Hackers Target the North American Hotel Industry With a RAT

guest · Aug 13, 2019

Hackers Target the North American Hotel Industry With a RAT
August 13, 2019
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A malspam campaign was spotted by security researchers while targeting the financial staff of multiple entities from the North American hotel industry, using malicious attachments to drop the NetWiredRC Remote Access Trojan (RAT) on unsuspecting victims.
The spam emails sent by this malicious campaign's operators attempt to trick the targeted hotel employees into opening an attachment disguised as an invoice detailing arrears in the form of outstanding bills with more information on the services and goods that haven't yet been paid.

Security researches from Qihoo 360 Security Center found that the attachments are used to infect the victims' computers with a NetWiredRC RAT which enables the attackers to gain unauthorized access and remotely control their victims' computers, as well as steal information among a host of other things.

Login credentials can also be stolen if they're saved within "IE, Comode Dragon, Yandex, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Chromium, Opera browsers and OutLook, ThundBird, SeaMonkey, and other mail clients" as detailed in Qihoo's report.
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