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Research by: Israel Gubi
During the past week, Check Point Research spotted a new version of Azorult in the wild being delivered through the RIG exploit kit, as well as other sources. Azorult is a long known information stealer and malware downloader, with this particular version being advertised in an underground forum since October 4. The version number given to it by its authors is 3.3.
There are quite a few changes in this newly witnessed variant, the most prominent ones being a new encryption method of the embedded C&C domain string, a new connection method to the C&C and improvement of the Crypto currency wallets stealer and loader.
The timing of this update to the ma…
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