More than 3,000 fraudulent GitHub accounts have been leveraged by the Stargazer Goblin threat operation's Stargazers Ghost Network to facilitate the distribution of various malicious payloads, particularly information-stealing malware such as Atlantida Stealer, Lumma Stealer, RedLine, Rhadamanthys, and RisePro.
Attacks exploiting the already patched Windows Defender SmartScreen flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-21412, continue to be launched by threat actors looking to stealthily distribute malware with credential theft, backdoor access, activity monitoring, and remote key logging capabilities.
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