Malware

Microsoft’s notorious Internet Explorer has been brought out of retirement by threat actors using its security holes to serve malware.

Fraudulent JPG files have also been leveraged by ViperSoftX to deploy AutoIT scripts and the AutoIT executable, along with PowerShell scripts.

Organizations in the U.S., Canada, and Germany have been targeted with attacks involving the novel Zergeca distributed denial-of-service botnet last month, The Hacker News reports.

More Latin American financial organizations have been subjected to intrusions involving the Mekotio banking trojan, also known as Melcoz, aimed at banking credential exfiltration, The Hacker News reports.

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Attacks with the GootLoader malware used to distribute IcedID, REvil, Gootkit, and other payloads have intensified with the appearance of new variants of the loader, which has been associated with the Hive0127 threat operation, also known as UNC2565, reports The Hacker News.

Aside from leveraging malvertising aimed at Microsoft Teams and OneNote, AnyDesk, Google Chrome, and other widely used software, attackers also sought to spread FakeBat via social networking-based social engineering tactics and fraudulent web browser updates.