BleepingComputer reports that malware has been used by threat actors to distribute and install proxy server apps on at least 400,000 Windows systems to create a massive botnet that used the compromised systems as residential exit nodes.
Information-stealing malware Raccoon Stealer has reemerged with a new stealthier version more than six months after the malware's developers last posted on hacking forums and nearly a year after the then malware-as-a-service operation had its infrastructure dismantled by the FBI, BleepingComputer reports.
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Information-stealing malware strains were able to compromise 100,000 computers used by hackers, as well as more than 140,000 cybercrime forum credentials, with most of the infections attributed to the RedLine, Raccoon, and Azorult stealers, BleepingComputer reports.
New QwixxRAT emerges, NetSupport Manager RAT deployed in new campaign Threat actors have been ramping up promotions for the new QwixxRAT information-stealing malware on Discord and Telegram, while the NetSupport Manager RAT has been leveraged in a new ongoing malware campaign, reports The Hacker News.
Banks and other financial institutions across Latin America are having their Microsoft Windows systems compromised with the new JanelaRAT malware to enable the exfiltration of sensitive user data, The Hacker News reports.
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