Technical Deep Dive: The Monero Mining Campaign

Technical Deep Dive: The Monero Mining Campaign By Aswath A · February 17, 2026 Executive summary In the contemporary threat landscape, while ransomware grabs headlines with high-impact disruptions, cryptojacking operations have quietly evolved into sophisticated, persistent threats. This report...

SolarWinds Web Help Desk Exploited for RCE in Multi-Stage Attacks on Exposed Servers

Microsoft has revealed that it observed a multi‑stage intrusion that involved the threat actors exploiting internet‑exposed SolarWinds Web Help Desk WHD instances to obtain initial access and move laterally across the organization's network to other high-value assets. That said, the Microsoft...

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...

GHSA-4F84-67CV-QRV3 A single post-release of dydx-v4-client contained obfuscated multi-stage loader

A PyPI user account compromised by an attacker and was able to upload a malicious version 1.1.5.post1 of the dydx-v4-client package. This version contains a highly obfuscated multi-stage loader that ultimately executes malicious code on the host system. While the final payload is not visible...

A single post-release of dydx-v4-client contained obfuscated multi-stage loader

A PyPI user account compromised by an attacker and was able to upload a malicious version 1.1.5.post1 of the dydx-v4-client package. This version contains a highly obfuscated multi-stage loader that ultimately executes malicious code on the host system. While the final payload is not visible...

CVE-2025-68643

Axigen Mail Server before 10.5.57 allows stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS in the handling of the timeFormat account preference parameter. Attackers can exploit this by deploying a multi-stage attack. In the first stage, a malicious JavaScript payload is injected into the timeFormat preference by...

CVE-2025-68643

Axigen Mail Server before 10.5.57 allows stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS in the handling of the timeFormat account preference parameter. Attackers can exploit this by deploying a multi-stage attack. In the first stage, a malicious JavaScript payload is injected into the timeFormat preference by...

EUVD-2025-206860

Axigen Mail Server before 10.5.57 allows stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS in the handling of the timeFormat account preference parameter. Attackers can exploit this by deploying a multi-stage attack. In the first stage, a malicious JavaScript payload is injected into the timeFormat preference by...

CVE-2025-68643

Axigen Mail Server before 10.5.57 allows stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS in the handling of the timeFormat account preference parameter. Attackers can exploit this by deploying a multi-stage attack. In the first stage, a malicious JavaScript payload is injected into the timeFormat preference by...

CVE-2025-68643

Axigen Mail Server prior to 10.5.57 is affected by a stored XSS in the timeFormat account preference. The vulnerability allows an attacker to inject a malicious JavaScript payload into timeFormat, which is later loaded from storage and inserted into the DOM when the WebMail interface is accessed,...

CVE-2025-68643

Axigen Mail Server before 10.5.57 allows stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS in the handling of the timeFormat account preference parameter. Attackers can exploit this by deploying a multi-stage attack. In the first stage, a malicious JavaScript payload is injected into the timeFormat preference by...

CVE-2025-68643

Axigen Mail Server before 10.5.57 allows stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS in the handling of the timeFormat account preference parameter. Attackers can exploit this by deploying a multi-stage attack. In the first stage, a malicious JavaScript payload is injected into the timeFormat preference by...

eScan Antivirus Update Servers Compromised to Deliver Multi-Stage Malware

The update infrastructure for eScan antivirus, a security solution developed by Indian cybersecurity company MicroWorld Technologies, has been compromised by unknown attackers to deliver a persistent downloader to enterprise and consumer systems. "Malicious updates were distributed through eScan'...

Microsoft Flags Multi-Stage AitM Phishing and BEC Attacks Targeting Energy Firms

Microsoft has warned of a multi‑stage adversary‑in‑the‑middle AitM phishing and business email compromise BEC campaign targeting multiple organizations in the energy sector. "The campaign abused SharePoint file‑sharing services to deliver phishing payloads and relied on inbox rule creation to...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Msi Afterburner

VortexCry-Ransomware VortexCry is an advanced ransomware that...

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...

MAL-2026-6 Malicious code in ziphash (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 e9a36a54bad10e0f086740a84fd0a837dd4bf1cc9c3c0707648af4bb3855a03e During initialization of the archive-support class, the package starts code from another file and downloads multi-stage malware --- Category: MALICIOUS - The...

Malicious code in cryptozip (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 157ea6b1f1c3d4ed5564c494db770e9156f3e269f12cefec6e4270085a762f26 During initialization of the archive-support class, the package starts code from another file and downloads multi-stage malware --- Category: MALICIOUS - The...

MAL-2025-192956 Malicious code in cryptozip (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 157ea6b1f1c3d4ed5564c494db770e9156f3e269f12cefec6e4270085a762f26 During initialization of the archive-support class, the package starts code from another file and downloads multi-stage malware --- Category: MALICIOUS - The...

MAL-2025-192948 Malicious code in extrazip (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 f58777710463b043a0724ad1d7999807501b56667a10eced314fd036e9303fdf During initialization of the archive-support class, the package starts code from another file and downloads multi-stage malware --- Category: MALICIOUS - The...