Operation ForumTroll continues: Russian political scientists targeted using plagiarism reports

Introduction In March 2025, we discovered Operation ForumTroll, a series of sophisticated cyberattacks exploiting the CVE-2025-2783 vulnerability in Google Chrome. We previously detailed the malicious implants used in the operation: the LeetAgent backdoor and the complex spyware Dante, developed ...

A Browser Extension Risk Guide After the ShadyPanda Campaign

In early December 2025, security researchers exposed a cybercrime campaign that had quietly hijacked popular Chrome and Edge browser extensions on a massive scale. A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda spent seven years playing the long game, publishing or acquiring harmless extensions, letting them r...

Phantom Stealer Spread by ISO Phishing Emails Hitting Russian Finance Sector

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active phishing campaign that's targeting a wide range of sectors in Russia with phishing emails that deliver Phantom Stealer via malicious ISO optical disc images. The activity, codenamed Operation MoneyMount-ISO by Seqrite Labs, has primari...

DroidLock malware locks you out of your Android device and demands ransom

Researchers have analyzed a new threat campaign actively targeting Android users. The malware, named DroidLock, takes over a device and then holds it for ransom. The campaign to date has primarily targeted Spanish-speaking users, but researchers warn it could spread. DroidLock is delivered via...

Scammers Sent 40,000 E-Signature Phishing Emails to 6,000 Firms in Just 2 Weeks

Phishing campaign: Scammers sent over 40,000 spoofed SharePoint, DocuSign and e-sign emails to companies, hiding malicious links behind trusted redirect services...

WIRTE Leverages AshenLoader Sideloading to Install the AshTag Espionage Backdoor

An advanced persistent threat APT known as WIRTE has been attributed to attacks targeting government and diplomatic entities across the Middle East with a previously undocumented malware suite dubbed AshTag since 2020. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the activity cluster under the name Ash...

Malicious code in gxzip (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 8e0dd8700d5267b8d9bbe270798b11d2250761decf1de89249eab6d90a29080c During initialization of the archive-support class, the package starts code from another file and downloads multi-stage malware --- Category: MALICIOUS - The...

MAL-2025-192467 Malicious code in gxzip (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 8e0dd8700d5267b8d9bbe270798b11d2250761decf1de89249eab6d90a29080c During initialization of the archive-support class, the package starts code from another file and downloads multi-stage malware --- Category: MALICIOUS - The...

Malicious code in netbenchkit (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 fa328b263fd5f17449e326d05af9a5849a25d6c028d092e586097e95c4e1db59 Package imports and executes malicious synium package --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign:...

MAL-2025-192437 Malicious code in netbenchkit (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 fa328b263fd5f17449e326d05af9a5849a25d6c028d092e586097e95c4e1db59 Package imports and executes malicious synium package --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign:...

MAL-2025-192438 Malicious code in synium (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 85fc917c33d970cb3365ff112f788b229638b757c32eaf99ba1054c8596298c1 During import, package exfiltrates specific global variables to a remote target in a way typical for infostealers --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has...

MAL-2025-192436 Malicious code in jsonschema-utf8 (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 61bf4fa82a7c398e580d547d641bc19e3b16ba446191da04f39dcf9cf9a41eab Package clones a popular package loguru, jsonschema, .... While it claims to have some additional features, the real change is an added compiled native library...

MAL-2025-192435 Malicious code in loguru-utf8 (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 e20933ac001bbe12fd7962f9e12208f3224c836f3deba7669a649165232e0b78 Package clones a popular package loguru, jsonschema, .... While it claims to have some additional features, the real change is an added compiled native library...

Malicious code in bigpyx (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 7a1bcd636394f1505534cf691576b00e8686aa14474e8a209c94f8213310b128 Continuation of the campaign with a slight different obfuscation of the malicious code, but there seems to be no difference in the behavior. The malicious code...

MAL-2025-192430 Malicious code in bigpyx (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 7a1bcd636394f1505534cf691576b00e8686aa14474e8a209c94f8213310b128 Continuation of the campaign with a slight different obfuscation of the malicious code, but there seems to be no difference in the behavior. The malicious code...

Malicious code in bignum (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 251c8009e3a70f8c3a3a8283dc7f2b603838ec892d7773f0b4886122ff0d97c5 In this incarnation, the package is no longer a clone of networkx, but continues to use the same technique to run secretly remote code and cover tracks ---...

MAL-2025-192391 Malicious code in bignum (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 251c8009e3a70f8c3a3a8283dc7f2b603838ec892d7773f0b4886122ff0d97c5 In this incarnation, the package is no longer a clone of networkx, but continues to use the same technique to run secretly remote code and cover tracks ---...

Storm-0249 Escalates Ransomware Attacks with ClickFix, Fileless PowerShell, and DLL Sideloading

The threat actor known as Storm-0249 is likely shifting from its role as an initial access broker to adopt a combination of more advanced tactics like domain spoofing, DLL side-loading, and fileless PowerShell execution to facilitate ransomware attacks. "These methods allow them to bypass defense...

MAL-2025-192386 Malicious code in telcoo (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 c96937a82adce2ecc6628245fd858587131511b4145c04f577ec25d8fa846577 Running the module starts a reverse shell --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-12-evil-rce...

MAL-2025-192385 Malicious code in graphsync (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 dbb10327d6553750848c2b849abba1ed717438928a6cfdc148b73de73db8e9db This is a malicious copy of the networkx package. It contains an obfuscated script that downloads and runs further scripts from one of multiple locations, and...