5 Active Malware Campaigns in Q1 2025

The first quarter of 2025 has been a battlefield in the world of cybersecurity. Cybercriminals continued launching aggressive new campaigns and refining their attack methods. Below is an overview of five notable malware families, accompanied by analyses conducted in controlled environments...

2,500+ Truesight.sys Driver Variants Exploited to Bypass EDR and Deploy HiddenGh0st RAT

A large-scale malware campaign has been found leveraging a vulnerable Windows driver associated with Adlice's product suite to sidestep detection efforts and deliver the Gh0st RAT malware. "To further evade detection, the attackers deliberately generated multiple variants with different hashes of...

SystemBC RAT Now Targets Linux, Spreading Ransomware and Infostealers

SystemBC RAT now targets Linux, enabling ransomware gangs like Ryuk & Conti to spread, evade detection, and maintain encrypted C2 traffic for stealthy cyberattacks...

Threat Actors Exploit ClickFix to Deploy NetSupport RAT in Latest Cyber Attacks

Threat actors have observed the increasingly common ClickFix technique to deliver a remote access trojan named NetSupport RAT since early January 2025. NetSupport RAT, typically propagated via bogus websites and fake browser updates, grants attackers full control over the victim's host, allowing...

Hackers Use XWorm RAT to Exploit Script Kiddies, Pwning 18,000 Devices

Crooks pwning crooks - Hackers exploit script kiddies with XWorm RAT, compromising 18,000+ devices globally and stealing sensitive…...

Researchers Expose NonEuclid RAT Using UAC Bypass and AMSI Evasion Techniques

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new remote access trojan called NonEuclid that allows bad actors to remotely control compromised Windows systems. "The NonEuclid remote access trojan RAT, developed in C, is a highly sophisticated malware offering unauthorised remote access with...

NPM Package Disguised as an Ethereum Tool Deploys Quasar RAT

Researchers discovered a malicious package on the npm package registry that resembles a library for Ethereum smart contract vulnerabilities but actually drops an open-source remote access trojan called Quasar RAT onto developer systems...

Malicious Obfuscated NPM Package Disguised as an Ethereum Tool Deploys Quasar RAT

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the npm package registry that masquerades as a library for detecting vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts but, in reality, drops an open-source remote access trojan called Quasar RAT onto developer systems. The heavily...

New DroidBot Android Spyware Targeting Banking and Crypto Users

DroidBot, a sophisticated Android RAT, is targeting individuals and financial institutions across Europe...

Horns&Hooves Campaign Delivers RATs via Fake Emails and JavaScript Payloads

A newly discovered malware campaign has been found to target private users, retailers, and service businesses mainly located in Russia to deliver NetSupport RAT and BurnsRAT. The campaign, dubbed Horns &Hooves by Kaspersky, has hit more than 1,000 victims since it began around March 2023. The end...

Horns&Hooves campaign delivers NetSupport RAT and BurnsRAT

Recent months have seen a surge in mailings with lookalike email attachments in the form of a ZIP archive containing JScript scripts. The script files – disguised as requests and bids from potential customers or partners – bear names such as "Запрос цены и предложения от Индивидуального...

Game of Emperor: Unveiling Long Term Earth Estries Cyber Intrusions

Since 2023, APT group Earth Estries has aggressively targeted key industries globally with sophisticated techniques and new backdoors, like GHOSTSPIDER and MASOL RAT, for prolonged espionage operations...

Russian Hackers Exploit New NTLM Flaw to Deploy RAT Malware via Phishing Emails

A newly patched security flaw impacting Windows NT LAN Manager NTLM was exploited as a zero-day by a suspected Russia-linked actor as part of cyber attacks targeting Ukraine. The vulnerability in question, CVE-2024-43451 CVSS score: 6.5, refers to an NTLM hash disclosure spoofing vulnerability th...

CVE-2024-10577 Fat Rat Collect <= 2.7.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The 胖鼠采集Fat Rat Collect 微信知乎简书腾讯新闻列表分页采集, 还有自动采集、自动发布、自动标签、等多项功能。开源插件 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting due to missing escaping on a URL in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web...

CVE-2024-10577 Fat Rat Collect <= 2.7.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

The 胖鼠采集Fat Rat Collect 微信知乎简书腾讯新闻列表分页采集, 还有自动采集、自动发布、自动标签、等多项功能。开源插件 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting due to missing escaping on a URL in all versions up to, and including, 2.7.3. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web...

CVE-2024-10577

CVE-2024-10577 concerns the Fat Rat Collect WordPress plugin. The vulnerability is a Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) due to missing URL escaping, affecting all versions up to and including 2.7.3. Unauthenticated attackers could inject arbitrary scripts in pages executed when a user performs ...

WordPress plugin Fat Rat Collect 跨站脚本漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A security vulnerability...

WordPress Fat Rat Collect plugin <= 2.7.3 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability

Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability discovered by Peter Thaleikis in WordPress Plugin Fat Rat Collect versions = 2.7.3...

PT-2024-16376 · WordPress · Fat Rat Collect

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Fat Rat Collect plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.7.3 Description: The issue is related to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting due to missing escaping on a URL. This allows unauthenticated attackers to inject arbitrary web...

WordPress Fat Rat Collect Plugin <= 2.7.3 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Software Fat Rat Collect Type Plugin Vulnerable versions = 2.7.3 Fixed in 2.7.4 OWASP Top 10 A7: Cross-Site Scripting XSS Classification Cross Site Scripting XSS CVE CVE-2024-10577 Patch priority Medium CVSS severity Medium 7.1 Developer Claim ownership PSID 1bb18ef91a7a Credits Peter Thaleikis...