Security News > 2024 > August > PEAKLIGHT Downloader Deployed in Attacks Targeting Windows with Malicious Movie Downloads
2024-08-23 15:02
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen dropper that serves as a conduit to launch next-stage malware with the ultimate goal of infecting Windows systems with information stealers and loaders. "This memory-only dropper decrypts and executes a PowerShell-based downloader," Google-owned Mandiant said. "This PowerShell-based downloader is being tracked as PEAKLIGHT." Some of
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