Malicious Package

Overview polymarket-trading-cli is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this packag...

Unmasking Puppeteers: Leveraging Biometric Leakage to Disarm Impersonation in AI-Based Videoconferencing

AI-based talking-head videoconferencing systems reduce bandwidth by sending a compact pose-expression latent and re-synthesizing RGB at the receiver, but this latent can be puppeteered, letting an attacker hijack a victim's likeness in real time. Because every frame is synthetic, deepfake and...

PDFs: Portable documents, or perfect deliveries for phish?

Cisco recently developed and released an update to its brand impersonation detection engine for emails. This new update enhances detection coverage and includes a wider range of brands that are delivered using PDF payloads or attachments. A significant portion of email threats with PDF payloads...

Top Black Hat USA Sessions for Qualys Customers

Black Hat USA is known for cutting-edge security research, and this year’s conference is no different. If you’re a Qualys customer, here are some Black Hat sessions we think youll find relevant. Next-Gen DFIR: Mass Exploits & Supplier Compromise An investigation of real “next-gen” digital forensi...