What if I told you this threat campaign uses an exploit that “downdates” your web browser to a version that is unprotected from attack? Yep, you heard right.
Another threat group using an Android exploit kit, and a backdoor that targets both Android and Windows users, could easily slip under your reading radar. After all, there are justdropping week after week that it can become somewhat overwhelming.
I’m not going to go into all the details of this campaign, although it is well worth a read, and I heartily recommend you read the Trend Micro report. Instead, I want to focus just on the browser downdate aspect of the exploit kit. Moonshine, like most exploit kits of this type, looks for known vulnerabilities it can exploit. In this case, it is looking for multiple known vulnerabilities that exist in Chromium-based web browsers such as Chrome, Edge and so on. Or rather, I should say, existed.
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