Remcos RAT Spread via Hijacked School, Small Business Accounts

Remcos Malware Returns with Path-Poisoning Trickery to Fool Windows and Users Alike

In the ever-evolving chess match between malware authors and defenders, the Remcos remote access trojan (RAT) is back on the board with a clever new opening move: abusing Windows path-parsing logic to hide in plain sight.Remcos, a persistent RAT with a long track record of espionage, keylogging, and credential theft, has resurfaced in a stealthy campaign leveraging legitimate-looking shortcuts, spoofed directories, and novel uses of obscure Wind…

Hackers Deliver Remcos Malware Via .pif Files And UAC Bypass In Windows - Cybernoz - Cybersecurity News

A sophisticated phishing campaign has emerged, distributing the notorious Remcos Remote Access Trojan (RAT) through the DBatLoader malware. This attack chain, analyzed in ANY.RUN’s Interactive Sandbox, leverages a combination of User Account Control (UAC) bypass techniques, obfuscated scripts, Living Off the Land Binaries (LOLBAS) abuse, and persistence mechanisms to infiltrate systems undetected. The campaign begins with a phishing email contai…

Hackers Deliver Remcos Malware Via .pif Files and UAC Bypass in Windows

A sophisticated phishing campaign has emerged, distributing the notorious Remcos Remote Access Trojan (RAT) through the DBatLoader malware. This attack chain, analyzed in ANY.RUN’s Interactive Sandbox, leverages a combination of User Account Control (UAC) bypass techniques, obfuscated scripts, Living Off the Land Binaries (LOLBAS) abuse, and persistence mechanisms to infiltrate systems undetected. The campaign begins […] The post Hackers Deliver…

Remcos RAT spread via hijacked school, small business accounts

Schools and small businesses have had their email accounts breached to spread phishing emails delivering the Remcos RAT malware in attack campaigns since last year, Hackread reports. Introduction to Malware Binary Tria…