Hackers Hijack HWMonitor to Sideload Malicious DLL
Hackers are once again exploiting user trust in legitimate software, this time abusing the popular CPUID HWMonitor utility to deliver a stealthy remote acces...
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TeamPCP Used Mini Shai-Hulud Worm to Poison Over 400 npm and PyPI Packages
Research reveals that TeamPCP hijacked OIDC tokens to poison hundreds of TanStack, Mistral AI, and UiPath packages with the self-propagating Mini Shai-Hulud ...
Infostealer Malware Fuels Corporate Breaches From Personal Devices
Infostealer malware is no longer just a consumer nuisance it has become a direct bridge between personal device infections and full-scale enterprise breaches...
Android Adds Intrusion Logging for Sophisticated Spyware Forensics
Google on Tuesday unveiled a new opt-in Android feature called Intrusion Logging for storing forensic logs to better analyze sophisticated spyware attacks. I...
Google and Amnesty International teamed up to make it harder for spyware vendors to hide
Intrusion Logging marks the first feature from a major device vendor to aid with forensic detection of sophisticated threats, Amnesty International said. The...
Undermining the trust boundary: Investigating a stealthy intrusion through third-party compromise
Microsoft Incident Response investigated an attack operated through legitimate and trusted administrative mechanisms to blend seamlessly into routine operati...
Fake Claude Code takes the IElevator to your browser secrets
Developers looking for Anthropic’s increasingly popular Claude Code tool are now being lured into downloading malware. According to researchers at Ontinue, a...
Shai Hulud attack ships signed malicious TanStack, Mistral npm packages
A large-scale software supply-chain attack involving the "Shai-Hulud" malware has compromised hundreds of packages across open-source software ecosystems. [.
Hackers Hijack Microsoft Teams Accounts to Spread ModeloRAT Malware
Hackers are now abusing hijacked Microsoft Teams accounts and fake IT helpdesk chats to push a new, undocumented version of the Python‑based ModeloRAT into c...
Malicious Hugging Face Repository Typosquats OpenAI
HiddenLayer reveals infostealer malware in a Hugging Face repository
Microsoft Warns: MistralAI PyPI Package Compromised with Malware
Mistral’s official Python client on PyPI has been pulled into the ongoing wave of AI supply‑chain attacks, with Microsoft warning that version 2.4.
TrickMo Android Malware Targets Banking, Wallet, and Authenticator Apps
TrickMo, the Android banking malware, has resurfaced with a significantly redesigned architecture, targeting banking, fintech, wallet, and authenticator appl...
Official CheckMarx Jenkins package compromised with infostealer
Checkmarx warned over the weekend that a rogue version of its Jenkins Application Security Testing (AST) plugin had been published on the Jenkins Marketplace...
New PamDOORa Linux backdoor sold on cybercrime forum
PamDOORa functions as a post-exploitation toolkit, enabling attackers to gain persistent access to Linux systems (x86_64) through a "magic password" and a sp...
⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Rootkit, macOS Crypto Stealer, WebSocket Skimmers and More
Rough Monday. Somebody poisoned a trusted download again, somebody else turned cloud servers into public housing, and a few crews are still getting into boxe...
Malicious Hugging Face model masquerading as OpenAI release hits 244K downloads
A malicious Hugging Face repository posing as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows systems and logged 244,000 downloads before being re...
AI security is repeating endpoint security’s biggest mistake
The security industry is experiencing déjà vu, and most teams haven’t recognized it yet. If you were in the trenches during the early 2000s, you remember the...
TrickMo Android banker adopts TON blockchain for covert comms
A new variant of the TrickMo Android banking malware, delivered in campaigns targeting users across Europe, introduces new commands and uses The Open Network...
ODINI Malware Uses CPU Magnetic Signals to Exfiltrate Data from Air-Gapped Systems
Air-gapped systems and Faraday cages have long represented the gold standard for protecting critical infrastructure and sensitive military networks. However,...
Hackers Trick DigiCert Into Issuing Certificates Used to Sign Malware
DigiCert revokes 60 code signing certificates after hackers used a malicious support chat attachment to sign the Zhong Stealer malware.