Suspected Indian state-backed advanced persistent threat operation SideWinder has launched attacks involving a PDF and ClickOnce infection chain as part of a spear-phishing campaign against a New Delhi-based European embassy and various organizations in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, according to The Hacker News.
BleepingComputer reports that multiple sophisticated features have been embedded into the new modular Atroposia RAT that could enable persistence, data exfiltration, and local vulnerability scanning for a $200 monthly subscription, lowering the barrier for cybercrime.
Newly emergent Herodotus Android banking trojan has been maintaining clandestine operations by copying human typing behavior, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
Kaspersky researchers revealed Monday that they uncovered a cyber-espionage campaign tied to Memento Labs, the rebranded successor of Italy's notorious surveillance tech firm Hacking Team, reports CyberScoop.
iVerify researchers have uncovered HyperRat, a new Android remote-access trojan offered as malware-as-a-service that lets subscribers control infected phones without coding, HackRead reports.
