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Malware

Raven Stealer: The New Infostealer Using Telegram to Steal Your Data

Researchers from the Lat61 Threat Intelligence Team have published a comprehensive analysis of Raven Stealer, a lightweight, furtive infostealer written in Delphi and C++. The report details its credential-theft capabilities, methods for clandestine exfiltration...

Malware

New Python Trojan XillenStealer Targets Windows Users

The newly discovered Python trojan XillenStealer, identified by researchers at Cyfirma, poses a grave threat to Windows users. Engineered to harvest system information, stored credentials, and cryptocurrency wallets, it also bundles an array of...

Cybercriminals

The SlopAds Operation: A New Level of Ad Fraud

A sprawling advertising-fraud operation known as SlopAds hid behind a storefront of hundreds of seemingly innocuous Android apps and ballooned into a global enterprise. Researchers at Satori (HUMAN) recently described how 224 programs amassed...

Malware

New FileFix Attack: Hiding Malware in Plain Sight

Acronis researchers have reported a fresh campaign that employs a modified FileFix technique to deliver the StealC data stealer. The attackers staged a convincing, multilingual phishing operation that forges pages for various services —...

Malware

Poisoned Packages: A New Attack Hits the npm Ecosystem

Researchers at Socket have disclosed a new attack against the npm ecosystem, in which more than 40 packages were discovered to be laced with embedded malicious code. The compromise mechanism was meticulously engineered: it...

Malware

The Art of Digital Evasion: How Attackers Hide in Plain Sight

In the second quarter of 2025, experts at HP Wolf Security documented a wave of sophisticated attacks in which adversaries employed unconventional living-off-the-land (LOTL) tactics to evade detection. Multiple obscure system utilities were brought...

Malware

The Silent Threat: How SEO Poisoning Spreads Malware

Chinese-language users became the target of a new SEO poisoning campaign that spread malware through counterfeit download sites for popular applications. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs reports that threat actors elevated malicious pages in Google results...

Malware

EvilAI: The New Malware Using AI to Evade Detection

A new campaign leveraging the EvilAI malware, tracked by researchers at Trend Micro, has demonstrated how artificial intelligence can be weaponized as a tool of cybercrime. In recent weeks, dozens of infections have been...

Malware

Danger in the Code: Malicious Extensions Threaten Developers

The hacker collective WhiteCobra has launched a large-scale campaign targeting users of popular code editors including VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf. Researchers at Koi Security uncovered 24 malicious extensions hosted on official repositories such...