PlugX Trojan Disguised as Legitimate Windows Debugger Tool in Latest Attacks
27-Feb-23
The PlugX remote access trojan has been seen posing as the open source Windows debugger programme x64dbg in an effort to sneak past security measures and take over a target system.
In a report published last week, Trend Micro researchers Buddy Tancio, Jed Valderama, and Catherine Loveria stated that the file in question is a legal open-source debugger tool for Windows that is typically used to look at kernel-mode and user-mode code, crash dumps, or CPU registers.
