AI brands as bait: How threat actors are using the AI hype in social engineering

In this article 1. ChatGPT-themed lure leads to phishing kit collecting credit card data 2. Claude-themed phishing campaign collected credentials and access tokens 3. "Awesome AI Windows Plugin” malvertising deploys Vidar stealer 4. Fake DeepSeek V4 installers on GitHub delivered Vidar Stealer 5...

AI Phishing Is Crushing SOCs with Alert Volume: How to Reduce Tier 1 Overload

Phishing has always been a numbers game. AI has turned it into a volume machine. Attackers can now create convincing emails, fake login pages, and tailored lures in minutes. Every polished message adds another case for Tier 1 to review, another link to inspect, and another alert that cannot be...

Old WinRAR Flaw Fuels Attacks on Ukraine: How Unmanaged Software Keeps the Door Open

Two separate Russia-aligned campaigns are still exploiting the WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 against Ukrainian organizations nearly a year after it was patched, showing how unmanaged software keeps an exploited entry point open long after the fix ships...

CVE-2026-31956

Xibo is an open source digital signage platform with a web content management system and Windows display player software. Prior to version 4.4.1, any authenticated user can manually construct a URL to preview campaigns/regions, and export saved reports belonging to other users. Exploitation of th...

CVE-2024-0391

The check user account lock states feature within the email OTP flow fails to validate user input, allowing an attacker to infer the existence of registered user accounts. The discovery of valid usernames can increase the risk of brute-force and social engineering attacks. Attackers can leverage...

Android Spyware Asin Targets Arabic Users via Fake News, PDF and War Map Apps

Arabic-speaking users have emerged as the target of a new Android spyware codenamed Asin , according to findings from ESET. The Slovakian cybersecurity company said it first detected the malware spread via multiple campaigns in early 2025, with each attack wave making use of distinct websites...

China-Linked TA4922 Expands Phishing Attacks to U.K., Germany, Italy, and South Africa

A new China-linked cybercrime group known as TA4922 has expanded its targeting focus to target European organizations in the U.K., Germany, Italy, and South Africa. These efforts have been complemented by a "rapid operational tempo" and a continually evolving malware arsenal comprising known...

Weedhack Attacks Minecraft Users, CountLoader Hits 86K, Miners Spread via Pirated Content

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new campaign targeting Minecraft players via YouTube to spread malware capable of gaining control of victims' systems. The Minecraft-focused malware-as-a-service MaaS campaign has been codenamed Weedhack by McAfee Labs, stating the activity has been active...

Fake virus alerts are invading mobile games

Sometimes it happens. You’re happily playing a game on your phone or laptop when suddenly alarms pop up out of nowhere: " Your device is infected!" " Your iCloud is full!" " Your account is restricted for watching porn!" Some games can be played for free if you agree to watch ads, and in others y...

Malicious Package

Overview ilovefemboys is a malicious package. This package is part of a malicious npm campaign that abused the registry to distribute ad-supported web proxy applications disguised as educational websites. The package contains web assets intended to bypass network restrictions and generate...

A week in security (May 25 – May 31)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Payment apps are watching what you say Lock and Code S07E11 Scammers pretending to be Microsoft had help from US executives 700+ education and tech websites hijacked in huge ClickFix malware campaign Fake software on GitHub and SourceForge distribute Deno RAT Fake...

CVE-2026-9236

The CM Ad Changer – A simple tool to control and optimize your site's banners plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the cmaccampaignsaction function. This makes it...

CVE-2026-9236

CVE-2026-9236 concerns the WordPress plugin CM Ad Changer. The vulnerability is a Cross-Site Request Forgery flaw in all versions up to and including 2.0.7 caused by missing or incorrect nonce validation in the cmac_campaigns_action function. This enables unauthenticated attackers to permanently ...

EUVD-2026-32051

The CM Ad Changer – A simple tool to control and optimize your site's banners plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.7. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the cmaccampaignsaction function. This makes it...

Iranian Hackers Deploy MiniFast and MiniJunk V2 via Phishing and SEO Poisoning

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as Nimbus Manticore aka Screening Serpens and UNC1549 has been attributed to a fresh campaign using lures impersonating organizations in the aviation and software sectors across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East following the joint U.S.-Israeli...

FuzzPilot: Plateau-Triggered Recipe Validation for Structured Text Fuzzing

FuzzPilot is a controller for AFL++ that moves expensive reasoning out of the mutation hot path. When coverage plateaus, it snapshots the corpus, prepares candidate mutation recipes, evaluates them in short isolated AFL++ micro-campaigns, and promotes only recipes with positive validation reward...

Q1 2026 Threat Landscape Report: Zero-clicks, geopolitical tensions, and some wins for law enforcement

The first quarter of 2026 reinforced that attackers are moving faster, operating with greater coordination, and exploiting weaknesses before most organizations can respond effectively. From escalating geopolitical tensions to increasingly aggressive ransomware operations, the latest quarterly...

Filter-Then-Verify: A Multiphase GNN and ModernBERT Framework for Social Engineering Detection in Email Networks

Social engineering attacks exploit human trust rather than software vulnerabilities, making them difficult to detect using conventional filters. We propose a two-stage filter-then-verify framework combining inductive Graph Neural Networks GNNs for structural anomaly detection with a co-attention...

China-Linked Twill Typhoon Uses Fake Apple and Yahoo Sites for Espionage

A new Darktrace report reveals how Chinese hackers use fake Apple and Yahoo sites and the FDMTP malware framework to spy on organisations...

Hackers Exploit Vercel GenAI to Mass-Produce Convincing Phishing Sites

Hackers are abusing Vercel GenAI to create convincing phishing sites that mimic major brands, including Microsoft, Adidas, and Nike, making scams harder to detect...