{"id":10407,"date":"2026-02-05T07:03:51","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/deadvax-malware-campaign-deploys-html\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T07:03:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:03:51","slug":"deadvax-malware-campaign-deploys-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/deadvax-malware-campaign-deploys-html\/","title":{"rendered":"DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Threat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of &#8220;disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features&#8221; to bypass traditional detection mechanisms and deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) known as AsyncRAT.<br \/>\n&#8220;The attack leverages IPFS-hosted VHD files, extreme script obfuscation, runtime decryption, and in-memory<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/02\/deadvax-malware-campaign-deploys.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files Threat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of &#8220;disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features&#8221; to bypass traditional detection mechanisms and deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) known as AsyncRAT. &#8220;The attack leverages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-10407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}