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U.S. Govt Agency Falls Victim to CARROTBALL Malware Dropper in Spear Phishing Campaign



A new malware called CARROTBALL, used as a second-stage payload in targeted attacks, was distributed in phishing email attachments delivered to a U.S. government agency and non-US foreign nationals professionally affiliated with current activities in North Korea.


A new malware dropper named 'NullMixer' is infecting Windows devices with a dozen different malware families simultaneously through fake software cracks promoted on malicious sites in Google Search results.




U.S. Govt Agency Hit With New CARROTBALL Malware Dropper




A new malware dropper was observed while infecting computers with a Netwire malicious payload hidden between two benign binaries and using obfuscation to fly under the radar of most anti-malware solutions.


The Pale Moon web browser team announced today that their Windows archive servers were breached an the hackers infected all archived installers of Pale Moon 27.6.2 and below with a malware dropper on December 27, 2017. 2ff7e9595c


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