Category: Malware

Convertr supply chain attack diagram illustrating Plausible analytics script compromise and digital credit card skimmer injection 0

Convertr Supply Chain Attack Breaches Brazilian Stores

A solitary compromised file allowed cybercriminals to harvest credit card data across dozens of prominent Brazilian retailers. Specifically, the malicious actors embedded an invisible digital skimmer inside a routine analytics script. The infected script...

Popcorn Time updater flaw CVE-2026-30612 in the abandoned Time4Popcorn client, which let attackers run SYSTEM-level code on millions of PCs 0

Popcorn Time Updater Flaw Threatened a Huge Botnet

A Forgotten Backdoor on Millions of PCs An abandoned build of Popcorn Time kept a dangerous mechanism on millions of computers for years. Through it, anyone could quietly run code with top system privileges....

Speaker-activated backdoor attack in a speech recognition model that adds a payment request to one person's transcript for an AI agent 0

Speaker-Activated Backdoor Hijacks Speech AI Agents

A Backdoor That Listens for One Voice Researchers have taught speech recognition systems to recognize a specific person by voice. At that moment, the system secretly changes the person’s words. In the most dangerous...

LiteLLM supply chain attack diagram showing malicious pth file execution and credential exfiltration 0

LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack Compromises PyPI and Docker

Merely launching Python after installing LiteLLM triggered immediate credential theft. On October 21, threat actors injected a malicious data stealer into version 1.107.0. The compromise affected all seven PyPI wheel releases and official Docker...

PAN-OS GlobalProtect vulnerability CVE-2026-0257 abused by Qilin and Inc ransomware to bypass VPN authentication and reach internal networks 0

PAN-OS Flaw Fuels Qilin and Inc Ransomware Attacks

A Firewall Bug Becomes a Ransomware Tool A flaw in Palo Alto Networks enterprise firewalls has become a full-fledged ransomware tool. It lets attackers enter protected networks without a password. Unit 42 confirmed that...

Fake Arch Linux packages posing as yay and paru in the AUR, running a root shell script in a yay paru malware campaign 0

Fake yay and paru Packages Hit Arch Linux AUR

Counterfeit AUR Helpers Run Code as Root Researchers found fake Arch Linux packages that pose as the popular tools yay and paru. During installation, they run malicious code with root privileges. The attackers kept...

Cryptographic AI backdoor hidden within neural network weights digital safe diagram 0

Researchers Build Cryptographic AI Backdoor in Neural Networks

Computer science researchers recently demonstrated a novel technique to conceal dormant functions within artificial neural networks. Even auditors with unrestricted access to model weights cannot trigger the hidden functionality through standard testing. Specifically, engineers...

XWorm malware plugins architecture and Windows ResetSurvival remote access trojan analysis 0

XWorm Malware Plugins Survive Windows Factory Resets

XWorm has crossed a critical threshold where a conventional Remote Access Trojan (RAT) begins operating like a comprehensive pocket surveillance suite. Recently, Netskope Threat Labs identified four distinct variants of the malware circulating actively...

macOS Claude malvertising attack redirect chain 0

macOS Claude Malvertising Attack Uses Bing Redirects

Threat actors have weaponized Google advertisements and Bing’s redirection architecture, forging an elaborate snare for macOS users seeking the Claude application. Analysts have unearthed a sophisticated paradigm wherein a promotional result for the query...

GhostAction attack compromised developer accounts GitHub supply chain 0

GhostAction Hack Compromises GitHub Developer Accounts

Malicious actors operating the GhostAction campaign successfully compromised two GitHub developer accounts. Within mere hours, they stealthily injected malicious scripts into a staggering minimum of 345 repositories. These insidious scripts systematically pilfered tokens and...