Malicious code in pyservercheck (PyPI)

Source: kam193 4b365b9df06973db4f112bdbf2ad704dcc91c1b7b3eaceddb06a8e884c3f760a Package embeds obfuscated, JS-based malware downloading further remote stages. The code is triggered during building the package and on every Python startup via PTH file. The next-stage IP is delivered via a blockchai...

MAL-2026-15603 Malicious code in pyservercheck (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d10f01e2954dde5faac23074d02bb989f22d0dcb78be82c1c4417531fef8b859 The package ships a bundled Node script pyservercheck/js/main.js whose visible top half is a healthcheck stub matching the README, followed by a long...

Malicious code in pyservercheck (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d10f01e2954dde5faac23074d02bb989f22d0dcb78be82c1c4417531fef8b859 The package ships a bundled Node script pyservercheck/js/main.js whose visible top half is a healthcheck stub matching the README, followed by a long...

Malicious code in pybitjs (PyPI)

Source: kam193 8cf3b72788a1ad482702768ea3b7f958793a0997cf77342578c31bc6dcfd23c8 Package embeds obfuscated, JS-based malware downloading further remote stages. The code is triggered during building the package and on every Python startup via PTH file. The next-stage IP is delivered via a blockchai...

MAL-2026-14545 Malicious code in pybitjs (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 611713d33cb9efee440b0a416812cbb2ceda3d43c0cdc73c1f8b353400209df5 The package's setuptools cmdclasses BuildPy, Develop invoke node pybitjs/js/main.js during pip install, and write a pybitjs.pth file containing impor...

Malicious code in pybitjs (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 611713d33cb9efee440b0a416812cbb2ceda3d43c0cdc73c1f8b353400209df5 The package's setuptools cmdclasses BuildPy, Develop invoke node pybitjs/js/main.js during pip install, and write a pybitjs.pth file containing impor...

Malicious Package

Overview agentgui is a malicious package. This package has been compromised as part of a malicious supply-chain attack linked to North Korean threat actors Contagious Interview campaign / Lazarus APT group. The legitimate package was hijacked, with intact functionality maintained to evade early...

The Crypto Game of Lazarus APT: Investors vs. Zero-days

Introduction Lazarus APT and its BlueNoroff subgroup are a highly sophisticated and multifaceted Korean-speaking threat actor. We closely monitor their activities and quite often see them using their signature malware in their attacks — a full-feature backdoor called Manuscrypt. According to our...

PT-2024-3653

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 125.0.6422.60 Chromium versions prior to 126.0.6478.182-alt0.c10.1 Chromium-Gost versions prior to 125.0.6422.112-alt0.c10.1 Yandex-browser-stable version 24.4.3.1111-alt1 Chromium versions prior to...

Lazarus APT Exploiting LinkedIn to Target Spanish Aerospace Firm

By Deeba Ahmed Previously, when the group exploited LinkedIn, it managed to pilfer a staggering $625 million from the Ronin Network RON blockchain network. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lazarus APT Exploiting LinkedIn to Target Spanish Aerospace Firm...

Lazarus and the tale of three RATs

By Jung soo An, Asheer Malhotra and Vitor Ventura. Cisco Talos has been tracking a new campaign operated by the Lazarus APT group, attributed to North Korea by the United States government. This campaign involved the exploitation of vulnerabilities in VMWare Horizon to gain an initial foothold in...

Lazarus is back, targeting organizations with cryptocurrency thefts via TraderTraitor malware

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and the U.S. Treasury Department Treasury have issued a joint Cybersecurity AdvisoryCSA to make organizations in the blockchai...

LAZARUS APT Using TraderTraitor Malware to Target Blockchain Orgs, Users

By Deeba Ahmed Lazarus APT group is backed by the North Korean government and is currently targeting organizations and unsuspecting users… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: LAZARUS APT Using TraderTraitor Malware to Target Blockchain Orgs, Users...

New PseudoManuscrypt Malware Infected Over 35,000 Computers in 2021

Industrial and government organizations, including enterprises in the military-industrial complex and research laboratories, are the targets of a new malware botnet dubbed PseudoManyscrypt that has infected roughly 35,000 Windows computers this year alone. The name comes from its similarities to...

PseudoManuscrypt: a mass-scale spyware attack campaign

In June 2021, Kaspersky ICS CERT experts identified malware whose loader has some similarities to the Manuscrypt malware, which is part of the Lazarus APT groups arsenal. In 2020, the group used Manuscrypt in attacks on defense enterprises in different countries. These attacks are described in th...

Lazarus APT Hackers are now using BMP images to hide RAT malware

A spear-phishing attack operated by a North Korean threat actor targeting its southern counterpart has been found to conceal its malicious code within a bitmap .BMP image file to drop a remote access trojan RAT capable of stealing sensitive information. Attributing the attack to the Lazarus Group...

Lazarus APT conceals malicious code within BMP image to drop its RAT

This blog was authored by Hossein Jazi Lazarus APT is one of the most sophisticated North Korean Threat Actors that has been active since at least 2009. This actor is known to target the U.S., South Korea, Japan and several other countries. In one of their most recent campaigns Lazarus used a...

Lazarus Targets Defense Companies with ThreatNeedle Malware

The prolific North Korean APT known as Lazarus is behind a spear-phishing campaign aimed at stealing critical data from defense companies by leveraging an advanced malware called ThreatNeedle, new research has revealed. The elaborate and ongoing cyberespionage campaign used emails with COVID-19...

CRAT wants to plunder your endpoints

By Asheer Malhotra. Cisco Talos has observed a new version of a remote access trojan RAT family known as CRAT.Apart from the prebuilt RAT capabilities, the malware can download and deploy additional malicious plugins on the infected endpoint.One of the plugins is a ransomware known as "Hansom."CR...

TrickBot Switches to a New Windows 10 UAC Bypass to Evade Detection

The TrickBot trojan has evolved again to bolster its ability to elude detection, this time adding a feature that can bypass Windows 10 User Account Control UAC to deliver malware across multiple workstations and endpoints on a network, researchers have discovered. Researchers at Morphisec Labs te...