An unidentified threat actor has been observed employing a “complex and powerful” malware loader with the ultimate objective of deploying cryptocurrency miners on compromised systems and potentially facilitating the theft of Discord tokens.
“The evidence found on victim networks appears to indicate that the goal of the attacker was to install cryptocurrency mining software on victim machines,” researchers from the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom Software, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
