Malicious actors are using one of the James Webb telescope’s first images to spread malware, the Securonix Threat research team has discovered.
Malicious actors are using one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images to spread malware, the Securonix Threat research team hasThe malware campaign has been dubbed “GO#WEBBFUSCATOR” and allows attackers to take control of a system or steal data.
That attachment contains a hidden external reference in its metadata which downloads a malicious template file. The code pulls a jpeg file, the stunning and much-shared image of a cluster of galaxies taken by JWST, from the same C2 server as the Microsoft Office document. The team discovered URL strings which showed the binary file was using a DNS data exfiltration technique to a target C2 DNS server.“The encrypted messages are read in and unencrypted on the C2 server, thus revealing its original contents.”
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