Attacks commence with the distribution of malicious purchase confirmation emails.
Threat actors have been using fraudulent credit card alerts to enable password-stealing malware compromise.
According to an analysis from the AhnLab Security Intelligence Center and reported by Cybernews, attacks commence with the distribution of malicious purchase confirmation emails - purportedly from credit card firms - that include an HTML-spoofing LNK file attachment.
This opens a seemingly legitimate security page that downloads an HTA file, which facilitates the deployment of a malicious DLL that compromises targeted systems' Chrome browser with malware through reflective DLL injection.
Aside from enabling keylogging and data exfiltration, the injected malware also allows backdoor access for subsequent intrusions, said researchers.
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