Alleged leader of Kimwolf, a sweeping botnet for cybercriminals, arrested in Canada
Jacob Butler, a 23-year-old from Ottawa, awaits extradition to the United States and faces up to 10 years in prison. The post Alleged leader of Kimwolf, a sw...
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Alleged Kimwolf Botmaster ‘Dort’ Arrested, Charged in U.S. and Canada
Canadian authorities on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man on suspicion of building and operating Kimwolf, a fast spreading Internet-of-Things botne...
CISA chief frets about open-source vulnerabilities, delayed security improvements
Acting director Nick Andersen’s comments came as a wave of malware attacks hit tech that’s publicly available for collaboration. The post CISA chief frets ab...
Microsoft’s Retired IE Tool MSHTA Now Being Used in Fileless Malware Attacks
Bitdefender researchers reveal how cyberattackers are abusing the built-in Windows MSHTA utility to silently deploy loaders and infostealers.
BadIIS Malware Hijacks IIS Servers to Redirect Users to Illicit Sites
A new variant of the BadIIS malware that hijacks Microsoft IIS web servers to redirect users to illicit websites, highlighting an evolving malware-as-a-servi...
How a Webmail Log File Became a Root-Level Backdoor
A forensic breakdown of how an attacker turned CyberPanel's SnappyMail logging into a persistent webshell that survived every WordPress cleanup attempt. The ...
Mini Shai Hulud: Compromised @antv npm packages enable CI/CD credential theft
Compromised @antv npm packages deploy the Mini Shai-Hulud payload to steal CI/CD secrets from Linux-based automation environments. The malware executes durin...
Mini Shai-Hulud Hits Hundreds of npm Packages in AntV Ecosystem
Mini Shai-Hulud worm hits Alibaba AntV ecosystem in largest npm supply chain wave to date
Microsoft disrupts Fox Tempest malware-signing service
Fox Tempest operated a platform called signspace[.]cloud, which allowed threat actors to obtain short-lived Microsoft-issued certificates via Artifact Signing.
Misconfigured, Enrolled and Dormant: Anatomy of a P2Pinfect Kubernetes Compromise
FortiGuard Labs analyzed several P2PInfect compromises in GKE clusters, showing how exposed Redis instances can enable persistent botnet enrollment, dormancy...
Tracking TamperedChef Clusters via Certificate and Code Reuse
Unit 42 analyzes TamperedChef malware clusters that use trojanized productivity apps and malvertising to deliver stealthy payloads to targets. The post Track...
DevilNFC Malware Traps Android Users in NFC Relay Attacks
A newly identified Android malware family named DevilNFC is raising concern among cybersecurity researchers for its advanced use of kiosk mode to trap victim...
Single-Letter Go Module Typosquat Drops DNS-Based Backdoor
A newly uncovered software supply chain attack targeting Go developers demonstrates how a single-character typo can silently introduce a persistent backdoor....
Ukraine says Russia is deploying AI-powered malware on the battlefield
A new report from Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council says Russia’s use of AI across cyber operations expanded dramatically over the past year, r...
AntV data visualization tool the latest to be hit by ongoing npm supply chain attacks
The world’s largest open-source registry, node package manager (npm), has been hit by another fast-moving malware attack, this time targeting the widely-used...
Mini Shai-Hulud returns, compromising hundreds of npm packages
Another malware wave is washing through open-source software repos, stealing publishing tokens, installing OS‑level backdoors and persisting in developer too...
Internet Explorer may be dead, but its ghost still runs malware
Microsoft’s aging “mshta.exe” utility, a leftover component from Internet Explorer, is still being actively abused in modern malware campaigns years after th...
VoidStealer Malware Targets Chrome Data Despite Built-In Browser Protections
A newly discovered infostealer called VoidStealer is raising concerns after researchers revealed it can bypass Google Chrome’s App-Bound Encryption (ABE), a ...
UAC-0184 Uses Bitsadmin and HTA Files to Deliver Gated Malware
UAC-0184 uses a multi‑stage malware chain that abuses bitsadmin and HTA loaders to reach a heavily obfuscated payload bundle, ultimately hiding behind signed...
macOS Malware Abuses Fake Google Update for Persistence
A newly observed variant of the SHub macOS infostealer, dubbed “Reaper,” is expanding its capabilities with stealthier delivery, enhanced data theft, and a p...