{"id":7649,"date":"2026-04-02T12:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/researchers-uncover-mining-operation-using-iso-lures-to-spread-rats-and-crypto-miners\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:11:33","slug":"researchers-uncover-mining-operation-using-iso-lures-to-spread-rats-and-crypto-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/researchers-uncover-mining-operation-using-iso-lures-to-spread-rats-and-crypto-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Uncover Mining Operation Using ISO Lures to Spread RATs and Crypto Miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA\u00a0financially motivated operation\u00a0codenamed REF1695\u00a0has been\u00a0observed leveraging fake installers to deploy remote access trojans (RATs) and cryptocurrency miners since November\u00a02023.<br \/>\n&#8220;Beyond cryptomining, the threat actor monetizes infections through CPA (Cost Per Action) fraud, directing victims to content locker pages under the guise of software registration,&#8221; Elastic\u00a0A\u00a0financially motivated operation\u00a0codenamed REF1695\u00a0has been\u00a0observed leveraging fake installers to deploy remote access trojans (RATs) and cryptocurrency miners since November\u00a02023.<br \/>\n&#8220;Beyond cryptomining, the threat actor monetizes infections through CPA (Cost Per Action) fraud, directing victims to content locker pages under the guise of software registration,&#8221; Elastic\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA\u00a0financially motivated operation\u00a0codenamed REF1695\u00a0has been\u00a0observed leveraging fake installers to deploy remote access trojans (RATs) and cryptocurrency miners since November\u00a02023. &#8220;Beyond cryptomining, the threat actor monetizes infections through CPA (Cost Per Action) fraud, directing victims to content locker pages under the guise of software registration,&#8221; Elastic\u00a0A\u00a0financially motivated operation\u00a0codenamed REF1695\u00a0has been\u00a0observed leveraging fake installers to deploy remote&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/04\/02\/researchers-uncover-mining-operation-using-iso-lures-to-spread-rats-and-crypto-miners\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Researchers Uncover Mining Operation Using ISO Lures to Spread RATs and Crypto Miners<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7650,"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\/7649"}],"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=7649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}