{"id":156473,"date":"2023-01-28T03:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T09:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/experts-uncover-the-identity-of-mastermind-behind-golden-chickens-malware-service"},"modified":"2023-01-28T03:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T09:23:08","slug":"experts-uncover-the-identity-of-mastermind-behind-golden-chickens-malware-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/experts-uncover-the-identity-of-mastermind-behind-golden-chickens-malware-service","title":{"rendered":"Experts Uncover the Identity of Mastermind Behind Golden Chickens Malware Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/experts-uncover-the-identity-of-mastermind-behind-golden-chickens-malware-service.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered the real-world identity of the threat actor behind <strong>Golden Chickens <\/strong>malware-as-a-service, who goes by the online persona \u201cbadbullzvenom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ESentire\u2019s Threat Response Unit (TRU), in an exhaustive report published following a 16-month-long investigation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esentire.com\/web-native-pages\/unmasking-venom-spider\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> it \u201cfound multiple mentions of the badbullzvenom account being shared between two people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second threat actor, known as Frapstar, is said to identify themselves as \u201cChuck from Montreal,\u201d enabling the cybersecurity firm to piece together the criminal actor\u2019s digital footprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered the real-world identity of the threat actor behind Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service, who goes by the online persona \u201cbadbullzvenom.\u201d ESentire\u2019s Threat Response Unit (TRU), in an exhaustive report published following a 16-month-long investigation, said it \u201cfound multiple mentions of the badbullzvenom account being shared between two people.\u201d The second threat actor, known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}