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New Malicious Campaign Delivers Vidar Infostealer and Monero Crypto Miner

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New Malicious Campaign Delivers Vidar Infostealer and Monero Crypto Miner

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New Malicious Campaign Delivers Vidar Infostealer and Monero Crypto Miner

Cyber threat actors have launched a campaign distributing Vidar infostealer and XMRig cryptocurrency miner to infected systems. The campaign combines credential and data theft with unauthorized resource hijacking for Monero mining.

Why it matters: Organizations and employees are at risk of credential compromise and performance degradation from both the infostealer and miner; practitioners should monitor for Vidar and XMRig indicators of compromise (IOCs) and review endpoint detection and response (EDR) logs for suspicious process execution.

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