{"id":22348,"date":"2023-06-30T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/30\/news-16078\/"},"modified":"2023-06-30T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T11:00:08","slug":"news-16078","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/30\/news-16078\/","title":{"rendered":"Malvertising Used as Entry Vector for BlackCat, Actors Also Leverage SpyBoy Terminator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Lucas Silva| Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/en_us\/research\/23\/f\/malvertising-used-as-entry-vector-for-blackcat-actors-also-lever.html\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/feeds.trendmicro.com\/TrendMicroSimplySecurity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Lucas Silva| Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We found that malicious actors used malvertising to distribute malware via cloned webpages of legitimate organizations. The distribution involved a webpage of the well-known application WinSCP, an open-source Windows application for file transfer. We were able to identify that this activity led to a BlackCat (aka ALPHV) infection, and actors also used SpyBoy, a terminator that tampers with protection provided by agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10378,10413],"tags":[24512,24527,24526,24511,24782],"class_list":["post-22348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-trendmicro","tag-trend-micro-research-articles-news-reports","tag-trend-micro-research-endpoints","tag-trend-micro-research-malware","tag-trend-micro-research-research","tag-trend-micro-research-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}