Sophos, maker of anti-malware solutions, has partnered with bit.ly, a utility for shortening, sharing and tracking links, to provide visibility into infected websites through its behavior detection capabilities, search engine partnerships and anti-spam honeypots.
Such a vulnerability stems from impacted devices' usage of an American Megatrends International-generated Platform Key with the "DO NOT TRUST" tag that the vendors should have replaced, according to a report from the Binarly Research Team.
Information exposed by the hacking incident revealed not only all devices infected with Spytech spyware, most of which were Windows PCs, but also their unencrypted activity logs.
Intrusions involved the use of the domain, crowdstrike-office365[.]com, to lure users into downloading a recovery tool purportedly addressing update-related boot loop issues but delivers a malware loader.