A sophisticated malware campaign orchestrated by the Vietnamese Lone None threat actor group has been leveraging fraudulent copyright infringement takedown notices to deploy information-stealing malware onto unsuspecting victims’ systems. The campaign, which has been actively tracked since November 2024, represents a concerning evolution in social engineering tactics that exploits legitimate legal concerns to bypass traditional […]

A sophisticated malware campaign orchestrated by the Vietnamese Lone None threat actor group has been leveraging fraudulent copyright infringement takedown notices to deploy information-stealing malware onto unsuspecting victims’ systems. The campaign, which has been actively tracked since November 2024, represents a concerning evolution in social engineering tactics that exploits legitimate legal concerns to bypass traditional […] The post Threat Actors Using Copyright Takedown Claims to Deploy Malware appeared first on Cyber Security News.

  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t get the social engineering aspect to this.

    “You have infringed on our copyright, please download these files.” What are the files supposed to be?
    Evidence of wrongdoing, the catalog of copyrighted works, the original legal letter or something else?