MAL-2025-8867 Malicious code in @malware-test-pulka-crown-clour-decoy/test-mlw3-pulka-crown-clour-decoy (npm)

The package @malware-test-pulka-crown-clour-decoy/test-mlw3-pulka-crown-clour-decoy was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-8952 Malicious code in @malware-test-spook-edges-corse-decoy/test-mlw3-spook-edges-corse-decoy (npm)

The package @malware-test-spook-edges-corse-decoy/test-mlw3-spook-edges-corse-decoy was found to contain malicious code...

Malicious code in @malware-test-spook-edges-corse-decoy/test-mlw3-spook-edges-corse-decoy (npm)

The package @malware-test-spook-edges-corse-decoy/test-mlw3-spook-edges-corse-decoy was found to contain malicious code...

Exploring Satellite Quantum Key Distribution under Atmospheric Constraints

Satellite Quantum Key Distribution creates a pathway for secure global communication with a level of security that is peerless. However, ground-to-satellite Quantum Key Distribution links are degraded due to the atmospheric turbulence. This paper gives a numerical framework using angular spectrum...

Secure Development of a Hooking-Based Deception Framework against Keylogging Techniques

Keyloggers remain a serious threat in modern cybersecurity, silently capturing user keystrokes to steal credentials and sensitive information. Traditional defenses focus mainly on detection and removal, which can halt malicious activity but do little to engage or mislead adversaries. In this pape...

Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits Russian Aerospace Sector Using EAGLET Backdoor

Russian aerospace and defense industries have become the target of a cyber espionage campaign that delivers a backdoor called EAGLET to facilitate data exfiltration. The activity, dubbed Operation CargoTalon , has been assigned to a threat cluster tracked as UNG0901 short for Unknown Group 901...

Realistic Vulnerabilities of Decoy-State Quantum Key Distribution

We analyze realistic vulnerabilities of decoy-state quantum key distribution QKD arising from the combination of laser damage attack LDA and unambiguous state discrimination USD. While decoy-state QKD is designed to protect against photon-number-splitting and beam-splitting attacks by accurately...

New Konfety Malware Variant Evades Detection by Manipulating APKs and Dynamic Code

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated variant of a known Android malware referred to as Konfety that leverages the evil twin technique to enable ad fraud. The sneaky approach essentially involves a scenario wherein two variants of an application share the same package nam...

CVE-2022-27969

Cynet 360 Web Portal before v4.5 was discovered to allow attackers to access a list of decoy users via a crafted GET request sent to /WebApp/DeceptionUser/GetAllDeceptionUsers...

University site cloned to evade ad detection distributes fake Cisco installer

There is a constant "cat and mouse" game between defenders and attackers, the latter trying to outsmart and get a head start on the former. In the context of online advertising, this involves creating fake identities or using stolen ones to push out malicious ads. An attacker not only needs to...

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...

Threat actors use copyright infringement phishing lure to deploy infostealers

Cisco Talos has observed an unknown threat actor conducting a phishing campaign targeting Facebook business and advertising account users in Taiwan. The decoy email and fake PDF filenames are designed to impersonate a company's legal department, attempting to lure the victim into downloading and...

Large scale Google Ads campaign targets utility software

After what seemed like a long hiatus, we've observed threat actors returning to malvertising to drop malware disguised as software downloads. The campaign we identified is high-impact, going after utility software such as Slack, Notion, Calendly, Odoo, Basecamp, and others. For this blog, we...

Chinese Hackers Exploit GeoServer Flaw to Target APAC Nations with EAGLEDOOR Malware

A suspected advanced persistent threat APT originating from China targeted a government organization in Taiwan, and possibly other countries in the Asia-Pacific APAC region, by exploiting a recently patched critical security flaw impacting OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools. The intrusion activity, which w...

Fake Canva home page leads to browser lock

In a previous blog post, we showed how fraudsters were leveraging features from the very company Microsoft they were impersonating. We continue this series with another clever trick abusing Canva, a popular online tool for graphic design. This time, the scammers registered an account on Canva to...

Fraudulent Slack ad shows malvertiser’s patience and skills

In the past year alone, we have reported almost five hundred unique malvertising incidents related to Google search ads. While it can be difficult to attribute each incident to a specific threat actor, we usually notice similarities between campaigns. Some malvertisers go to great lengths to bypa...

New UULoader Malware Distributes Gh0st RAT and Mimikatz in East Asia

A new type of malware called UULoader is being used by threat actors to deliver next-stage payloads like Gh0st RAT and Mimikatz. The Cyberint Research Team, which discovered the malware, said it's distributed in the form of malicious installers for legitimate applications targeting Korean and...

Cybercriminals Abusing Cloudflare Tunnels to Evade Detection and Spread Malware

Cybersecurity companies are warning about an uptick in the abuse of Clouflare's TryCloudflare free service for malware delivery. The activity, documented by both eSentire and Proofpoint, entails the use of TryCloudflare to create a rate-limited tunnel that acts as a conduit to relay traffic from ...

'Konfety' Ad Fraud Uses 250+ Google Play Decoy Apps to Hide Malicious Twins

Details have emerged about a "massive ad fraud operation" that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities. The campaign has been codenamed Konfety – the Russian word for Candy – owing to its abuse of a mobile advertising software development kit...

Chinese Hackers Deploy SpiceRAT and SugarGh0st in Global Espionage Campaign

A previously undocumented Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed SneakyChef has been linked to an espionage campaign primarily targeting government entities across Asia and EMEA Europe, Middle East, and Africa with SugarGh0st malware since at least August 2023. "SneakyChef uses lures that are...