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Fake TTF files deliver stealthy malware in global phishing campaign

Threat actors are now abusing an ordinary font file to deliver low-detection malware capable of stealing credentials and establishing persistence on compromised Windows systems.

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Threat actors are now abusing an ordinary font file to deliver low-detection malware capable of stealing credentials and establishing persistence on compromised Windows systems. According to a new research from Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, a global phishing campaign is actively using heavily obfuscated JavaScript and a Lua-based loader posing as a TrueType Font (TTF) file to evade security and drop RATs and infostealers.

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