{"id":218111,"date":"2025-07-17T06:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hackers-leverage-microsoft-teams-to-spread-matanbuchus-3-0-malware-to-targeted-firms"},"modified":"2025-07-17T06:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:18:22","slug":"hackers-leverage-microsoft-teams-to-spread-matanbuchus-3-0-malware-to-targeted-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/hackers-leverage-microsoft-teams-to-spread-matanbuchus-3-0-malware-to-targeted-firms","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Leverage Microsoft Teams to Spread Matanbuchus 3.0 Malware to Targeted Firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-leverage-microsoft-teams-to-spread-matanbuchus-3-0-malware-to-targeted-firms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that similar social engineering tactics have been <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/06\/former-black-basta-members-use.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">employed<\/a> by threat actors associated with the Black Basta ransomware operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVictims are carefully targeted and persuaded to execute a script that triggers the download of an archive,\u201d Morphisec CTO Michael Gorelik <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morphisec.com\/blog\/ransomware-threat-matanbuchus-3-0-maas-levels-up\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis archive contains a renamed Notepad++ updater (GUP), a slightly modified configuration XML file, and a malicious side-loaded DLL representing the Matanbuchus loader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matanbuchus 3.0 has been advertised publicly for a monthly price of $10,000 for the HTTPS version and $15,000 for the DNS version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s worth noting that similar social engineering tactics have been employed by threat actors associated with the Black Basta ransomware operation. \u201cVictims are carefully targeted and persuaded to execute a script that triggers the download of an archive,\u201d Morphisec CTO Michael Gorelik said. \u201cThis archive contains a renamed Notepad++ updater (GUP), a slightly modified configuration [\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-218111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218111","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=218111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}