🎙️SECURITY.COM The Podcast: The Parasite in the Machine: Unmasking the Speagle Infostealer
Innocuous error reports, hypersonic targets, and a mystery with no fingerprints
In this episode of SECURITY.COM The Podcast, Dan Mellinger is joined by Dick O’Brien, leading threat analyst and familiar voice to our podcast listeners, to break down one of the most unusual malware discoveries in recent years.
Here are the highlights
Dan and Dick uncover:
- How Speagle abuses trusted Cobra DocGuard functionality.
- What its missile-focused keyword list reveals.
- How stolen data is disguised as legitimate error reports.
- Why the malware’s self-cleaning behavior stands out.
- What researchers still don’t know about the actor(s) behind it.
For more insights on Speagle, check our recent blog from the Threat Hunter Team: New Malware Targets Users of Cobra DocGuard Software.
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