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Researchers from KrakenLabs have exposed the operations chain of malware threat actor EncryptHub after the latter suffered security lapses. EncryptHub had compromised over 600 entities, using a multi-stage process involving trojanized applications and sophisticated scripts to extract sensitive victim data. KrakenLabs also found that EncryptHub uses a third-party “pay-per-install” broker to spread its malware and is developing a control interface, called EncryptRAT, to manage attacks more efficiently.