Malware

Information exposed by the hacking incident revealed not only all devices infected with Spytech spyware, most of which were Windows PCs, but also their unencrypted activity logs.

Intrusions involved the use of the domain, crowdstrike-office365[.]com, to lure users into downloading a recovery tool purportedly addressing update-related boot loop issues but delivers a malware loader.

Threat actors set up fake accounts that look legitimate on the GitHub platform.

Stargazer Goblin used such GitHub Ghost accounts to establish the legitimacy of hundreds of repositories touted to be for social media, gaming, and cryptocurrency, according to a Check Point Research report.

Intrusions conducted by PatchWork commenced with the distribution of a malicious LNK file enabling the download of a fraudulent PDF to conceal compromise with Brute Ratel C4 and PGoShell malware.

Attackers leveraged phishing emails with a malicious Word attachment having the same text as Microsoft's support bulletin regarding its Recovery Tool for outage-hit devices that contains macros, which when enabled facilitates the download of a DLL file.