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It is actively delivering malicious payloads through highly-focused campaigns in the US, South Korea and Germany

2 March 2021, 11:00 pm EST By A new hacking method is used by exploiters and dark entities on the web and it would make use of SEO or search engine optimization on a company's website before injecting deeply embedded malware to attack its systems. The malware is now identified as "Gootloader" and while it may seem that the group is optimizing the webpage, they are doing the opposite of it. (Photo : Screenshot From Pexels Official Website) SEO is one of the best ways to rank up a website for more searches and gathering an audience under Google's search engine and features particularly with n...

Gootloader has expanded its payloads beyond the Gootkit malware family, using Google SEO poisoning to gain traction. The Gootloader malware loader, previously used for distributing the Gootkit malware family, has undergone what researchers call a “renaissance” when it comes to payload delivery. New research released this week paints Gootloader as an increasingly sophisticated loader framework, which has now expanded the number of payloads its delivers beyond Gootkit (and in some cases, the previously-distributed REvil ransomware), to include the Kronos trojan and the Cobalt Strike comm...