{"id":1144,"date":"2025-01-05T07:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-05T07:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/playfulghost-delivered-via-phishing-and-html\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T07:04:11","slug":"playfulghost-delivered-via-phishing-and-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/05\/playfulghost-delivered-via-phishing-and-html\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a wide range of information-gathering features like keylogging, screen capture, audio capture, remote shell, and file transfer\/execution.<br \/>\nThe backdoor, according to Google&#8217;s Managed Defense team, shares functional overlaps with a known remote administration tool referred to as Gh0st RAT, which had its source<\/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\/2025\/01\/playfulghost-delivered-via-phishing-and.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a wide range of information-gathering features like keylogging, screen capture, audio capture, remote shell, and file transfer\/execution. The backdoor, according to Google&#8217;s Managed Defense team, shares functional overlaps with a known remote [&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-1144","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\/1144"}],"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=1144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}