Beware: This new malware can steal your passwords and hijack your webcam

bgrpro65 mai 18, 2021

Cybersecurity news has been dominated in recent days by the fallout from the Russian ransomware gang you've no doubt heard about by now, the one that hacked the IT network of a major US fuel pipeline and sent US national security officials scrambling. We will be reeling from the effects of this attack, one way or another, for a long time to come, while there is still a slew of additional new threats and cybersecurity news keeping security professionals on multiple fronts.

Microsoft in recent days sent out an alert about one such threat -- a remote access tool called RevengeRAT that Microsoft appears to be targeting the aerospace and travel industries with spear-phishing emails. This particular threat is delivered via an email designed to fool the recipient into thinking it's genuine and thus opening it, along with an attached Adobe PDF file that goes on to download a malicious file.