Security News > 2024 > January > Hackers Weaponize Windows Flaw to Deploy Crypto-Siphoning Phemedrone Stealer
2024-01-16 07:13
Threat actors have been observed leveraging a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows to deploy an open-source information stealer called Phemedrone Stealer. “Phemedrone targets web browsers and data from cryptocurrency wallets and messaging apps such as Telegram, Steam, and Discord,” Trend Micro researchers Peter Girnus, Aliakbar Zahravi, and Simon Zuckerbraun said. “It also
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