ViperSoftX Uses Deep Learning-based Tesseract to Exfiltrate Information

AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) has recently discovered ViperSoftX attackers using Tesseract to exfiltrate users’ image files. ViperSoftX is a malware strain responsible for residing on infected systems and executing the attackers’ commands or stealing cryptocurrency-related information.

The malware newly discovered this time utilizes the open-source OCR engine Tesseract. Tesseract extracts texts from images using deep learning techniques. The malware used in the attack reads images stored on the infected systems and extracts strings using the Tesseract tool. If the …

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