CypherIT Autoit

The CypherIT Autoit is a genuine application that was created by well-meaning developers. However, cybercriminals have found a way to weaponize this otherwise benign service. They use the CypherIT Autoit application to obfuscate the code of their harmful creations. This is a common technique used by the majority of cyber crooks. Obfuscating a threat makes it far more difficult for anti-virus engines to spot and identify it. Furthermore, heavily obfuscated code is very difficult to reverse engineer, which means that malware researchers will have a very difficult time dissecting and studying the threat in question.

Luckily, cybersecurity tools are updated regularly, and it is likely that the majority of them are capable of spotting whether a string of code has been obfuscated and is, in fact, not as harmless as it may seem at first glance. Security experts keep up with the various tricks and schemes of cybercriminals and try to be one step ahead.

According to recent reports, the CypherIT Autoit application has been utilized in a campaign distributing the AZORult infostealer. The latter is a stealthy threat capable of gathering sensitive information such as payment details and login credentials. If your anti-malware tool displays an alert regarding the CypherIT Autoit tool when you download a file, we would advise you against executing the file as it may contain a threatening payload.