Attackers Abuse Python, Cloudflare to Deliver AsyncRAT
The phishing campaign shows how attackers continue to weaponize legitimate cloud services and open source tools to evade detection and gain trust.
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The phishing campaign shows how attackers continue to weaponize legitimate cloud services and open source tools to evade detection and gain trust.
Unlike typical data-stealing malware, this attack tool targets data specific to corporate and cloud infrastructures in order to execute supply chain attacks.
The "Census of Free and Open Source Software" report, which identifies the most critical software projects, sees more cloud infrastructure and Python software designated as critical software components.
Attackers could have exploited a dependency confusion vulnerability affecting various Google Cloud services to execute a sprawling supply chain attack via just one malicious Python code package.
Using a custom Python script to send bulk phishing messages with a USPS lure, the cyberattackers are posing a risk to consumer-facing organizations moving workloads to the cloud.