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Video editing software CapCut users are being targeted by attackers to push different strains of malware. For those that are not aware of that CapCut is, it is a video editor and maker for TikTok and is the official one at that (ByteDance also owns TikTok). With over 500 million downloads from Google Play alone it is clearly a very popular app for people to grab to feed their TikTok streams with. It was only a matter of time before someone decided to go after the poplar app and with the growing number of bans and lock outs for ByteDance and their services, offering what appears to be an alternative way to get this software makes sense (from an attacker perspective).

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It was only a matter of time before something like this happened. As services like ChatGPT, Midjourney, Bard and other “AI” platform we viral, threat actors were bound to start trying to get in on the action. ChatGPT and Midjourney were easy targets for this as neither has a standalone app yet. To use them you have to get to their online presence; ChatGPT’s website or Midjourney’s Discord. This gap allowed the threat group known as BatLoader to start impersonating both of them via cleverly crafted Google search ads.

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