Parallax RAT

A remote access Trojan named Parallax is being widely distributed through malicious spam campaigns that when installed allow attackers to gain full control over an infected system.

Being offered for as low as $65 a month, attackers have started to heavily use this malware to gain access to a victim’s computer to steal their saved login credentials and files or to execute commands on the computer.

Source: BleepingComputer

How do you protect yourself?

Proper security measures must be in place to defend against Parallax RAT and similar threats. Having proper up-to-date endpoint security provides a cross-generational blend of threat defense techniques to protect systems from malware.

CVE-2020-3764

Adobe has released an update for Adobe Media Encoder. This update resolves  a critical out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.  

Source: Adobe

How do you protect yourself?

Updated Adobe Media Encoder to the latest version (14.0.2).

ObliqueRAT

Researchers have uncovered a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that appears to be the handiwork of a threat group specializing in attacks against government and diplomatic targets.

The latest campaign started in January 2020 and is ongoing. The cybercriminals behind the scheme use phishing emails as the primary attack vector, with malicious Microsoft Office documents attached to the fraudulent emails designed to deploy the RAT.

Source: ZDNet

How do you protect yourself?

Proper security measures must be in place to defend against ObliqueRAT and similar threats. Having proper up-to-date endpoint security provides a cross-generational blend of threat defense techniques to protect systems from malware.