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Attackers have increasingly leveraged the widely used remote access tool, installed on hundreds of millions of endpoints, to break into victim environments.
Security teams need to start factoring for these tools when thinking about the software supply chain. After all, they can't protect what they don't know they have.
Just in time for the US election season, one of the Kremlin's favorite hack-and-leak spy groups (aka Star Blizzard) has developed its very first custom backdoor.
The "Infernal Drainer" campaign represents a dangerous evolution in crypto-drainers, believably spoofing Coinbase and maintaining a vast infrastructure-for-rent biz.
Dark Reading research finds increased collaboration between security incident responders and groups within the HR, legal, and communications functions.