This critical credential-stealing threat hides in your email, waiting to strike—here’s how it works and how to stop it.
Update, Jan. 19, 2025: This story, originally published Jan. 18, now includes mitigation advice to help protect against the hidden email hacking tactic used by the VIP Keylogger and 0bj3ctivityStealer threat campaigns.against Microsoft accounts or two-factor authentication bypass attacks against Google users. The primary initial attack methodology revolves around your email,alike.
Security researchers have reported how they caught malware campaigns spreading the VIP Keylogger and 0bj3ctivityStealer hacking threats both using the same initial exploit techniques: hiding malicious code in images. VIP Keylogger can record keystrokes and exfiltrate credentials from a number of sources including apps and clipboard data. 0bj3ctivityStealer is also, as the name suggests, an information stealer and targets both account credentials and credit card data.
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