{"id":590,"date":"2025-05-27T08:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/?p=590"},"modified":"2025-05-28T08:06:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T06:06:29","slug":"cybercriminals-clone-antivirus-site-to-spread-venom-rat-and-steal-crypto-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/cybercriminals-clone-antivirus-site-to-spread-venom-rat-and-steal-crypto-wallets\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybercriminals Clone Antivirus Site to Spread Venom RAT and Steal Crypto Wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new malicious campaign that uses a fake website advertising antivirus software from Bitdefender to dupe victims into downloading a remote access trojan called Venom RAT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign indicates a &#8220;clear intent to target individuals for financial gain by compromising their credentials, crypto wallets, and potentially selling access to their systems,&#8221; the DomainTools Intelligence (DTI) team&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dti.domaintools.com\/VenomRAT\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in a new report shared with The Hacker News.<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/cybercriminals-clone-antivirus-site-to-spread-venom-rat-and-steal-crypto-wallets\/\" target=\"_self\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/05\/cybercriminals-clone-antivirus-site-to_4.html\">Cybercriminals Clone Antivirus Site to Spread Venom RAT and Steal Crypto Wallets<\/a><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Cybercriminals Clone Antivirus Site to Spread Venom RAT and Steal Crypto Wallets<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new malicious campaign that uses a fake website advertising antivirus software from Bitdefender to dupe victims into downloading a remote access trojan called Venom RAT. The campaign indicates a &#8220;clear intent to target individuals for financial gain by compromising their credentials, crypto wallets, and potentially&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malware","tag-40"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familiebuckens.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}