Infostealer

In recent years, ransomware has become one of the most serious threats in the cybersecurity landscape. It no longer targets large enterprises only; cybercriminals now also target SMEs, educational institutions, and even the healthcare sector. The impact can be severe, ranging from operational disruption and loss of critical data to financial losses due to ransom payments. Readers can see continuously updated ransomware victims on Ransomware Live. From there, we can observe that ransomware …

The Beginning This December I received a notification from a Facebook group that I follow. In the post (now deleted), there was a screenshot like the image above, complete with the caption: “Is this dangerous or not? Why does the captcha look strange?” In the comments, the Thread Starter added another screenshot containing text that had to be pasted into the run.exe program as shown below It is very clear that this is malware. mshta is a built-in Windows file whose function is to …