New Russian Campaign Uses Fake Webex and Zoom Installers to Deploy Starland RAT
Russian-speaking UAT-11795 spreads trojanized Zoom, Webex, and MobaXterm installers to deliver Starland RAT and the WLDR memory-only implant. Cisco Talos researchers published a detailed technical report on July 16 disclosing UAT-11795, a financially motivated, Russian-speaking threat actor that has been running a malware campaign against users in the United States and Europe since at least […]
Cisco Talos researchers published a detailed technical report on July 16 disclosing UAT-11795, a financially motivated, Russian-speaking threat actor that has been running a malware campaign against users in the United States and Europe since at least June 2025. The operation distributes trojanized installers for software that IT professionals and developers actually use: MobaXterm, Cisco Webex, Zoom, DBeaver, and even the gaming platform FACEIT.
“Cisco Talos is disclosing UAT-11795, a sophisticated, Russian-speaking, financially motivated adversary that has been conducting a malicious campaign targeting users in the U.S. and Europe since at least June 2025.” reads the report published by Talos.
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