PowerShell malware

Malware

Sep 15, 2022

Russian Gamaredon Hackers Target Ukrainian Government Using Info-Stealing Malware

An ongoing espionage campaign operated by the Russia-linked Gamaredon group is targeting employees of Ukrainian government, defense, and law enforcement agencies with a piece of custom-made information stealing malware. “The adversary is using phishing documents containing lures related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” Cisco Talos researchers Asheer Malhotra and Guilherme Venere said in a […]

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Data Security

Mar 03, 2017

Researchers uncover PowerShell Trojan that uses DNS queries to get its orders

Delivered by “secure” Word doc, pure PowerShell malware fetches commands from DNS TXT records. Researchers at Cisco’s Talos threat research group are publishing research today on a targeted attack delivered by a malicious Microsoft Word document that goes to great lengths to conceal its operations. Based entirely on Windows PowerShell scripts, the remote access tool […]

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Hacked

Apr 18, 2016

Microsoft PowerShell — Hackers’ New Favorite Tool For Coding Malware

Short Bytes: You might not know but PowerShell, the ubiquitous force running behind the Windows environment, is slowly becoming a secure way for the attackers to hide their malicious activities. Unfortunately, at the moment, there’s no technical method of distinguishing between malicious and good PowerShell source code. In a new report, it has been discovered […]

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