New MetaStealer malvertising campaigns

MetaStealer is a popular piece of malware that came out in 2022, levering previous code base from RedLine. Stealers have become a very hot commodity in the criminal space, so much so that there is competition between various groups.

Threat actors have primarily used malspam as an infection vector to drop MetaStealer as well as cracked software via stolen YouTube accounts, but it was at least once previously seen in a malvertising campaign.

In the past week, we observed …

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