Cybersecurity researchers have once again exposed an infamous Astaroth infostealer malware having been discovered firstly out of the wild in 2018, it has been confirmed to be currently wreaking havoc within the South American nation of Brazil for now using a stiffed of anti-analysis and anti-sandbox checks to evade detection by cybersecurity and research experts.

Another cyber-security researcher Talos says that when a user is infected by Astaroth, the malware connects to a YouTube channel, from where it extracts the channel description field containing encrypted and base64-encoded text with the URLs emanating from its control and command server. Once the text is decoded, Astaroth connects to these URLs to transmit new instructions and to transfer hacked data for storage.
What Is The Astaroth Infostealer Malware?


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