Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code that conceals a credential-stealing payload and worm propagation logic. A malicious actor associated with the "TeamPCP" or "Mini Shai-Hulud" campaign compromised a maintainer's access token; this allowed the...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code that conceals a credential-stealing payload and worm propagation logic. A malicious actor associated with the "TeamPCP" or "Mini Shai-Hulud" campaign compromised a maintainer's access token; this allowed the...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code that conceals a credential-stealing payload and worm propagation logic. A malicious actor associated with the "TeamPCP" or "Mini Shai-Hulud" campaign compromised a maintainer's access token; this allowed the...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code that conceals a credential-stealing payload and worm propagation logic. A malicious actor associated with the "TeamPCP" or "Mini Shai-Hulud" campaign compromised a maintainer's access token; this allowed the...

Embedded Malicious Code

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Embedded Malicious Code that conceals a credential-stealing payload and worm propagation logic. A malicious actor associated with the "TeamPCP" or "Mini Shai-Hulud" campaign compromised a maintainer's access token; this allowed the...

New Reaper Malware Uses Fake Microsoft Domain to Steal macOS Passwords

The newly discovered Reaper malware bypasses Apple's macOS Tahoe 26.4 security updates to steal passwords, crypto assets, and install a permanent backdoor...

INTERPOL Operation Ramz Disrupts MENA Cybercrime Networks with 201 Arrests

INTERPOL has coordinated a first-of-its-kind cybercrime crackdown across the Middle East and North Africa MENA that led to 201 arrests and the identification of an additional 382 suspects. The initiative involved the efforts of 13 countries from the region, aiming to investigate and neutralize...

How to better protect your growing business in an AI-powered world

AI is rapidly reshaping how work gets done in companies and organizations. In celebrating National Small Business Month, we want to acknowledge the unique challenges that growing business leaders face as AI creates both opportunity and risk. They face constant tradeoffs between moving fast,...

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Pre-Stuxnet Fast16 Malware Tampered with Nuclear Weapons Simulations

A new analysis of the Lua-based fast16 malware has confirmed that it was a cyber sabotage tool designed to tamper with nuclear weapons testing simulations. According to Broadcom-owned Symantec and Carbon Black teams, the pre-Stuxnet tool was engineered to corrupt uranium-compression simulations...

Learning to Look Benign: Targeted Evasion of Malware Detectors Via API Import Injection

Machine learning-based malware detectors are widely deployed in antivirus and endpoint detection systems, yet their reliance on static features makes them vulnerable to adversarial manipulation. This paper investigates whether a malware sample can be intentionally misclassified as a specific beni...

Malicious Package

Overview color-style-utils is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid...

Malicious Package

Overview @deadcode09284814/axios-util is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a...

Malicious Package

Overview axois-utils is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organizatio...

Malicious Package

Overview chalk-tempalte is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that includes infostealer malware, one of which is a Shai-Hulud clone following the TeamPCP open source release, and one DDoS botnet package. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid...

CVE-2021-47977

WordPress Plugin Anti-Malware Security and Bruteforce Firewall 4.20.59 contains a directory traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by manipulating the file parameter. Attackers can send requests to the duplicatordownload action via admin-ajax.php wit...

CVE-2021-47977 WordPress Anti-Malware Security Bruteforce Firewall <= 4.20.72 Directory Traversal

WordPress Plugin Anti-Malware Security and Bruteforce Firewall 4.20.59 contains a directory traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by manipulating the file parameter. Attackers can send requests to the duplicatordownload action via admin-ajax.php wit...

EUVD-2021-34837

WordPress Plugin Anti-Malware Security and Bruteforce Firewall 4.20.59 contains a directory traversal vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by manipulating the file parameter. Attackers can send requests to the duplicatordownload action via admin-ajax.php wit...

CVE-2021-47977

CVE-2021-47977 affects the WordPress plugin Anti-Malware Security and Bruteforce Firewall 4.20.59. It describes a directory traversal vulnerability where unauthenticated attackers can read arbitrary files by manipulating the file parameter via the duplicator_download action in admin-ajax.php, usi...

PT-2026-41463

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Anti-Malware Security and Bruteforce Firewall version 4.20.59 Description A directory traversal issue allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by manipulating the file parameter. Attackers can send requests to the 'duplicator...