VSDC Video Editor
VSDC download portal compromised
The official VSDC Video Editor website was compromised multiple times, and attackers replaced legitimate download links with trojanized installers carrying banking malware. The public source trail has thinned over time, but the pattern remains clear as a trusted media tool became a rotating delivery point.
- Date
- 2018-11-01 to 2019-07-31
- Category
- Commercial
- Target Surface
- Distribution
- Insertion Phase
- distribution
- Impact
- Banking trojan
- Cause
- Website compromise
What Was Affected
Package
VSDC Video Editor
LanguageC++
ComponentApplication
Artifact typebinary archive
Domain typeproject download host
Domain
videosoftdev.com
Incident Context
- Motive
- Financial gain
- Attribution
- Cybercriminal
- Transitive
- No
- User Impact
- 565000
- Observed Duration
- 272 days
Evidence
Compromised Artifacts
- Trojanized VSDC Video Editor installers downloaded from videosoftdev.com during 2018-2019.
Source Data
Source record: proprietary/vdsc/meta.yaml