26th May 2017 By Tara Seals
A threat actor from Germany that goes by the handle Vicswors Baghdad appears to be behind the propagation of the Houdini malware on Pastebin sites—as well as actively editing an open source ransomware variant called MoWare H.F.D.
According to Recorded Future analyst Daniel Hatheway, there have been three distinct spike in malicious Visual Basic scripts (VBScript) posted on paste sites, the majority of which are the Houdini worm. Houdini first appeared in 2013 and was updated in 2016; the new spikes occurred last August and October, and in March of this year.
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German Threat Actor Spreads Houdini Worm on Pastebin
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