Notepad++ Updates Delivered Malware After Hosting Provider Breach

A months-long breach allowed Chinese State-sponsored hackers to hijack Notepad++ updates in 2025, exposing users to malware via a compromised hosting provider...

How fake party invitations are being used to install remote access tools

“You’re invited!” It sounds friendly, familiar and quite harmless. But in a scam we recently spotted, that simple phrase is being used to trick victims into installing a full remote access tool on their Windows computers—giving attackers complete control of the system. What appears to be a casual...

Malicious code in callapirequests (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 6e7fadeb48347b57805dea2f58d0f662e43170e0e4439a424f6dec66cf285452 Importing the module downloads and starts remote executable identified as malware --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like...

Notepad++ Official Update Mechanism Hijacked to Deliver Malware to Select Users

The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility's update mechanism to redirect update traffic to malicious servers instead. "The attack involved an infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic...

Malicious code in dise-pkt (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector b02da19d128c79fa9465ba506ff8f53abb3ef541a1da253174255be017c9fd97 The package dise-pkt was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware 58b8c2811e173e83d76597b5cb08d80de79cbc72396b7ba7957ed6c15a6003a2 Any...

MAL-2026-648 Malicious code in yazxzpedia (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 0f94694d3882914e6f75cc35db5533b7d7c4d9caebb2631033de332d3c49e562 The package yazxzpedia was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware e97d515edc36ba99b0d5fa4cc5cd35798ff96229f05a9f93ba6dbef0631f1ac0 Any...

Malicious code in connections-api-requests (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 5d9023bd1b2434b0519e9f26fe6d776297700ef0d80c05ba50ead13c6e3d61bb Importing the module downloads and starts remote executable identified as malware --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like...

Malicious code in connections-api-request (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 cbd9a8004eda10de0059f97712efe95c76e4302c5da5ff83e7fe3bdd3abd381b Importing the module downloads and starts remote executable identified as malware --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like...

MAL-2026-640 Malicious code in connections-api-request (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 cbd9a8004eda10de0059f97712efe95c76e4302c5da5ff83e7fe3bdd3abd381b Importing the module downloads and starts remote executable identified as malware --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like...

Malicious code in connection-api-requests (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 1e1edf0790733aa25ad085b523a095b1ee4abee84eca696bbcaf1682cca2c2ad Importing the module downloads and starts remote executable identified as malware --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like...

eScan Antivirus Update Servers Compromised to Deliver Multi-Stage Malware

The update infrastructure for eScan antivirus, a security solution developed by Indian cybersecurity company MicroWorld Technologies, has been compromised by unknown attackers to deliver a persistent downloader to enterprise and consumer systems. "Malicious updates were distributed through eScan'...

Malicious code in finnairshop (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 79d4d53f987d9f13e00e895d04155d3d28ea228eacb34a2f273667e520c5525f The package finnairshop was found to contain malicious code...

Malware Detection through Memory Analysis

This paper summarizes the research conducted for a malware detection project using the Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity's MalMemAnalysis-2022 dataset. The purpose of the project was to explore the effectiveness and efficiency of machine learning techniques for the task of binary classificatio...

ctf-skills

ctf-skills Claude Codehttps://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/c...

Windows Malware Uses Pulsar RAT for Live Chats While Stealing Data

We usually think of computer viruses as silent, invisible programs running in the background, but a worrying discovery shows that modern hackers are getting much more personal...

Arsink Spyware Posing as WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Hits 143 Countries

Another day, another Android malware campaign targeting unsuspecting users worldwide by masquerading as popular apps...

MAL-2026-606 Malicious code in userver-requires-at-least-python-3-10 (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 482925eb73388f3c834ceef6db5714f819970521367f7129878e38afbaa08bf0 Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose. --- Category: PROBABLYPENTES...

Malicious code in wallet-icon-font (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector a89aa304ab9d5d7a44ee3e88112f9e35b876ad03a87090749c929e882289c721 The package wallet-icon-font was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware 319f118931c6d4b46c7bf09c9474dd23e24873b1c32f093f631cc3dccd10ec...

MAL-2026-591 Malicious code in kol7a (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector a81ab7bff0ce4494ac98d492444f18a8ec22e0d34f4cbaa30314de910b6a1039 The package kol7a was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware 34930716d17313165d83a1830db1542583fbd4c6e6cf873c66cb3dfb5fbfb336 Any...

Malicious code in lvldragdrop (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 58ce81a159192ad7b893014354e6d4e99dd61e918b75bf4a1c2e787d3373aa26 The package lvldragdrop was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware 78a2a28643bce407d3eb1ba2f9524eb15c5bdf4879ffb0cc93e0ccef865fab26 An...