Malware

The HP Threat Research team says security pros should take note because Raspberry Robin has been used to deliver multiple families of malware – and as a precursor to ransomware.

Phishing attacks with the ScrubCrypt crypter and BatCloak malware obfuscation engine have been launched by threat actors to facilitate multi-stage malware infections, reports The Hacker News.

BleepingComputer reports that more than 2,000 WordPress websites were discovered by MalwareHunterTeam to have been injected with crypto drainers to facilitate automated fund exfiltration a month after nearly a thousand hacked sites were found by Sucuri to have been used to enable brute-force attacks against other sites.

Windows systems across Latin America have been targeted with malicious payloads delivered through a sophisticated phishing attack campaign, The Hacker News reports.

The remote access trojan creates a second hidden desktop to control the victim’s browser.

BleepingComputer reports that phishing attacks with an updated JSOutProx remote access trojan variant have been deployed against financial entities in South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.