Microsoft Spots Nodersok Malware Campaign That Zombifies PCs

From bleepingcomputer.com

Microsoft Spots Nodersok Malware Campaign That Zombifies PCs

Unlike other fileless malware attacks that only use living-off-the-land binaries (LOLBins) present on the devices they compromise, the attackers behind Nodersok have been observed while also delivering the legitimate Node.exe Node.js framework and the Windows Packet Divert (WinDivert) network packet capture tool to devices they target.

A new fileless malicious campaign, dubbed Nodersok by Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team researchers who discovered it, drops its own LOLBins to infect Windows computers with a Node.js-based malware that will turn the devices into proxies.

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