Fake CAPTCHA sites now have tutorial videos to help victims install malware

Early on in 2025, I described how criminals used fake CAPTCHA sites and a clipboard hijacker to provide instructions for website visitors that would effectively infect their own machines with an information stealer known as the Lumma Stealer. ClickFix is the name researchers have since given to...

Uncommon infection methods—part 2

Introduction Although ransomware is still a hot topic on which we will keep on publishing, we also investigate and publish about other threats. Recently we explored the topic of infection methods, including malvertising and malicious downloads. In this blog post, we provide excerpts from the rece...

Emotet Now Spreading Through Malicious Excel Files

The infamous Emotet malware has switched tactics yet again, in an email campaign propagating through malicious Excel files, researchers have found. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have observed a new infection approach for the high-volume malware, which is known to modify and change its...

New Virus Decides If Your Computer Good for Mining or Ransomware

Security researchers have discovered an interesting piece of malware that infects systems with either a cryptocurrency miner or ransomware, depending upon their configurations to decide which of the two schemes could be more profitable. While ransomware is a type of malware that locks your comput...

Cryptomining is all the rage among hackers, as DDoS amplification attacks continue

In this week’s InfoSec news review we’ll dive into cryptomining, get the latest on DDoS amplification, go over recent data breaches, and check out another vendor claiming it can crack iPhones. I, me, mine The freight train that’s cryptomining shows no sign of slowing down, and the cyber security...

Luckystrike - A PowerShell based utility for the creation of malicious Office macro documents

A PowerShell based utility for the creation of malicious Office macro documents. To be used for pentesting or educational purposes only. Luckystrike is a menu-drive SET style PowerShell-based generator of malicious .xls and .doc documents. All your payloads are saved into a database for easy...

Following Lull, New Campaigns Pushing Retooled 'Pumpkin' Locky

New and increasingly diverse variants of ransomware are released weekly, but developers behind the Locky strain have managed to keep the malware fresh in the face of changing trends. Researchers with Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group said this week they observed three separat...