Hackers Hijack Blender 3D Assets to Deploy StealC V2 Data-Stealing Malware
Cybersecurity experts have revealed information on a recent campaign that used Blender Foundation files to distribute StealC V2, an information stealer.
Malicious implants are part of this continuous operation, which has been going on for at least six months.According to a revelation provided with The Hacker News by Morphisec researcher Shmuel Uzan, blend files on platforms such as CGTrader.
These 3D model files, which are intended to run embedded Python scripts when opened in Blender—a free, open-source 3D creation suite—are downloaded by users without their knowledge.
According to the cybersecurity firm, the activity is comparable to a previous effort connected to Russian-speaking threat actors that targeted the online gaming community by posing as the Electronic Frontier Found...