North Korea's APT37 Uses Facebook Social Engineering to Deliver RokRAT Malware

The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 aka ScarCruft has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building exercise into a delivery...

Backdoor in Notepad++

Hackers associated with the Chinese government used a Trojaned version of Notepad++ to deliver malware to selected users. Notepad++ said that officials with the unnamed provider hosting the update infrastructure consulted with incident responders and found that it remained compromised until...

The Notepad++ supply chain attack — unnoticed execution chains and new IoCs

UPD 11.02.2026: added recommendations on how to use the Notepad++ supply chain attack rules package in our SIEM system. Introduction On February 2, 2026, the developers of Notepad++, a text editor popular among developers, published a statement claiming that the update infrastructure of Notepad++...

Lazarus Group Orchestrates Supply Chain Attack on CyberLink Corp

Summary: The Lazarus Group Labyrinth Chollima orchestrated a supply chain attack on CyberLink Corp., manipulating a legitimate application installer to impact over 100 devices globally. The attack involves a second-stage payload, labeled LambLoad, communicating with compromised infrastructure and...

CVE-2022-23718

PingID Windows Login prior to 2.8 uses known vulnerable components that can lead to remote code execution. An attacker capable of achieving a sophisticated man-in-the-middle position, or to compromise Ping Identity web servers, could deliver malicious code that would be executed as SYSTEM by the...

People’s Republic of China State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Exploit Network Providers and Devices

Summary Best Practices • Apply patches as soon as possible • Disable unnecessary ports and protocols • Replace end-of-life infrastructure • Implement a centralized patch management system This joint Cybersecurity Advisory describes the ways in which People’s Republic of China PRC state-sponsored...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Solaris (CNVD-2022-36957)

Oracle Solaris is a set of UNIX operating systems from Oracle. Oracle Solaris has a security vulnerability that could allow a low-privileged attacker to compromise Oracle Solaris by logging on to the infrastructure that executes Oracle Solaris.A successful attack would require human-computer...

Gaming Software Supply-Chain Attack Installs Spyware

Researchers allege, attackers have compromised the update mechanism of NoxPlayer, which is software that allows gamers to run Android apps on their PCs or Macs. They then installed malware onto victims’ devices with surveillance-related capabilities. NoxPlayer is developed by BigNox, which is a...

Unhappy Hour Special: KEGTAP and SINGLEMALT With a Ransomware Chaser

Throughout 2020, ransomware activity has become increasingly prolific, relying on an ecosystem of distinct but co-enabling operations to gain access to targets of interest before conducting extortion. Mandiant Threat Intelligence has tracked several loader and backdoor campaigns that lead to the...