Life on a crooked RedLine: Analyzing the infamous infostealer’s backend
Following the takedown of RedLine Stealer by international authorities, ESET researchers are publicly releasing their research into the infostealer’s backend modules.
LummaC2 Malware Abusing the Game Platform 'Steam' - ASEC BLOG
LummaC2 is an Infostealer that is being actively distributed, disguised as illegal programs (e.g. cracks, keygens, and game hacking programs) available from distribution websites, YouTube, and LinkedIn using the SEO poisoning technique. Recently, it has also been distributed via search engine ads, posing as web pages of Notion, Slack, Capcut, etc. Reference: Distribution of MSIX Malware Disguised as Notion Installer
Iraq-based cybercriminals deploy malicious Python packages to steal data
An information-stealing script embedded in a Python package on the popular repository PyPI appears to be connected to a cybercriminal operation based in Iraq, according to researchers at Checkmarx.
Last week, a security researcher sent me 122GB of data scraped out of thousands of Telegram channels. It contained 1.7k files with 2B lines and 361M unique email addresses of which 151M had never been seen in HIBP before. Alongside those addresses were passwords and, in many cases, the website the data pertains to. I've loaded it into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) today because there's a huge amount of previously unseen email addresses and based on all the checks I've done, it's legitimate data. That's the high-level overview, now here are the details:
Infostealers continue to pose threat to macOS users
Jamf Threat Labs dissects ongoing infostealer attacks targeting macOS users. Each with different means of compromising victim’s Macs but with similar aims: to steal sensitive user data.