shows no sign of waning as cybercriminals continue to find success exploiting the bug. The campaigns take...

Threat Actors Target Chinese Language News Sites

A California-based news website covering China, called China Digital Times, was targeted in a spying campaign that involved phishing lures and the use of the NetWire remote access Trojan. The attacks began in February 2017 and were part of a wider campaign of phishing, reconnaissance and malware...

NetWire RAT Back, Stealing Payment Card Data

The remote access Trojan NetWire is back and this time making the rounds pilfering payment card data. The move is a shift for attackers behind notorious NetWire, that was once thought to be the first multi-platform RAT. Over the last couple of years payment card breaches have been mostly synonymo...