{"id":225303,"date":"2025-11-18T01:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/dragon-breath-uses-roningloader-to-disable-security-tools-and-deploy-gh0st-rat"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:18:03","slug":"dragon-breath-uses-roningloader-to-disable-security-tools-and-deploy-gh0st-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/dragon-breath-uses-roningloader-to-disable-security-tools-and-deploy-gh0st-rat","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Breath Uses RONINGLOADER to Disable Security Tools and Deploy Gh0st RAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dragon-breath-uses-roningloader-to-disable-security-tools-and-deploy-gh0st-rat.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The threat actor known as <strong>Dragon Breath<\/strong> has been observed making use of a multi-stage loader codenamed RONINGLOADER to deliver a modified variant of a remote access trojan called Gh0st RAT.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign, which is primarily aimed at Chinese-speaking users, employs trojanized NSIS installers masquerading as legitimate like Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams, according to Elastic Security Labs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe infection chain employs a multi-stage delivery mechanism that leverages various evasion techniques, with many redundancies aimed at neutralising endpoint security products popular in the Chinese market,\u201d security researchers Jia Yu Chan and Salim Bitam <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elastic.co\/security-labs\/roningloader\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>. \u201cThese include bringing a legitimately signed driver, deploying custom WDAC policies, and tampering with the Microsoft Defender binary through <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/08\/researchers-detail-windows-epm.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PPL<\/a> [Protected Process Light] abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The threat actor known as Dragon Breath has been observed making use of a multi-stage loader codenamed RONINGLOADER to deliver a modified variant of a remote access trojan called Gh0st RAT. The campaign, which is primarily aimed at Chinese-speaking users, employs trojanized NSIS installers masquerading as legitimate like Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225303","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=225303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}