{"id":1354,"date":"2024-07-10T07:12:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/vipersoftx-malware-disguises-as-ebooks-on-torrents-to-spread-stealthy-attacks\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T07:12:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:12:34","slug":"vipersoftx-malware-disguises-as-ebooks-on-torrents-to-spread-stealthy-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/vipersoftx-malware-disguises-as-ebooks-on-torrents-to-spread-stealthy-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"ViperSoftX Malware Disguises as eBooks on Torrents to Spread Stealthy Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe sophisticated malware known as ViperSoftX has been observed being distributed as eBooks over torrents.<br \/>\n&#8220;A notable aspect of the current variant of ViperSoftX is that it uses the Common Language Runtime (CLR) to dynamically load and run PowerShell commands, thereby creating a PowerShell environment within AutoIt for operations,&#8221; Trellix security researchers Mathanraj Thangaraju and Sijo Jacob\u00a0The sophisticated malware known as ViperSoftX has been observed being distributed as eBooks over torrents.<br \/>\n&#8220;A notable aspect of the current variant of ViperSoftX is that it uses the Common Language Runtime (CLR) to dynamically load and run PowerShell commands, thereby creating a PowerShell environment within AutoIt for operations,&#8221; Trellix security researchers Mathanraj Thangaraju and Sijo Jacob\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThe sophisticated malware known as ViperSoftX has been observed being distributed as eBooks over torrents. &#8220;A notable aspect of the current variant of ViperSoftX is that it uses the Common Language Runtime (CLR) to dynamically load and run PowerShell commands, thereby creating a PowerShell environment within AutoIt for operations,&#8221; Trellix security researchers Mathanraj Thangaraju and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/07\/10\/vipersoftx-malware-disguises-as-ebooks-on-torrents-to-spread-stealthy-attacks\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ViperSoftX Malware Disguises as eBooks on Torrents to Spread Stealthy Attacks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}