Feb 05, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cyber Extortion The threat actor known as Patchwork likely used romance scam lures to trap victims in Pakistan and India, and infect their Android devices with a remote access trojan called VajraSpy. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET said it uncovered 12 espionage apps, six of which were available for download from the official Google Play … [Read more...] about Patchwork Using Romance Scam Lures to Infect Android Devices with VajraSpy Malware
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Adversarial use of current events as lures
By Nick Biasini. The goal of malicious activity is to compromise the system to install some unauthorized software. Increasingly that goal is tied to one thing: the user. Over the past several years, we as an industry improved exploit mitigation and the value of working exploits has increased accordingly. Together, these changes have had an impact on the threat landscape. We … [Read more...] about Adversarial use of current events as lures
IndigoDrop spreads via military-themed lures to deliver Cobalt Strike
Cisco Blogs / Security / Threat Research / IndigoDrop spreads via military-themed lures to deliver Cobalt Strike By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes military-themed malicious Microsoft Office documents (maldocs) to spread Cobalt Strike beacons containing full-fledged RAT capabilities. These maldocs use malicious macros to … [Read more...] about IndigoDrop spreads via military-themed lures to deliver Cobalt Strike