In early April, Trend Micro researchers discovered that a new threat actor group (which they call Void Arachne) was targeting Chinese-speaking users.
Void Arachne’s campaign involves the use of malicious MSI files that contain legitimate software installer files for artificial intelligence (AI) software as well as other popular software. The malicious Winos payloads are bundled alongside nudifiers and deepfake pornography-generating AI software, voice-and-face-swapping AI software, zh-CN (Simplified Chinese) language packs, the simplified Chinese version of Google Chrome, and Chinese-marketed virtual private networks (VPNs), such as LetsVPN and QuickVPN.
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Source: Trend Micro
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