Threats Tagged 'clipper'

On August 31, 2026, U.S., Bulgarian, Hungarian, and Romanian authorities, collaborating with CrowdStrike and Shadowserver Foundation, successfully disrupted the Sality botnet through a peer-to-peer sinkhole operation. Active since 2003, Sality infects Windows executables and spreads malware for credential theft, spam distribution, and DDoS attacks. The botnet delivered EggJagger clipper malware, stealing at least $150,000 through cryptocurrency wallet substitution. The takedown exploited Sality's P2P architecture weakness by manipulating peer lists, isolating over 15,000 infected machines from threat actor control. This peer list manipulation technique prevented payload distribution by inserting sinkhole entries and removing legitimate peers. Associated domains were seized across U.S. and Europe. While the disruption stops new payloads, existing infections remain active requiring remediation. The operation demonstrates that resilient P2P criminal infrastructure can be dismantled through coordinated law enf...

A phishing campaign impersonates sales staff from overseas companies, sending emails with malicious GZ compressed files. Extracting these files delivers an injector executable that uses multiple UAC bypass techniques and exploits a vulnerable driver (DCRCVDrv.sys) to disable security products at the kernel level. The injector then uses process hollowing to inject PhantomStealer malware into a legitimate process. PhantomStealer steals sensitive information including keystrokes, screenshots, browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallet data, and manipulates clipboard contents to replace wallet addresses with attacker-controlled ones.