The Raspberry Robin malware, also known as the QNAP worm, has now set its sights on financial and insurance companies in Europe as it continues to become more sophisticated and difficult to analyze by information security experts, The Hacker News reports.
In a new report by Security Joes, Raspberry Robin has allegedly been recently used against Spanish and Portuguese-speaking organizations and exhibited more complex analysis-resisting traits alongside an ability to collect more data from victims' machines than previously recorded.
"What is unique about the malware is that it is heavily obfuscated and highly complex to statically disassemble," according to the report.
According to the Security Joe report, one attack method used involved social engineering to lead the victim to download a 7-Zip file via a browser, with the file then dropping multiple modules by activating an MSI installer file. The researchers noted that the shellcode downloader has been upgraded to enable it to deliver different payloads based on their victims' profiles, and has been observed serving fake malware to deceive victims.
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North Korean hackers have stolen $630 million in cryptocurrency assets in 2022, the highest on record, reports Reuters. Sophisticated techniques have been leveraged by North Korean threat actors to facilitate the record-high theft of virtual assets, which are being allocated toward its nuclear weapons programs, according to a United Nations report. Such a figure comes after a cybersecurity firm earlier reported that more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency have been stolen by North Koreans last year. "The variation in USD value of cryptocurrency in recent months is likely to have affected these estimates, but both show that 2022 was a record-breaking year for DPRK (North Korea) virtual asset theft," said the U.N. report.
Several financial institutions in Brazil have been targeted by the novel Android banking trojan PixPirate that exploits the PIX payments platform for fraudulent activities, according to The Hacker News.