Hacks

Researchers discovered a mass malware distribution campaign that utilizing the well-known political figures in the U.S. including President Donald Trump, former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton with a series of ransomware, screen lockers, RATs and other malicious applications. A variety of malicious applications uncovered with this campaign, and it was developed to infect the victims with ransomware, implant a backdoor in organization networks with political motivation. Researchers believe that the malware authors are motivated by their political beliefs and turned into malware distribution in different forms. Malware Infection Process Initially, attackers deliver the malware via malspam email campaigns with fake body content related to banking fraud alerts, and it comes from the director of Global Risk for credit card company Visa. The malspam emails come with a malicious attachment that contains RTF files, once it opened, RTF documents retrieve a malicious PE32 e