New ChaChi Trojan Targeting U.S. Schools

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BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence revealed Wednesday that a new ChaChi Trojan is being used as a critical component in executing ransomware operations against government organizations and U.S. schools, says ZDNet. 

The original version of the Remote Access Trojan (RAT), identified in the first half of 2020, was linked to cyberattacks against French local governments, as listed in the Compromise Indicators (IoC) report from CERT France. The FBI has previously warned of a considerate rise in PYSA attacks on schools, both in the United Kingdom and the United States. 

The new ChaChi has evolved from the earlier variant, that had drawbacks such as poor obfuscation and low-level capabilities. The new malware type is capable of performing traditional RAT actions such as data exfiltration, backdoor creation, and credential dumping from the Wi…

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