Hook, line, and sinker. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Tanner, Senior Security Researcher from Barracuda, discussing their work on "Stealthy phishing attack uses advanced infostealer for data exfiltration." The recent phishing attack, detailed by Barracuda, uses a sophisticated infostealer malware to exfiltrate a wide array of sensitive data. The attack begins with a phishing email containing an ISO file with an HTA payload, which downloads and executes obfuscated scripts to extract and transmit browser information, saved files, and credentials to remote servers. This advanced infostealer is notable for its extensive data collection capabilities and complex exfiltration methods, highlighting the increasing sophistication of cyber threats. The research can be found here: Stealthy phishing attack uses advanced infostealer for data exfiltration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.0	code n2k. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.
1:34.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts
1:39.0	tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly
1:45.6	evolving cyberspace.
1:47.6	Thanks for joining us. Fishing emails are a very common way to distribute malware.
1:57.0	So the fishing emails, you know,
2:01.6	pretending to be a purchase order and then the attachment is not actually
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