Malicious Package

Overview cookie-validate is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code associated with a social engineering campaign called "Contagious Interview." The attackers target developers through fake job interviews or coding test assignments that require the installation of this package...

Malicious Package

Overview tailwindcss-setfontstyle is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code associated with a social engineering campaign called "Contagious Interview." The attackers target developers through fake job interviews or coding test assignments that require the installation of this...

MASCOT: Analyzing Malware Evolution through a Well-Curated Source Code Dataset

In recent years, the explosion of malware and extensive code reuse have formed complex evolutionary connections among malware specimens. The rapid pace of development makes it challenging for existing studies to characterize recent evolutionary trends. In addition, intuitive tools to untangle the...

North Korean Hackers Deploy 197 npm Packages to Spread Updated OtterCookie Malware

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have continued to flood the npm registry with 197 more malicious packages since last month. According to Socket, these packages have been downloaded over 31,000 times, and are designed to deliver a variant of OtterCookie that...

CVE-2025-66386

app/Model/EventReport.php in MISP before 2.5.27 allows path traversal in view picture for a site-admin...

Clustering Malware at Scale: A First Full-Benchmark Study

Recent years have shown that malware attacks still happen with high frequency. Malware experts seek to categorize and classify incoming samples to confirm their trustworthiness or prove their maliciousness. One of the ways in which groups of malware samples can be identified is through malware...

MISP 安全漏洞

MISP is an open source software solution from MISP Open Source. The product is used to collect, store, distribute, and share cybersecurity metrics and has features such as threat cybersecurity event analysis and malware analysis. A security vulnerability exists in MISP versions prior to 2.5.24 th...

Malicious code in discord-selfsbotsx (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 b56aa48c0654abd06a9d624b8c1b5ab4ce170399068d97b994bb4d63635bf18a Once run, package downloads and installs an infostealer --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign:...

ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Malware, Voice Bot Flaws, Crypto Laundering, IoT Attacks — and 20 More Stories

Hackers have been busy again this week. From fake voice calls and AI-powered malware to huge money-laundering busts and new scams, there's a lot happening in the cyber world. Criminals are getting creative — using smart tricks to steal data, sound real, and hide in plain sight. But they're not th...

Department-Specific Security Awareness Campaigns: A Cross-Organizational Study of HR and Accounting

Many cyberattacks succeed because they exploit flaws at the human level. To address this problem, organizations rely on security awareness programs, which aim to make employees more resilient against social engineering. While some works have suggested that such programs should account for...

Microsoft Teams Flaw in Guest Chat Exposes Users to Malware Attacks

New research from Ontinue exposes a major security flaw in Microsoft Teams B2B Guest Access. Learn how attackers bypass all Defender for Office 365 protections with a single invite...

Fake LinkedIn jobs trick Mac users into downloading Flexible Ferret malware

Researchers have discovered a new attack targeting Mac users. It lures them to a fake job website, then tricks them into downloading malware via a bogus software update. The attackers pose as recruiters and contact people via LinkedIn, encouraging them to apply for a role. As part of the...

When your AI Assistant Becomes the Attacker’s Command-and-Control

Earlier this month, Microsoft uncovered SesameOp, a new backdoor malware that abuses the OpenAI Assistants API as a covert command-and-control C2 channel. The discovery has drawn significant attention within the cybersecurity community. Security teams can no longer focus solely on endpoint malwar...

Fake Battlefield 6 Downloads Are Spreading Malware, Stealing Player Data

Bitdefender Labs found fake Battlefield 6 pirated copies and trainers spreading aggressive malware, C2 agents, and infostealers, designed to steal player data and crypto-wallets...

RomCom Uses SocGholish Fake Update Attacks to Deliver Mythic Agent Malware

The threat actors behind a malware family known as RomCom targeted a U.S.-based civil engineering company via a JavaScript loader dubbed SocGholish to deliver the Mythic Agent. "This is the first time that a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed by SocGholish," Arctic Wolf Labs...

EUVD-2025-199701

Malicious code in atlassian-praz PyPI...

MAL-2025-191473 Malicious code in chai-jsons (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 4e738779b172365174b2a7765325ea0405726a7ce192ddd47025b964d5e134ec The package chai-jsons was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware 84b31461976f0984f6a6828d87f0cda7b1e3323084608a91ca02bedcee04357b Any...

EUVD-2025-199689

Malicious code in @lokeswari-satyanarayanan/rn-zustand-expo-template npm...

New ClickFix wave infects users with hidden malware in images and fake Windows updates

Several researchers have flagged a new development in the ongoing ClickFix campaign: Attackers are now mimicking a Windows update screen to trick people into running malware. ClickFix campaigns use convincing lures, historically “Human Verification” screens, and now a fake “Windows Update” splash...

JackFix Uses Fake Windows Update Pop-Ups on Adult Sites to Deliver Multiple Stealers

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that's leveraging a combination of ClickFix lures and fake adult websites to deceive users into running malicious commands under the guise of a "critical" Windows security update. "Campaign leverages fake adult websites xHamster,...