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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday October 26 2019, @09:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the washes-your-data-before-reselling-it dept.

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Hackers are now selling 'Raccoon' data-stealing malware as a $200 monthly service

A new kind of trojan malware is fast gaining currency among cybercriminals for its capability to steal sensitive information, such as credit card data, cryptocurrency wallets, and email credentials.

Dubbed Raccoon Stealer, the malware first emerged in April 2019 and has since infected hundreds of thousands of Windows devices around the world, Boston-based endpoint security solutions provider Cybereason said.

"Its popularity, even with a limited feature set, signals the continuation of a growing trend of the commoditization of malware as they follow a MaaS (Malware-as-a-Service) model and evolve their efforts," the researchers stated.

Costing $200 per month to use, Raccoon is suspected to be of Russian origin and has been found to be aggressively marketed in underground forums, offering prompt 24×7 customer support to community questions and comments on Telegram under the handle "glad0ff."

This "gladoff" actor has been linked previously to a variety of malware like the Decrux and Acrux cryptominers, the Mimosa RAT and the ProtonBot loader, Cybereason said.


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @10:29PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @10:29PM (#912206)

    I am waiting for the elephant in the room to take a dump.

    Someone starts sending out bogus "updates", which bricks DRM licenses.

    Hold the business community at access point under threat that if they don't pay up, their machine may be in the pool to be served an "update" next.

    This observation is not new. It's been known ever since executing arbitrary code on other people's machines became accepted as a matter of routine.

    It's going to be abused. I felt the need to say it again.

    I got laid off for holding to this paradigm...stop mixing code and data. And don't allow others to run arbitrary code on your machine unless they are willing to assume responsibility for what it does!

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  • (Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @10:58PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @10:58PM (#912218)

    > I got laid off for holding to this paradigm...stop mixing code and data.

    You got laid off because you're too old to code.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:48PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 26 2019, @11:48PM (#912228)

      Funny...they used similar language in the managers office.

      I was trained it wasn't wise to sign contracts without understanding them, don't dive into waters I don't know what's beneath the surface, don't pick up whatever you see, etc.

      I was not raised in a safe place where nothing would hurt me. I was trained to recognize and avoid bad situations. There are many things that will do me in. Most of them are related to my being ignorant of my surroundings. A few of them are booby traps others set for me.

      I thought trying to keep the businessman out of the booby trap would be rewarded.

      Bad call.

      I am too old to accept this faith based system, where one has to trust someone else won't pull fast ones when given the chance .

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @12:00AM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @12:00AM (#912233)

        Dig yourself deeper. You're too old for any workplace.

        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @12:47AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @12:47AM (#912240)

          I now get Medicare and social security.

          I did not get a generous retirement plan.

          The Government paid top dollar for the leadership skills to silence voices posing technical questions to those not trained in those skills.

          Do not tell the man wearing the suit and tie that it is not wise to run the vacuum cleaner near a can of gasoline. He is so high up the gasoline won't do to him what it would do to me if I did such a thing.

          Now, I sit back and watch the train wreck I tried to stop.

          Many of us have tried. Others, seems most of them on this site, are still trying.

          Who cares if the stuff doesn't work as long as the high ups get paid? It's a lot cheaper to have the customer accept another disclaimer clause than it is to fix it.

          I am so tired of this "minimal viable product" crap that looks barely good enough to make a sale. Stuff that is junk before its even off the shelf. Everything throwaway. And we wonder where we are gonna put all the junk we made, after we've dirtied up our environment to make it in the first place.

        • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @01:54AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 27 2019, @01:54AM (#912257)

          Oh, incidentally, the booby trap has not been sprung yet, even though a few oversights during it's construction have revealed just how destructive it can be.

          Yet, we continue to build it.

          When we complete it, it's fallout will be in Biblical proportions to the amount of cascade failure.

          It's like designing a disease for which there is no cure.