New PEAKLIGHT Dropper Deployed in Attacks Targeting Windows with Malicious Movie Downloads
New PEAKLIGHT Dropper Deployed in Attacks Targeting Windows with Malicious Movie Downloads
23 August 2024
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."
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