Bad actors are using political themes to trick victims into downloading malware, Cisco Talos researchers say. The themes are not aimed at disinformation, but rather at lures aimed at luring victims into clicking or downloading various types of malware, researchers said. They found a range of applications some designed to lure victims into paying ransom demands, and others used to gain backdoor access to systems and operate within organizational networks. Ransomware, malware that unpacks itself in memory, and crypters (commonly used to attempt to evade antivirus detection by encrypting or obfuscating malicious code associated with malware binaries) were also found.
Source: https://threatpost.com/trump-putin-and-politics-name-dropped-to-peddle-malware/149884/