{"id":1813,"date":"2024-08-23T17:14:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T17:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/new-peaklight-dropper-deployed-in-attacks-targeting-windows-with-malicious-movie-downloads\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T17:14:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T17:14:03","slug":"new-peaklight-dropper-deployed-in-attacks-targeting-windows-with-malicious-movie-downloads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/new-peaklight-dropper-deployed-in-attacks-targeting-windows-with-malicious-movie-downloads\/","title":{"rendered":"New PEAKLIGHT Dropper Deployed in Attacks Targeting Windows with Malicious Movie Downloads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen dropper that serves as a conduit to launch next-stage malware with the ultimate goal of infecting Windows systems with information stealers and loaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This memory-only dropper decrypts and executes a PowerShell-based downloader,&#8221; Google-owned Mandiant said. &#8220;This PowerShell-based downloader is being tracked as PEAKLIGHT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen dropper that serves as a conduit to launch next-stage malware with the ultimate goal of infecting Windows systems with information stealers and loaders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This memory-only dropper decrypts and executes a PowerShell-based downloader,&#8221; Google-owned Mandiant said. &#8220;This PowerShell-based downloader is being tracked as PEAKLIGHT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen dropper that serves as a conduit to launch next-stage malware with the ultimate goal of infecting Windows systems with information stealers and loaders. &#8220;This memory-only dropper decrypts and executes a PowerShell-based downloader,&#8221; Google-owned Mandiant said. &#8220;This PowerShell-based downloader is being tracked as PEAKLIGHT.&#8221; Some of\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2024\/08\/23\/new-peaklight-dropper-deployed-in-attacks-targeting-windows-with-malicious-movie-downloads\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New PEAKLIGHT Dropper Deployed in Attacks Targeting Windows with Malicious Movie Downloads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1814,"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\/1813"}],"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=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}