The threat actor known as DeathStalker has continued to target and disrupt foreign and cryptocurrency exchanges around the world throughout 2022 using the VileRAT malware, according to security researchers from Kaspersky.
The findings are detailed in an advisory published on August 10 2022, which mentions a number of VileRAT-focussed campaigns supposedly perpetrated by DeathStalker, starting in September 2020, through 2021 and more recently in June 2022.
“DeathStalker has indeed continuously leveraged and updated its VileRAT toolchain against the same type of targets since we first identified it in June 2020,” reads the advisory.
Despite the existence of public indicators of compromise, Kaspersky said the DeathStalker campaign is not only ongoing at the time of writing, but also that the threat actor likely increased its efforts to compromise targets using VileRAT recently.
“We have indeed been able to identify more samples of VileRAT-associated malicious files and new...
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