Silver Fox APT Targets Taiwan with Complex Gh0stCringe and HoldingHands RAT Malware
Researchers studying cybersecurity are alerting people in Taiwan to a new phishing effort that uses malware families including Gh0stCringe and HoldingHands RAT.
According to a report provided to The Hacker News by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, the action is a part of a larger effort that sent phishing communications posing as Taiwan's National Taxation Bureau early this January in order to distribute the Winos 4.0 malware framework.
The cybersecurity firm claimed to have discovered more malware samples through ongoing surveillance and to have seen the same threat actor, known as Silver Fox APT, distribute Gh0stCringe and a malware strain based on HoldingHands RAT via phishing emails using malware-infected PDF documents or ZIP files.
It is important to note that Gh0stCringe and Holdin...