Huh, I wonder if this signals the migration of AI dis-employed software talent into lives of crime?
Or maybe it's just the same old same old software talent using ChatGPT to spice up their marketing copy. -- rec -- On Tue, Oct 21, 2025, 9:11 AM glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/j/how-vidar-stealer-2-upgrades-infostealer-capabilities.html > > Key Takeaways: > > > > Vidar 2.0’s release coincides with a decline in Lumma Stealer > activity, resulting in a spike in threat actor adoption and heightened > campaign activity. > > The new version is completely rewritten in C, introducing > multithreaded architecture for faster, more efficient data exfiltration and > improved evasion capabilities. > > Enhanced credential extraction methods allowed Vidar 2.0 to bypass > advanced browser security features, such as Chrome’s AppBound encryption, > through direct memory injection. > > Vidar 2.0 systematically targets a broad scope of data, including > credentials from browsers, cloud services, cryptocurrency wallets, gaming > platforms, and various communication apps such as Discord and Telegram. > > Trend Vision One™ detects and blocks the specific IoCs referenced in > this article, while providing customers with access to hunting queries, > actionable threat insights, and intelligence reports related to Vidar > Stealer. > > -- > ¡sıɹƎ ןıɐH ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ > ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα > σώσω. > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >
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