Cyber espionage: Fileless Malware DownEX discovered
Bitdefender Labs experts have discovered a new malware family. The sophisticated and very targeted attack called DownEx is currently still targeting government agencies in Central Asia. Companies operating in these regions can also become victims. The main goal of the attackers is espionage and exfiltration of information. The malicious code of the fileless attack is largely only executed in the main memory and is therefore difficult to detect. By analyzing the Python script and reverse engineering the communication with the command and control (C2C) server, the experts were able to identify four main functions of the…