X-Industry

A "large and resilient infrastructure" comprising over 250 domains is being used to distribute information-stealing malware such as Raccoon and Vidar since early 2020.  The infection chain uses about a hundred of fake cracked software catalogue websites that redirect to several links before downloading the payload hosted on file share platforms, such as GitHub, cybersecurity researchers reported.

See:  https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/raccoon-stealer-returns

The investigators assessed the do

According to cyber security professionals, ZIP and RAR files have overtaken Office documents as the file most used by cyber criminals to deliver malware, according to an analysis of real-world cyberattacks and data collected from millions of PCs.  The research, based on customer data found in the period between July and September 2022, 42% of attempts at delivering malware attacks used archive file formats, including ZIP and RAR.

That means cyberattacks attempting to exploit ZIP and RAR formats