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VidarMalware

Vidar is a forked malware based on Arkei. It seems this stealer is one of the first that is grabbing information on 2FA Software and Tor Browser.From MISP Galaxy

Last reported 2 days ago, by Infosecurity Magazine33 reports

ATT&CK techniques

6 of 86 · each with the sentence it comes from
  1. T1684Social Engineering

    “Booking.com Customers Scammed in Novel Social Engineering Campaign”

    Infosecurity MagazineNews
  2. T1053.005Scheduled Task

    “This process established a scheduled task, deceptively named to appear like a system error to ensure persistence, and beaconed to a remote server.”

    The Hacker NewsNews
  3. T1036Masquerading

    “Inside this image lay a shortcut (.lnk) masquerading as a PDF document.”

    The Hacker NewsNews
  4. T1176.001Browser Extensions

    “…t released in August 2025, CloudSEK demonstrated how artificial intelligence (AI) summarization systems embedded in email clients, browser extensions, and productivity platforms can be weaponized to deliver ransomware via ClickFix.”

    The Hacker NewsNews
  5. T1027Obfuscated Files or Information

    “T1027”

    Seqrite LabsVendor
  6. T1055Process Injection

    “T1055 Process Injection”

    Group-IBVendor

Reports per month

last 12 months

October so far (hatched). Counted by report, not by story.

What the reports say

33 reports · the newest 20, newest first · the exact sentence from each
  1. “In 2023, Secureworks, now part of Sophos, reported how cybercriminals deployed the Vidar infostealer to gain access partner hotels’ Booking.com credentials.”

    Infosecurity MagazineNews
    EU Regulators to Investigate Booking.com Over Scam Risks
  2. “Three new malware loaders have been spotted in the wild: 2CLoader, which delivers Vidar, Remus Stealer, and XWorm RAT, AvisLoader, which is delivered via ClickFix lures and communicates via Fox, an encrypted peer-to-peer (P2P) messaging network, to fetch commands and additional p…”

    The Hacker NewsNews
    ⚡ Weekly Recap: Helpdesk 0-Days, Rogue Certs, ShinyHunters Arrest, AI-Fooling Malware and More
  3. “Families like Lumma, RedLine, Vidar and Raccoon infect millions of machines a year, mostly personal devices, and harvest every saved password, every active browser session and every autofill record.”

    Sekoia.ioVendor
    Introducing Sekoia Digital Risk: Track Identity-Led Breaches
  4. “More than 3,000 actively compromised websites have been identified as hosting fake pages, per CTM360, with the attack chains leading to Vidar Stealer.”

    The Hacker NewsNews
    ClickFix Smuggles Payloads Through Browser Cache to Bypass Windows Run Limits
  5. “2CLoader: A New Malware Loader Delivering Vidar and Remus”

    Zscaler ThreatLabzVendor
    2CLoader: A New Malware Loader Delivering Vidar and Remus
  6. “Vidar adds VM-based obfuscation: The good ol' Vidar infostealer has added support for a VM-based obfuscation system.”

    Risky Business NewsNews
    Risky Bulletin: Network of 10,000 AI servers masks Chinese malicious activity
  7. “In crack-disguised distribution, Remus, Vidar, LummaC2, and ACRStealer were distributed.”

    AhnLab ASECVendor
    August 2026 Infostealer Trend Report
  8. “Vidar Adds Virtual Machine and Custom Stream Ciphers For String Obfuscation”

    Zscaler ThreatLabzVendor
    Vidar Adds Virtual Machine and Custom Stream Ciphers For String Obfuscation
  9. “Procurement: Buys pre-stolen logins and device footprints from stealer log markets (RedLine, Lumma, Vidar, Raccoon).”

    Group-IBVendor
    The Adversary We Are Fighting Is Now a Full-Force Industry: Inside cybercrime’s new economy
  10. “By checking the browser User-Agent, the TDS redirects Windows visitors to chains distributing LummaC2, Stealc, or Vidar, while sending macOS visitors to MacSync          ClickFix infection funnels.”

    Seqrite LabsVendor
    MacSync: The Evasive macOS Stealer Exploiting ClickFix Lures
  11. “El comunicado también menciona algunos de los malwares identificados en la campaña, como Vidar, Lumma (LummaC2), StealC, RedLine y Acreed, que atacan sistemas Windows, además de Atomic Stealer (AMOS), encontrado en un pequeño número de equipos M…”

    ESET WeLiveSecurity (ES)Vendor
    Infostealer secuestra sesiones de Claude y consume créditos sin autorización
  12. “In total, it claimed that hackers harvested 1.7 billion credentials via infostealer malware between January and June 2026, with Vidar, StealC and Lumma the top three most prolific infostealer variants.”

    Infosecurity MagazineNews
    Infostealers Harvest 1.7 Billion Credentials in Six Months
  13. “In July, the Remus, LummaC2, ACRStealer, and Vidar infostealers were distributed by disguising them as cracks and illegal software.”

    AhnLab ASECVendor
    July 2026 Infostealer Trend Report
  14. “Infostealer credential pipeline: The most pervasive but least targeted threat comes from mass infostealer campaigns, dominated by the Vidar and Lumma malware families.”

    Group-IBVendor
    The GHOST STADIUM Score: Billions At Stake At The World’s Largest Football Tournament
  15. “…eds of public repositories.In addition to discussing the Anthropic leak, this blog post also covers a “Claude Code leak” lure delivering Vidar and Ghostsocks malware that was discovered and analyzed by the Zscaler ThreatLabz team.”

    Zscaler ThreatLabzVendor
    Anthropic Claude Code Leak
  16. “We have observed SectopRAT, Rhadamanthys, Vidar, Lumma, and NetSupport as final payloads.”

    Elastic Security LabsVendor
    GHOSTPULSE haunts victims using defense evasion bag o' tricks
  17. “This kind of verification has been incorporated in many other stealers including Arkei, Vidar, and Oski.”

    Elastic Security LabsVendor
    Elastic Security Labs discovers the LOBSHOT malware
  18. “Group-IB researchers found that malware bundles often contained one of two highly popular stealers, RedLine Stealer and Vidar.”

    Group-IBVendor
    Package deal: Malware bundles causing disruption and damage across EMEA
  19. “… discovered that in early 2020, before distributing the Raccoon stealer, the attackers had distributed samples of another stealer called Vidar.”

    Group-IBVendor
    The footprints of Raccoon
  20. “The malware samples distributed during this campaign were samples of the Vidar password stealer, designed to intercept passwords from user browsers and various applications.”

    Group-IBVendor
    Massive malicious campaign by FakeSecurity JS-sniffer

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