Android devices are being exploited by hackers with RATs
The threat actor behind the BlackRock and ERMAC Android banking trojans has unleashed yet another malware for rent called Hook that introduces new capabilities to access files stored on the devices and create a remote interactive session. ThreatFabric, in a report, characterized Hook as a novel ERMAC fork that’s advertised for sale for $7,000 per […]
Hackers use stolen banking information to trick victims into downloading BitRAT malware
A new malware campaign has been observed using sensitive information stolen from banks as bait in phishing emails to drop a remote access Trojan called BitRAT. An unknown attacker hijacked her IT infrastructure for a Colombian credit union and used the information to create a convincing decoy message to trick the victim into opening her […]
APT hackers use malicious Excel add-ins as an initial breach vector
Microsoft’s decision to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by default in Office files downloaded from the Internet has prompted many attackers to improvise attack chains in recent months. Today, according to Cisco Talo, advanced persistent threat (APT) actors and the commodity malware family are increasingly using Excel extension files (.XLL) as their primary […]