New PowerDrop Malware Discovered Targeting U.S. Aerospace Industry

Researchers announced finding a sample of the new PowerDrop malware in the network of a defense contractor in the U.S. The discovery indicates that threat actors use PowerShell-based malware to attack the U.S. aerospace defense industry. The new PowerDrop malware is a PowerShell script executed by the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service. It works as […]

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