From The Hacker News – Silver Fox APT Uses Winos 4.0 Malware in Cyber Attacks Against Taiwanese Organizations

From The Hacker News – Silver Fox APT Uses Winos 4.0 Malware in Cyber Attacks Against Taiwanese Organizations

A new campaign is targeting companies in Taiwan with malware known as Winos 4.0 as part of phishing emails masquerading as the country's National Taxation Bureau. The campaign, detected last month by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, marks a departure from previous attack chains that have leveraged malicious game-related applications. "The sender claimed that the malicious file attached was a list of
From The Hacker News – Fake Google Chrome Sites Distribute ValleyRAT Malware via DLL Hijacking

From The Hacker News – Fake Google Chrome Sites Distribute ValleyRAT Malware via DLL Hijacking

Bogus websites advertising Google Chrome have been used to distribute malicious installers for a remote access trojan called ValleyRAT. The malware, first detected in 2023, is attributed to a threat actor tracked as Silver Fox, with prior attack campaigns primarily targeting Chinese-speaking regions like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. "This actor has increasingly targeted key roles