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Agentless approach meets the attacker earlier to protect financial services and other large enterprises from an underserved attack vector.

An unknown threat actor has been targeting Russian entities with a newly discovered remote access trojan called Woody RAT for at least a year as part of a spear-phishing campaign. The advanced custom backdoor is said to be delivered via either of two methods: archive files and Microsoft Office documents leveraging the now-patched "Follina" support diagnostic tool vulnerability (CVE-2022-30190)

By Deeba Ahmed According to the latest research findings from VirusTotal, cybercriminals and threat actors are increasingly relying on mimicked versions… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: VirusTotal Reveals Apps Most Exploited by Hackers to Spread Malware

The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team has discovered a new Remote Access Trojan that we dubbed Woody Rat used to target Russian entities. The post Woody RAT: A new feature-rich malware spotted in the wild appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Categories: Threat Intelligence Tags: APT Tags: rat Tags: russia The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team has discovered a new Remote Access Trojan that we dubbed Woody Rat used to target Russian entities. (Read more...) The post Woody RAT: A new feature-rich malware spotted in the wild appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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A late-stage candidate encryption algorithm that was meant to withstand decryption by powerful quantum computers in the future has been trivially cracked by using a computer running Intel Xeon CPU in an hour's time. The algorithm in question is SIKE — short for Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation — which made it to the fourth round of the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standardization

IObit Malware Fighter version 9.2 fails to provide sufficient anti-tampering protection and that shortcoming can be leveraged to escalate to SYSTEM privileges.

Phishing operators are taking advantage of security bugs in the Amex and Snapchat websites (the latter is unpatched) to steer victims to phishing pages looking to harvest Google and Microsoft logins.

Threat actors are increasingly mimicking legitimate applications like Skype, Adobe Reader, and VLC Player as a means to abuse trust relationships and increase the likelihood of a successful social engineering attack. Other most impersonated legitimate apps by icon include 7-Zip, TeamViewer, CCleaner, Microsoft Edge, Steam, Zoom, and WhatsApp, an analysis from VirusTotal has revealed. "One of the