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The XCSSET info-stealing malware is back, targeting macOS users and devs

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The XCSSET info-stealing malware is back, targeting macOS users and devs 2025-02-17 at 19:50 By Zeljka Zorz A new, improved variant of the XCSSET macOS malware has been spotted “in limited attacks” by Microsoft’s threat researchers. XCSSET macOS malware XCSSET in information-stealing and backdoor-injecting malware targeting Mac users. It’s usually distributed via infected Xcode projects […]

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New FinalDraft Malware Spotted in Espionage Campaign

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New FinalDraft Malware Spotted in Espionage Campaign 2025-02-17 at 15:49 By Ionut Arghire A newly identified malware family abuses the Outlook mail service for communication, via the Microsoft Graph API. The post New FinalDraft Malware Spotted in Espionage Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source React to

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North Korean hackers spotted using ClickFix tactic to deliver malware

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North Korean hackers spotted using ClickFix tactic to deliver malware 2025-02-13 at 18:34 By Zeljka Zorz North Korean state-sponsored group Kimsuky (aka Emerald Sleet, aka VELVET CHOLLIMA) is attempting to deliver malware to South Korean targets by leveraging the so-called “ClickFix” tactic. A relatively new tactic The ClickFix social engineering tactic has been dubbed thus

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Over 3 million Fortune 500 employee accounts compromised since 2022

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Over 3 million Fortune 500 employee accounts compromised since 2022 2025-02-13 at 07:03 By Help Net Security More than three million employee-linked corporate accounts were compromised between 2022 and 2024 across Fortune 500 companies, according to Enzoic. This surge is fueled by the widespread use of corporate email addresses for personal accounts and the growing

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BTMOB RAT: Newly Discovered Android Malware Spreading via Phishing Sites

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BTMOB RAT: Newly Discovered Android Malware Spreading via Phishing Sites 2025-02-13 at 06:19 By rohansinhacyblecom Key Takeaways Overview On January 31, 2025, Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) identified a sample lnat-tv-pro.apk (13341c5171c34d846f6d0859e8c45d8a898eb332da41ab62bcae7519368d2248) being distributed via a phishing site “hxxps://tvipguncelpro[.]com/” impersonating iNat TV – online streaming platform from Turkey posing a serious threat to unsuspecting

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OpenAI Finds No Evidence of Breach After Hacker Offers to Sell 20 Million Credentials

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OpenAI Finds No Evidence of Breach After Hacker Offers to Sell 20 Million Credentials 2025-02-11 at 13:40 By Eduard Kovacs A hacker recently offered to sell 20 million OpenAI credentials, but the data likely comes from information stealers, not the AI firm’s systems. The post OpenAI Finds No Evidence of Breach After Hacker Offers to

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Attackers compromise IIS servers by leveraging exposed ASP.NET machine keys

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Attackers compromise IIS servers by leveraging exposed ASP.NET machine keys 2025-02-07 at 14:22 By Zeljka Zorz A ViewState code injection attack spotted by Microsoft threat researchers in December 2024 could be easily replicated by other attackers, the company warned. “In the course of investigating, remediating, and building protections against this activity, we observed an insecure

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Crypto-stealing iOS, Android malware found on App Store, Google Play

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Crypto-stealing iOS, Android malware found on App Store, Google Play 2025-02-05 at 13:25 By Zeljka Zorz A number of iOS and Android apps on Apple’s and Google’s official app stores contain a software development kit (SDK) that allows them to exfiltrate cryptowallets’ seed recovery phrases, Kaspersky researchers have found. “The infected apps in Google Play

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22 New Mac Malware Families Seen in 2024

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22 New Mac Malware Families Seen in 2024 2025-02-04 at 19:03 By Eduard Kovacs Nearly two dozen new macOS malware families were observed in 2024, including stealers, backdoors, downloaders and ransomware. The post 22 New Mac Malware Families Seen in 2024 appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Developers Targeted With Malware Disguised as DeepSeek Package

