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Aug 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cryptocurrency Threat actors have been observed leveraging the deceptive social engineering tactic known as ClickFix to deploy a versatile backdoor codenamed CORNFLAKE.V3. Google-owned Mandiant described …

Jul 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Web Security Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new stealthy backdoor concealed within the “mu-plugins” directory in WordPress sites to grant threat actors persistent access and …

Jul 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Russian aerospace and defense industries have become the target of a cyber espionage campaign that delivers a backdoor called EAGLET to facilitate data …

“Rather than working to compromise one company and being uncertain of the payoff, threat actors can compromise one developer and end up with their malware in hundreds, or even thousands …

Malware analyst discovered a new version of the Atomic macOS info-stealer (also known as ‘AMOS’) that comes with a backdoor, to attackers persistent access to compromised systems. The new component allows …

Fake Zoom meeting invitations used as lure The recent attack campaigns against crypto and Web3 companies started in April and were previously documented by Huntabil.IT and Huntress, who attributed the …

The North Korea-aligned threat actor known as BlueNoroff has been observed targeting an employee in the Web3 sector with deceptive Zoom calls featuring deepfaked company executives to trick them into …

Jun 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage A now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome was exploited as a zero-day by a threat actor known as TaxOff to deploy a backdoor …

Kaspersky detected multiple infections in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Egypt. Using CAPTCHA as a throw-off To add legitimacy to their operation and lower user suspicion, the …

Over 9,000 ASUS routers are compromised by a novel botnet dubbed “AyySSHush” that was also observed targeting SOHO routers from Cisco, D-Link, and Linksys. The campaign was discovered by GreyNoise …