{"id":6906,"date":"2026-02-04T19:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/deadvax-malware-campaign-deploys-asyncrat-via-ipfs-hosted-vhd-phishing-files\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:14:16","slug":"deadvax-malware-campaign-deploys-asyncrat-via-ipfs-hosted-vhd-phishing-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/deadvax-malware-campaign-deploys-asyncrat-via-ipfs-hosted-vhd-phishing-files\/","title":{"rendered":"DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of &#8220;disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features&#8221; to bypass traditional detection mechanisms and deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) known as AsyncRAT.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attack leverages IPFS-hosted VHD files, extreme script obfuscation, runtime decryption, and in-memory\u00a0Threat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of &#8220;disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features&#8221; to bypass traditional detection mechanisms and deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) known as AsyncRAT.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attack leverages IPFS-hosted VHD files, extreme script obfuscation, runtime decryption, and in-memory\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of &#8220;disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features&#8221; to bypass traditional detection mechanisms and deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) known as AsyncRAT. &#8220;The attack leverages IPFS-hosted VHD files, extreme script obfuscation, runtime decryption, and in-memory\u00a0Threat&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/04\/deadvax-malware-campaign-deploys-asyncrat-via-ipfs-hosted-vhd-phishing-files\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6907,"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\/6906"}],"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=6906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}