Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-hextest is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren'...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-nordica is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren'...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-sync is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-health is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-monitor is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren'...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-server is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-finseven is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-nordica-lite is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-health-check is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-config is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-sitemap-gen is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-seed is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-nordica-tools is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-nordica-deep is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-nordica-sync is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-debug-tools is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages...

The democratisation of business email compromise fraud

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Last weekend, I witnessed a crime. Not a notable crime that you might read about in the press, but an unremarkable fraud attempt that nevertheless illustrates how new threat actor capabilities are emerging. I imagine that most people...

WhatsApp Alerts 200 Users After Fake iOS App Installed Spyware; Italian Firm Faces Action

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp said it alerted about 200 users who were tricked into installing a bogus version of its iOS app that was infected with spyware. According to reports from Italian newspaper La Repubblica and news agency ANSA, the vast majority of the targets are located in...

Synthetic Trust Attacks: Modeling How Generative AI Manipulates Human Decisions in Social Engineering Fraud

Imagine receiving a video call from your CFO, surrounded by colleagues, asking you to urgently authorise a confidential transfer. You comply. Every person on that call was fake, and you just lost $25 million. This is not a hypothetical. It happened in Hong Kong in January 2024, and it is becoming...

Microsoft Warns of WhatsApp-Delivered VBS Malware Hijacking Windows via UAC Bypass

Microsoft is calling attention to a new campaign that has leveraged WhatsApp messages to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script VBS files. The activity, beginning in late February 2026, leverages these scripts to initiate a multi-stage infection chain for establishing persistence and enabling...