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Beware: GitHub's Fake Popularity Scam Tricking Developers into Downloading Malware
2024-04-10 12:38

Threat actors are now taking advantage of GitHub's search functionality to trick unsuspecting users looking for popular repositories into downloading spurious counterparts that serve malware. The...

Malicious Visual Studio projects on GitHub push Keyzetsu malware
2024-04-10 11:00

Threat actors are abusing GitHub automation features and malicious Visual Studio projects to push a new variant of the "Keyzetsu" clipboard-hijacking malware and steal cryptocurrency payments. Users downloading files from those repositories become infected with malware hidden within Visual Studio project files and stealthily executed during the project build.

Microsoft fixes two Windows zero-days exploited in malware attacks
2024-04-09 22:06

Microsoft has fixed two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities during the April 2024 Patch Tuesday, although the company failed to initially tag them as such. "Just as we did in 2022, we immediately reported our findings to the Microsoft Security Response Center. After validating our discovery, the team at Microsoft has added the relevant files to its revocation list," Budd said.

Attackers Using Obfuscation Tools to Deliver Multi-Stage Malware via Invoice Phishing
2024-04-09 07:24

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an intricate multi-stage attack that leverages invoice-themed phishing decoys to deliver a wide range of malware such as Venom RAT, Remcos RAT, XWorm,...

Critical Flaws Leave 92,000 D-Link NAS Devices Vulnerable to Malware Attacks
2024-04-09 05:46

Threat actors are actively scanning and exploiting a pair of security flaws that are said to affect as many as 92,000 internet-exposed D-Link network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Tracked...

Watch Out for 'Latrodectus' - This Malware Could Be In Your Inbox
2024-04-08 11:29

Threat hunters have discovered a new malware called Latrodectus that has been distributed as part of email phishing campaigns since at least late November 2023. "Latrodectus is an up-and-coming...

Fake Facebook MidJourney AI page promoted malware to 1.2 million people
2024-04-05 16:47

Hackers are using Facebook advertisements and hijacked pages to promote fake Artificial Intelligence services, such as MidJourney, OpenAI's SORA and ChatGPT-5, and DALL-E, to infect unsuspecting users with password-stealing malware. In one of the cases seen by researchers at Bitdefender, a malicious Facebook page impersonating Midjourney amassed 1.2 million followers and remained active for nearly a year before it was eventually taken down.

From PDFs to Payload: Bogus Adobe Acrobat Reader Installers Distribute Byakugan Malware
2024-04-05 09:40

Bogus installers for Adobe Acrobat Reader are being used to distribute a new multi-functional malware dubbed Byakugan. The starting point of the attack is a PDF file written in Portuguese that,...

New Wave of JSOutProx Malware Targeting Financial Firms in APAC and MENA
2024-04-05 07:48

Financial organizations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are being targeted by a new version of an "evolving threat" called JSOutProx. "JSOutProx is a...

New Latrodectus malware replaces IcedID in network breaches
2024-04-04 20:38

A relatively new malware called Latrodectus is believed to be an evolution of the IcedID loader, seen in malicious email campaigns since November 2023. IcedID is a malware family first identified in 2017 that was originally classified as a modular banking trojan designed to steal financial information from infected computers.