Operation Silk Lure Weaponizing Windows Scheduled Tasks to Drop ValleyRAT

Over the past month, a targeted campaign dubbed Operation Silk Lure has surfaced, exploiting the Windows Task Scheduler to deploy a novel variant of ValleyRAT. Emerging in mid-2025, the operation hinges on spear-phishing emails that carry malicious LNK attachments masquerading as candidate resumes. When victims open these attachments, a hidden PowerShell command initiates the download […]

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