DeathStalker Hacker Group’s New PowerPepper Malware Evade Antivirus Detection to Bypass Windows

From gbhackers.com

DeathStalker Hacker Group’s New PowerPepper Malware Evade Antivirus Detection to Bypass Windows

Researchers uncovered a new Malvertising campaign PowerPepper from DeathStalker threat actor group that is active since 2012, and actively attacking various organizations around the world with financial motivation.

DeathStalker group does not fit under the traditional cybercrime group instead, researchers believe that the group is operating as a hack-for-hire service.

Attackers leveraged the anti-detection and antivirus evasion techniques to avoid detection and are used a method called “dead-drop resolvers” (DDRs) that helps attackers to host their obfuscated content hosted on major public web services like YouTube, Twitter, Reddit to target the victims.

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