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.