The goal of a recent phishing attempt is to infect American companies with the remote access malware known as NetSupport RAT.
Operation PhantomBlu is the name given to the activities that is being tracked by the Israeli cybersecurity company Perception Point.
Security researcher Ariel Davidpur stated, “The PhantomBlu operation introduces a nuanced exploitation method that deviates from the standard delivery mechanism of NetSupport RAT by leveraging OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) template manipulation, exploiting Microsoft Office document templates to execute malicious code while evading detection.”
A malicious branch of the legitimate remote desktop program NetSupport Manager read more New Phishing Attack Uses Clever Microsoft Office Trick to Deploy NetSupport RAT.
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