{"id":4023,"date":"2025-05-17T07:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/fileless-remcos-rat-delivered-via-lnk-html\/"},"modified":"2025-05-17T07:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T07:02:24","slug":"fileless-remcos-rat-delivered-via-lnk-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/17\/fileless-remcos-rat-delivered-via-lnk-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Fileless Remcos RAT Delivered via LNK Files and MSHTA in PowerShell-Based Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Fileless Remcos RAT Delivered via LNK Files and MSHTA in PowerShell-Based Attacks<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 shed light on a new malware campaign that makes use of a PowerShell-based shellcode loader to deploy a remote access trojan called Remcos RAT.<br \/>\n&#8220;Threat actors delivered malicious LNK files embedded within ZIP archives, often disguised as Office documents,&#8221; Qualys security researcher Akshay Thorve said in a technical report. &#8220;The attack chain leverages mshta.exe for<\/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\/05\/fileless-remcos-rat-delivered-via-lnk.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fileless Remcos RAT Delivered via LNK Files and MSHTA in PowerShell-Based Attacks Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new malware campaign that makes use of a PowerShell-based shellcode loader to deploy a remote access trojan called Remcos RAT. &#8220;Threat actors delivered malicious LNK files embedded within ZIP archives, often disguised as Office documents,&#8221; Qualys [&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-4023","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\/4023"}],"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=4023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}