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Attackers abuse red teaming tool to deploy Brute Ratel

Cyber crime and security vector concept showing a laptop, credit card and open padlock.

Hackers are using the MacroPack framework to generate weaponized Microsoft Office documents. These documents, in turn, deploy different malware to their targets, including Blue Ratel, PhantomCore, and Havoc.

This is according to a new report from cybersecurity researchers Cisco Talos. In a detailed analysis published earlier this week, the researchers said they spotted what appear to be multiple threat actor groups abusing MacroPack in their malicious campaigns.

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