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Threat actors now use OneNote attachments in phishing emails that infect victims with remote access malware which can be used to install further malware, steal passwords, or even cryptocurrency wallets. This comes after attackers have been distributing malware in emails using malicious Word and Excel attachments that launch macros to download and install malware for years.

Threat actors now use OneNote attachments in phishing emails that infect victims with remote access malware which can be used to install further malware, steal passwords, or even cryptocurrency wallets. This comes after attackers have been distributing malware in emails using malicious Word and Excel attachments that launch macros to download and install malware for years.

Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the feature is designed to target specific Wi-Fi routers located in South Korea.

The attackers were focused on maintaining persistence on exploited devices by using the custom malware to patch the FortiOS logging processes so that specific log entries could be removed or to disable the logging process altogether. Yesterday, Mandiant published a report about a suspected Chinese espionage campaign leveraging the FortiOS flaw since October 2022 using a new 'BOLDMOVE' malware explicitly designed for attacks on FortiOS devices.

A suspected China-nexus threat actor exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Fortinet FortiOS SSL-VPN as a zero-day in attacks targeting a European government entity and a managed service provider located in Africa. The intrusion vector in question relates to the exploitation of CVE-2022-42475, a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in FortiOS SSL-VPN that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution via specifically crafted requests.

A new Android malware named 'Hook' is being sold by cybercriminals, boasting it can remotely take over mobile devices in real-time using VNC. The new malware is promoted by the creator of Ermac, an Android banking trojan selling for $5,000/month that helps threat actors steal credentials from over 467 banking and crypto apps via overlaid login pages. While the author of Hook claims the new malware was written from scratch, and despite having several additional features compared to Ermac, researchers at ThreatFabric dispute these claims and report seeing extensive code overlaps between the two families.

The Roaming Mantis malware distribution campaign has updated its Android malware to include a DNS changer that modifies DNS settings on vulnerable WiFi routers to spread the infection to other devices. O/XLoader Android malware that detects vulnerable WiFi routers based on their model and changes their DNS. The malware then creates an HTTP request to hijack a vulnerable WiFi router's DNS settings, causing connected devices to be rerouted to malicious web pages hosting phishing forms or dropping Android malware.

The threat actor behind the BlackRock and ERMAC Android banking trojans has unleashed yet another malware for rent called Hook that introduces new capabilities to access files stored in the devices and create a remote interactive session. ThreatFabric, in a report shared with The Hacker News, characterized Hook as a novel ERMAC fork that's advertised for sale for $7,000 per month while featuring "All the capabilities of its predecessor."

The volume of cloud-based malware tripled in 2022 over the prior year, says Netskope, with 30% of the malicious downloads coming from Microsoft OneDrive. The post Rise of cloud-delivered malware...