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Skuld: The Infostealer that Speaks Golang

www.trellix.com New Golang-based Skuld Malware Stealing Discord and Browser Data from Windows PCs

Researchers uncover Skuld, a potent Golang-based information stealer that targets Discord, web browsers, and sensitive files on Windows systems.

New Golang-based Skuld Malware Stealing Discord and Browser Data from Windows PCs

This new malware strain, written in Go, has been seen compromising systems across Europe, Southeast Asia, an the U.S. It's stealing sensitive information from Discord, web browsers, etc.

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  • How do you get infected? Running an exe from the looks of it?

    • Yup, it's a compiled binary that is executed on the victim user's system.

      I edited the post to point to the actual report published by Trellis here. It's a malware analysis report so it doesn't go in to the methodology of the initial delivery but there is a little section at the beginning detailing some steps the malware developers took trying to trick users into thinking the "app" was buggy instead of malicious.