Threat Spotlight: Cyber Criminal Adoption of IPFS for Phishing, Malware Campaigns
released on 2022-11-09 @ 05:06:36 PM
The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is an emerging Web3 technology that is currently seeing widespread abuse by threat actors. IPFS is often used for legitimate purposes, which makes it more difficult for security teams to differentiate between benign and malicious IPFS activity in their networks. Multiple malware families are currently being hosted within IPFS and retrieved during the initial stages of malware attacks.