Security News > 2024 > March > New Phishing Attack Uses Clever Microsoft Office Trick to Deploy NetSupport RAT
2024-03-19 05:28
A new phishing campaign is targeting U.S. organizations with the intent to deploy a remote access trojan called NetSupport RAT. Israeli cybersecurity company Perception Point is tracking the activity under the moniker Operation PhantomBlu. "The PhantomBlu operation introduces a nuanced exploitation method, diverging from NetSupport RAT’s typical delivery mechanism by leveraging OLE (Object
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