TAU Threat Analysis: NetWire Variant Leveraging AutoIt Scripts and Windows Shortcut Links

NetWire, an information stealing RAT that dates back multiple years, has been witnessed in the wild recently using a tactic of combining Windows shortcut link files and AutoIt scripts. These scripts pose as BitTorrent files, a protocol used for direct peer-to-peer file transfers, to entrench and execute from a victimized system. This method of entrenchment […]

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