Cybersecurity

GuptiMiner: Hijacking Antivirus Updates for Distributing Backdoors and Casual Mining – Avast Threat Labs

Key Points Avast discovered and analyzed a malware campaign hijacking an eScan antivirus update mechanism to distribute backdoors and coinminers Avast disclosed the vulnerability to both eScan antivirus and India CERT. On 2023-07-31, eScan confirmed that the issue was fixed and successfully resolved The campaign was orchestrated by a threat actor with possible ties to […]