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Speagle Malware Hijacks Cobra DocGuard to Exfiltrate Data via Compromised Legitimate Servers

20 Mar 2026 Peter Bassill

Symantec and Carbon Black researchers have uncovered Speagle, a novel parasitic malware that abuses the Cobra DocGuard document security platform to harvest sensitive data and exfiltrate it through the software's own compromised server infrastructure — masking malicious traffic as legitimate client-server communications. The campaign, tracked as Runningcrab, appears to specifically target organisations with Cobra DocGuard installed.