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Developers Targeted With Malware Disguised as DeepSeek Package 2025-02-04 at 14:03 By Eduard Kovacs Python developers looking to integrate DeepSeek into their projects were targeted with malicious packages delivered through PyPI. The post Developers Targeted With Malware Disguised as DeepSeek Package appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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DeepSeek’s popularity exploited to push malicious packages via PyPI

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DeepSeek’s popularity exploited to push malicious packages via PyPI 2025-02-03 at 15:33 By Zeljka Zorz Two malicious packages leveraging the DeepSeek name have been published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) package repository, and in the 30 minutes or so they were up, they have been downloaded 36 times. The malicious packages The attack started

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DeepSeek’s popularity exploited by malware peddlers, scammers

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DeepSeek’s popularity exploited by malware peddlers, scammers 2025-01-29 at 15:18 By Zeljka Zorz As US-based AI companies struggle with the news that the recently released Chinese-made open source DeepSeek-R1 reasoning model performs as well as theirs for a fraction of the cost, users are rushing to try out DeepSeek’s AI tool. In the process, they

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Europeans targeted with new Tor-using backdoor and infostealers

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Europeans targeted with new Tor-using backdoor and infostealers 2025-01-28 at 15:04 By Zeljka Zorz A financially motivated threat actor has been targeting German and Polish-speaking users with info-stealing malware and TorNet, a previously undocumented .NET backdoor that leverages the Tor network to evade detection. The phishing email The attacker sends out fake money transfer confirmations

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Juniper enterprise routers backdoored via “magic packet” malware

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Juniper enterprise routers backdoored via “magic packet” malware 2025-01-23 at 20:05 By Zeljka Zorz A stealthy attack campaign turned Juniper enterprise-grade routers into entry points to corporate networks via the “J-magic” backdoor, which is loaded into the devices’ memory and spawns a reverse shell when instructed to do so. “Our telemetry indicates the J-magic campaign

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Defense strategies to counter escalating hybrid attacks

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Defense strategies to counter escalating hybrid attacks 2025-01-23 at 07:33 By Zeljka Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Tomer Shloman, Sr. Security Researcher at Trellix, talks about attack attribution, outlines solutions for recognizing hybrid threats, and offers advice on how organizations can protect themselves against hybrid attacks. What are the most promising technologies or

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China-aligned PlushDaemon APT compromises supply chain of Korean VPN

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China-aligned PlushDaemon APT compromises supply chain of Korean VPN 2025-01-22 at 08:04 By Help Net Security ESET researchers have uncovered a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean VPN provider, carried out by PlushDaemon, a newly identified China-aligned APT group. In this cyberespionage campaign, the attackers compromised the legitimate installer, replacing it with a malicious

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FBI removed PlugX malware from U.S. computers

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FBI removed PlugX malware from U.S. computers 2025-01-15 at 14:24 By Help Net Security The Justice Department announced on Tuesday that, alongside international partners, the FBI deleted “PlugX” malware from thousands of infected computers worldwide. As described in court documents unsealed in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a group of hackers sponsored by the People’s

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Banshee Stealer variant targets Russian-speaking macOS users

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Banshee Stealer variant targets Russian-speaking macOS users 2025-01-09 at 19:48 By Zeljka Zorz The Banshee Stealer is a stealthy threat to the rising number of macOS users around the world, including those in Russian-speaking countries, according to Check Point researcher Antonis Terefos. Banshee Stealer was first publicly profiled in August 2024, a month after its

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Researchers reveal OT-specific malware in use and in development

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Researchers reveal OT-specific malware in use and in development 2024-12-17 at 16:43 By Zeljka Zorz Malware that’s made specifically to target industrial control systems (ICS), Internet of Things (IoT) and operational technology (OT) control devices is still rare, but in the last few weeks security researchers have identified two salient threats based on samples uploaded

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Malvertising on steroids serves Lumma infostealer

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Malvertising on steroids serves Lumma infostealer 2024-12-17 at 14:30 By Zeljka Zorz A large-scale malvertising campaign distributing the Lumma infostealer malware via intrusive “ads” leading to fake CAPTCHA pages has been tied by researchers to a threat actor abusing the Monetag ad network. The campaign from the users’ perspective Internet users usually land on one

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