{"id":1751,"date":"2024-08-19T13:13:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/cybercriminals-exploit-popular-software-searches-to-spread-fakebat-malware\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T13:13:51","slug":"cybercriminals-exploit-popular-software-searches-to-spread-fakebat-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/cybercriminals-exploit-popular-software-searches-to-spread-fakebat-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybercriminals Exploit Popular Software Searches to Spread FakeBat Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have uncovered a surge in malware infections stemming from malvertising campaigns distributing a loader called FakeBat.<br \/>\n&#8220;These attacks are opportunistic in nature, targeting users seeking popular business software,&#8221; the Mandiant Managed Defense team said in a technical report. &#8220;The infection utilizes a trojanized MSIX installer, which executes a PowerShell script to\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a surge in malware infections stemming from malvertising campaigns distributing a loader called FakeBat.<br \/>\n&#8220;These attacks are opportunistic in nature, targeting users seeking popular business software,&#8221; the Mandiant Managed Defense team said in a technical report. &#8220;The infection utilizes a trojanized MSIX installer, which executes a PowerShell script to\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have uncovered a surge in malware infections stemming from malvertising campaigns distributing a loader called FakeBat. &#8220;These attacks are opportunistic in nature, targeting users seeking popular business software,&#8221; the Mandiant Managed Defense team said in a technical report. &#8220;The infection utilizes a trojanized MSIX installer, which executes a PowerShell script to\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/cybercriminals-exploit-popular-software-searches-to-spread-fakebat-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cybercriminals Exploit Popular Software Searches to Spread FakeBat Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1752,"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\/1751"}],"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=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}