The Evolving Tactics of Vidar Stealer: From Phishing Emails to Social Media

The notorious information-stealer known as Vidar is continuing to leverage popular social media services such as TikTok, Telegram, Steam, and Mastodon as an intermediate command-and-control C2 server. "When a user creates an account on an online platform, a unique account page that can be accesse...

New Malvertising Campaign via Google Ads Targets Users Searching for Popular Software

Users searching for popular software are being targeted by a new malvertising campaign that abuses Google Ads to serve trojanized variants that deploy malware, such as Raccoon Stealer and Vidar. The activity makes use of seemingly credible websites with typosquatted domain names that are surfaced...

Ukraine's DELTA Military System Users Under Attack from Info Stealing Malware

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA this week disclosed that users of the Delta situational awareness program received phishing emails from a compromised email account belonging to the Ministry of Defense. The attacks, which have been attributed to a threat cluster dubbed...

FRwL destroys data with Somnia to disrupt operations in Ukraine

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary FRwLFrom Russia with Love group, tracked as UAC-0118 uses a fake website to trick Ukrainian organization employees into downloading the Advanced IP Scanner software. Upon installation, the system is...

YouTube Tutorial Videos Spreading Vidar and Raccoon Malware

By Habiba Rashid The new campaign highlights the fact that downloading cracked software is bad news. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: YouTube Tutorial Videos Spreading Vidar and Raccoon Malware...

Spyware disguises itself as Zoom downloads

Zoom video call software continues to be a staple in work environments. Despite a slow, post-lockdown easing back to the "old normal," many businesses still have remote workers, or people working in different geographies. It's no surprise then to see criminals continuing to abuse Zoom's popularit...

Researchers Find Link b/w PrivateLoader and Ruzki Pay-Per-Install Services

Cybersecurity researchers have exposed new connections between a widely used pay-per-install PPI malware service known as PrivateLoader and another PPI platform offered by a cybercriminal actor dubbed ruzki. "The threat actor ruzki aka les0k, zhigalsz advertises their PPI service on underground...

New YTStealer Malware Aims to Hijack Accounts of YouTube Content Creators

Cybersecurity researchers have documented a new information-stealing malware that targets YouTube content creators by plundering their authentication cookies. Dubbed "YTStealer" by Intezer, the malicious tool is likely believed to be sold as a service on the dark web, with it distributed using fa...

RIG Exploit Kit Now Infects Victims' PCs With Dridex Instead of Raccoon Stealer

The operators behind the Rig Exploit Kit have swapped the Raccoon Stealer malware for the Dridex financial trojan as part of an ongoing campaign that commenced in January 2022. The switch in modus operandi, spotted by Romanian company Bitdefender, comes in the wake of Raccoon Stealer temporarily...

Beware of Fake Windows 11 Downloads Distributing Vidar Malware

By Waqas Phishing domains are spreading Windows 11 installers loaded with Vidar infostealer. According to the cybersecurity firm Zscaler ThreatLabz,… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Beware of Fake Windows 11 Downloads Distributing Vidar Malware...

Hackers Trick Users with Fake Windows 11 Downloads to Distribute Vidar Malware

Fraudulent domains masquerading as Microsoft's Windows 11 download portal are attempting to trick users into deploying trojanized installation files to infect systems with the Vidar information stealer malware. "The spoofed sites were created to distribute malicious ISO files which lead to a Vida...

Researchers Uncover How Colibri Malware Stays Persistent on Hacked Systems

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a "simple but efficient" persistence mechanism adopted by a relatively nascent malware loader called Colibri, which has been observed deploying a Windows information stealer known as Vidar as part of a new campaign. "The attack starts with a malicious Word...

Microsoft Help Files Disguise Vidar Malware

Where’s the last place you’d expect to find malware? In an email from your mother? Embedded in software you trust and use everyday actually, that’s probably the first place you should look? How about in a technical documentation file? In a report published Thursday, Trustwave SpiderLabs revealed ...

Malware families using Pay-Per-Install service to expand targets

By Owais Sultan The PrivateLoader is a Pay-Per-Install malware PPI that delivers a wide variety of malware. Including Vidar, Raccoon, Redline,… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malware families using Pay-Per-Install service to expand targets...

Payment Card Skimmer Group Using Raccoon Info-Stealer to Siphon Off Data

A cybercrime group known for targeting e-commerce websites unleashed a "multi-stage malicious campaign" earlier this year designed with an intent to distribute information stealers and JavaScript-based payment skimmers. In a new report published today and shared with The Hacker News,...

Domen toolkit gets back to work with new malvertising campaign

Last year, we documented a new social engineering toolkit we called "Domen" being used in the wild. Threat actors were using this kit to trick visitors into visiting compromised websites and installing malware under the guise of a browser update or missing font. Despite being a robust toolkit, we...

DeathRansom Campaign Linked to Malware Cornucopia

An ongoing DeathRansom malware campaign has been found by researchers to be part of a larger collection of malicious offensives, all carried out by an actor going by the nickname “scat01.” According to Artem Semenchenko and Evgeny Ananin at FortiGuard Labs, evidence found on Russian underground...

CB Threat Intelligence Notification: Vidar InfoStealer Trojan Aims to Steal Data Before Erasing Itself

Vidar is an info stealer trojan, which was sold under the name Vidar Pro stealer and can be distributed through different campaigns. This malware will perform multiple types of malicious behavior including stealing web browser cookies and history, digital wallets, two-factor authentication data,...

New GandCrab Decryptor Unlocks Files of Updated Ransomware

Yet another free decryptor is available for GandCrab ransomware victims. The tool, released Tuesday, is the third decryptor update in the past year that thwarts the prolific and fast-evolving GandCrab ransomware. Europol police announced availability of the update, which now unlocks data encrypte...

Malvertising Campaign Delivers Double Whammy of Ransomware and Info-Stealing

A multi-payload and ongoing malvertising campaign is distributing a newly discovered info-stealer as well as the GandCrab ransomware. The info-stealer is named Vidar, after the Norse god Víðarr, who was the son of Odin in mythology. According to researcher Fumik0, who discovered it in December,...