Threat actors have leveraged web hard drives disguised as adult-themed games to facilitate the distribution of the Remcos RAT surveillance tool across South Korea, The Hacker News reports. Attacks involved the delivery of malicious files purporting to be adult games, which when launched triggered Visual Basic scripts that facilitated the eventual retrieval of Remcos RAT, which enables sensitive data exfiltration through unauthorized device control and surveillance, a report from the AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center revealed.

Source: SC Magazine