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07 December 2023

Vjw0rm goes back to hiding in an email about beauty products

According to a report on 15 December 2022, the Vjw0rm malware is currently being used in a phishing campaign targeting Italy. The emails in these attacks impersonate a beauty product vendor and hide the malware in a js file in a "rar" attachment named "$38,570 detailed invoice payment". Vjw0rm is a hybrid modular/RAT worm that has three main capabilities: information theft, denial of service (DOS) and self-propagation. In the latter case, it copies itself throughout the operating system and boot folder and can spread via removable devices such as USB sticks. 

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