On Tuesday, June 18th, 2024, Rapid7 initiated an investigation into suspicious activity in a customer environment. Their investigation identified that the suspicious behavior was emanating from the installation of Notezilla, a program that allows for the creation of sticky notes on a Windows desktop.
Installers for Notezilla, along with tools called RecentX and Copywhiz, are distributed by the India-based company Conceptworld at the official domain conceptworld[.]com. After analyzing the installation packages for all three programs, Rapid7 discovered that the installers had been trojanized to execute information-stealing malware that has the capability to download and execute additional payloads.
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Source: Rapid7
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