A new phishing campaign was recently captured by our FortiGuard Labs that spreads a new Agent Tesla variant targeting Spanish-speaking people.
Security researchers have detected Agent Tesla campaigns from time to time for years. Agent Tesla is a well-known .Net-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) designed to stealthily infiltrate victim’s computers and steal their sensitive information, such as their computer’s hardware information, login user information, keystrokes, email contacts, web browser cookies files, system clipboard data, screenshots etc.
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Source: Fortinet
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