Desert Dexter Targets 900 Victims Using Facebook Ads and Telegram Malware Links

The Middle East and North Africa have become the target of a new campaign that delivers a modified version of a known malware called AsyncRAT since September 2024.
« The campaign, which leverages social media to distribute malware, is tied to the region’s current geopolitical climate, » Positive Technologies researchers Klimentiy Galkin and Stanislav Pyzhov said in an analysis published last week.