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In a research, Sophos describes new variants of the miner that include a PowerShell script that attempts to disable malware protection.

Cybersecurity firm Sophos has released new findings on the Tor2Mine cryptominer in new research Two flavours of Tor2Mine miner dig deep into networks...

Sophos researchers today published a report on updates to Agent Tesla, a family of remote access Trojan (RAT) malware that has grown more popular in recent months. Its developers are buckling down on defense evasion with several techniques, such as targeting Microsofts Anti-Malware Software Interface (AMSI), to slip past security tools and remain persistent on a device. Agent Tesla, offered as a form of malware-as-a-service, has been active since 2014 and remains a common threat to Windows mach...

Agent Tesla trojan finds new ways to sneak past defences Updated versions of Agent Tesla Rat include new techniques that fiddle with code to disable endpoint protection tools on target systems Share this item with your network: By Published: 02 Feb 2021 14:00 Two updated versions of Agent Tesla, the widely used information stealer and remote access trojan (Rat), now contain new evasive techniques designed to disable endpoint protection tools on target systems before delivering malware payl...

On Tuesday, Sophos researchers said that two new variants of the Remote Access Trojan (RAT) are targeting Microsoft Anti-Malware Software Interface (AMSI), scanning and analysis software designed to prevent malware infections from taking hold.  Agent Tesla operators will now attempt to tamper with AMSI to degrade its defenses and remove endpoint protection at the point of execution. If successful, this allows the malware to deploy its full payload.  First discovered in 2014, Agent Tesla is a...