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1/ DEV-0569, current distribution via #GoogleAds.

1.- #Gozi aka #Ursnif (bot) ↓
2.- #RedLine (stealer) ↓
And if the conditions are right, possibly:
3.- #CobaltStrike (C2) ↓
4.- #Royal Ransomware 💥

(No more BatLoader in the infection chain)
2/ For deployment, they use Add-MpPreference to configure exclusions in Windows Defender (extensions, paths and processes), #NSudo to launch binaries with full privileges and #GnuPG to encrypt the payloads.

Initial MSI file has 0 hits in VT.
3/ All payloads are hosted on @Bitbucket, in a repository that was created in August 2022.

In just 3 days, #Gozi and #RedLine have been downloaded 2477 and 2503 times respectively.

ZLocal.gpg has been downloaded more than 48193 times since December 24, 2022 (potential victims).
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Recent reports on the #OpenPGP #keyserver certificate poisoning attacks have focused on the SKS keyserver implemented in OCaml, which is basically a replicated, censor-resistant, append-only database for unverified key material. But what about #gnupg's role in the attack? /thread
Historically, the PGP tool used the same OpenPGP data structure internally and externally: PGP Keys (public or secret) are a sequence of OpenPGP packets. First there is a signing key packet, then a user id packet, followed by a binding signature, and then web of trust signatures.
The old pubring.gpg is such a sequence of OpenPGP packets. All operations on the list of keys (looking up a key by id or user name, searching for a trust path in the web of trust, deleting a key, etc) require a linear scan, fully parsing every packet from the top down.
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