Remcos RAT Spreading Through Adult Games in New Attack Wave

The remote access trojan RAT known as Remcos RAT has been found being propagated via webhards by disguising it as adult-themed games in South Korea. WebHard, short for web hard drive, is a popular online file storage system used to upload, download, and share files in the country. While webhards...

Exploring New Techniques of Fake Browser Updates Leading to NetSupport RAT

Exploring New Techniques of Fake Browser Updates Leading to NetSupport RAT By Jonell Baltazar and Antonio Ribeiro · August 10, 2023 Trellix detected an ongoing campaign using fake Chrome browser updates to lure victims to install a remote administration software tool called NetSupport Manager...

Threat Roundup for July 29 to August 5

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 29 and Aug. 5. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

Threat Analysis: Malicious Microsoft Word Documents Being Used in Targeted Attack Campaigns

A Microsoft Word document .doc believed to be malicious was recently submitted to Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit TAU. The submitting organization did not feel that that document and subsequent payload was fully executing in their analysis environment, and questioned whether or not it was...