Sequretek Advisory - Golang Attack Campaign: GO#WEBFUSCATOR
9/13/2022
A recent malware campaign, named GO#WEBBFUSCATOR, decoys targets in viewing historic James Webb space telescope deep field images that are loaded with a Golang malware.
• The cybersecurity researchers at Securonix Threat Research recently identified a unique sample of a persistent Golang-based attack campaign tracked as GO#WEBBFUSCATOR.
• This new phishing campaign incorporates an interesting strategy by leveraging the deep field image taken from the James Webb telescope and embedded with obfuscated Golang programming language payloads to infect the target system with the malware.