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- T1684Social Engineering
“Booking.com Customers Scammed in Novel Social Engineering Campaign”
- 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.”
- T1036Masquerading
“Inside this image lay a shortcut (.lnk) masquerading as a PDF document.”
- 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.”
- T1027Obfuscated Files or Information
“T1027”
- T1055Process Injection
“T1055 Process Injection”
Reports per month
last 12 monthsOctober 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-
EU Regulators to Investigate Booking.com Over Scam Risks“In 2023, Secureworks, now part of Sophos, reported how cybercriminals deployed the Vidar infostealer to gain access partner hotels’ Booking.com credentials.”
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Helpdesk 0-Days, Rogue Certs, ShinyHunters Arrest, AI-Fooling Malware and More“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…”
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Introducing Sekoia Digital Risk: Track Identity-Led Breaches“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.”
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ClickFix Smuggles Payloads Through Browser Cache to Bypass Windows Run Limits“More than 3,000 actively compromised websites have been identified as hosting fake pages, per CTM360, with the attack chains leading to Vidar Stealer.”
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2CLoader: A New Malware Loader Delivering Vidar and Remus“2CLoader: A New Malware Loader Delivering Vidar and Remus”
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Risky Bulletin: Network of 10,000 AI servers masks Chinese malicious activity“Vidar adds VM-based obfuscation: The good ol' Vidar infostealer has added support for a VM-based obfuscation system.”
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August 2026 Infostealer Trend Report“In crack-disguised distribution, Remus, Vidar, LummaC2, and ACRStealer were distributed.”
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Vidar Adds Virtual Machine and Custom Stream Ciphers For String Obfuscation“Vidar Adds Virtual Machine and Custom Stream Ciphers For String Obfuscation”
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The Adversary We Are Fighting Is Now a Full-Force Industry: Inside cybercrime’s new economy“Procurement: Buys pre-stolen logins and device footprints from stealer log markets (RedLine, Lumma, Vidar, Raccoon).”
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MacSync: The Evasive macOS Stealer Exploiting ClickFix Lures“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.”
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Infostealer secuestra sesiones de Claude y consume créditos sin autorización“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…”
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Infostealers Harvest 1.7 Billion Credentials in Six Months“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.”
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July 2026 Infostealer Trend Report“In July, the Remus, LummaC2, ACRStealer, and Vidar infostealers were distributed by disguising them as cracks and illegal software.”
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The GHOST STADIUM Score: Billions At Stake At The World’s Largest Football Tournament“Infostealer credential pipeline: The most pervasive but least targeted threat comes from mass infostealer campaigns, dominated by the Vidar and Lumma malware families.”
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Anthropic Claude Code Leak“…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.”
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GHOSTPULSE haunts victims using defense evasion bag o' tricks“We have observed SectopRAT, Rhadamanthys, Vidar, Lumma, and NetSupport as final payloads.”
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Elastic Security Labs discovers the LOBSHOT malware“This kind of verification has been incorporated in many other stealers including Arkei, Vidar, and Oski.”
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Package deal: Malware bundles causing disruption and damage across EMEA“Group-IB researchers found that malware bundles often contained one of two highly popular stealers, RedLine Stealer and Vidar.”
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The footprints of Raccoon“… discovered that in early 2020, before distributing the Raccoon stealer, the attackers had distributed samples of another stealer called Vidar.”
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Massive malicious campaign by FakeSecurity JS-sniffer“The malware samples distributed during this campaign were samples of the Vidar password stealer, designed to intercept passwords from user browsers and various applications.”
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