Security News > 2022 > November > Hackers Using Trending TikTok 'Invisible Challenge' to Spread Malware
Threat actors are capitalizing on a popular TikTok challenge to trick users into downloading information-stealing malware, according to new research from Checkmarx.
The trend, called Invisible Challenge, involves applying a filter called Invisible Body that just leaves behind a silhouette of the person's body.
"Instructions to get the 'unfilter' software deploy WASP stealer malware hiding inside malicious Python packages," Checkmarx researcher Guy Nachshon said in a Monday analysis.
The WASP stealer is a malware that's designed to steal users' passwords, Discord accounts, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive information.
Victims joining the Discord server subsequently receive a link to a GitHub repository that hosts the malware.
The attacker has since renamed the project to "Nitro-generator" but not before it landed on GitHub's Trending repositories list for November 27, 2022, by urging the new members on Discord to star the project.
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