Spam campaign using Discord to host malware

Cyjax researchers have observed a recent malicious spam campaign pushing commodity malware such as the AgentTesla infostealer and AveMaria remote access Trojan (RAT). This campaign caught our attention due to its reliance on Discord, the instant messaging and VoIP application, to host its payloads. The spam emails are sent from spoofed sender addresses and masquerade …

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Geopolitical and Cybersecurity Weekly – 4 May 2020

COVID-19 Cybersecurity Update Since January, there has been a boom in threat actors capitalising on the COVID-19 pandemic – ZScaler reported a 30,000 per cent increase in phishing, malicious websites, and malware in this period. As the pandemic has continued, however, and lockdowns have affected cybercriminals as well as law-abiding citizens, there has been a …

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