Malware rises from the dead to take vengeance on cryptocurrency trading firms

Malware rises from the dead to take vengeance on cryptocurrency trading firms

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A Trojan-style malware that did the rounds a couple of years ago has risen from the ashes, and is reportedly going after Israeli fintech and cryptocurrency trading software companies. The Cardinal RAT malware was first spotted back in 2017 and went largely undetected for two years. It used a novel technique to infect computers, using a downloader called Carp and malicious macros in Microsoft Excel documents to compile the source code into an executable which then deploys the malware. However, the malware is resurfacing after a recent series of updates which help it “evade detection and hinder analysis,” according to…

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Malware rises from the dead to take vengeance on cryptocurrency trading firms
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