Steganography
New ClickFix attacks abuse Windows App-V scripts to push malware
A new malicious campaign mixes the ClickFix method with fake CAPTCHA and a signed Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) script to ultimately deliver the Amatera infostealing malware. The Microsoft App-V script acts as a living-off-the-land binary that proxies the execution of PowerShell through a trusted Microsoft component to disguise the malicious activity. Microsoft Application Virtualization is an enterprise Windows […]
Malicious NPM package uses Unicode steganography to evade detection
A malicious package in the Node Package Manager index uses invisible Unicode characters to hide malicious code and Google Calendar links to host the URL for the command-and-control location. The package, named os-info-checker-es6, appears as an information utility and has been downloaded more than 1,000 times since the beginning of the month. Researchers at Veracode, a code security assessment […]