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Zyklon Malware

Hackers Are Exploiting Three Microsoft Flaws For Spreading Zyklon Malware

Security researchers have identified a new in-kind Zyklon malware campaign that spreads advanced botnet malware using at least three newly disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. Nicknamed Zyklon, the complete malware reappeared after almost two years and focused mainly on telecommunications, insurance, and financial services. Active since early 2016, Zyklon malware is an HTTP botnet malware […]

New Microsoft Office Vulnerabilities Used to Distribute Zyklon Malware that Creating Backdoor

Recently patched critical Microsoft office vulnerabilities are used for distributing powerful Zyklon Malware that has some sophisticated functionalities such as creating a backdoor in victims machine. Zyklon Malware has widely spread across the world since 2016 and its mainly targeting Telecommunications, Insurance, Financial Services. A Backdoor that creates by Zyklon Malware has capable of keylogging, password harvesting, downloading […]

Microsoft Office Vulnerabilities Used to Distribute Zyklon Malware in Recent Campaign

Zyklon is a publicly available, full-featured backdoor capable of keylogging, password harvesting, downloading and executing additional plugins, conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and self-updating and self-removal. The malware may communicate with its command and control (C2) server over The Onion Router (Tor) network if configured to do so. The malware can download several plugins, some […]