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Dynamic Causal Attack Graph Based Cyber-Security Risk Assessment Framework for CTCS System
Protecting the security of the train control system is a critical issue to ensure the safe and reliable operation of high-speed trains. Scientific modeling and analysis for the security risk is a promising way to guarantee system security. However, the representation and assessment of the...
Watch Out for Salty2FA: New Phishing Kit Targeting US and EU Enterprises
Phishing-as-a-Service PhaaS platforms keep evolving, giving attackers faster and cheaper ways to break into corporate accounts. Now, researchers at ANY.RUN has uncovered a new entrant: Salty2FA , a phishing kit designed to bypass multiple two-factor authentication methods and slip past traditiona...
ShadowCaptcha Exploits WordPress Sites to Spread Ransomware, Info Stealers, and Crypto Miners
A new large-scale campaign has been observed exploiting over 100 compromised WordPress sites to direct site visitors to fake CAPTCHA verification pages that employ the ClickFix social engineering tactic to deliver information stealers, ransomware, and cryptocurrency miners. The large-scale...
Cybercriminals Deploy CORNFLAKE.V3 Backdoor via ClickFix Tactic and Fake CAPTCHA Pages
Threat actors have been observed leveraging the deceptive social engineering tactic known as ClickFix to deploy a versatile backdoor codenamed CORNFLAKE.V3. Google-owned Mandiant described the activity, which it tracks as UNC5518, as part of an access-as-a-service scheme that employs fake CAPTCHA...
New PS1Bot Malware Campaign Uses Malvertising to Deploy Multi-Stage In-Memory Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malvertising campaign that's designed to infect victims with a multi-stage malware framework called PS1Bot. "PS1Bot features a modular design, with several modules delivered used to perform a variety of malicious activities on infected systems,...
Malvertising campaign leads to PS1Bot, a multi-stage malware framework
Cisco Talos has observed an ongoing malware campaign that seeks to infect victims with a multi-stage malware framework, implemented in PowerShell and C, which we are referring to as "PS1Bot." PS1Bot features a modular design, with several modules delivered used to perform a variety of malicious...
LMDG: Advancing Lateral Movement Detection through High-Fidelity Dataset Generation
Lateral Movement LM attacks continue to pose a significant threat to enterprise security, enabling adversaries to stealthily compromise critical assets. However, the development and evaluation of LM detection systems are impeded by the absence of realistic, well-labeled datasets. To address this...
SAP NetWeaver Vulnerability Used in Auto-Color Malware Attack on US Firm
Darktrace uncovers the first exploit of a critical SAP NetWeaver vulnerability CVE-2025-31324 to deploy Auto-Color backdoor malware. Learn how this evasive Linux RAT targets systems for remote code execution and how AI-powered defence thwarts multi-stage attacks...
Multi-Stage Prompt Inference Attacks on Enterprise LLM Systems
Large Language Models LLMs deployed in enterprise settings e.g., as Microsoft 365 Copilot face novel security challenges. One critical threat is prompt inference attacks: adversaries chain together seemingly benign prompts to gradually extract confidential data. In this paper, we present a...
Scattered Spider: Rapid7 Insights, Observations, and Recommendations
Overview of Scattered Spider and recent activity Scattered Spider also tracked as UNC3944, Scatter Swine, Muddled Libra, among other aliases is a financially motivated cybercriminal group active since at least May 2022. The group is notorious for targeting large enterprises — especially...
Entangled Threats: a Unified Kill Chain Model for Quantum Machine Learning Security
Quantum Machine Learning QML systems inherit vulnerabilities from classical machine learning while introducing new attack surfaces rooted in the physical and algorithmic layers of quantum computing. Despite a growing body of research on individual attack vectors - ranging from adversarial poisoni...
Water Curse Employs 76 GitHub Accounts to Deliver Multi-Stage Malware Campaign
Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a previously unknown threat actor known as Water Curse that relies on weaponized GitHub repositories to deliver multi-stage malware. "The malware enables data exfiltration including credentials, browser data, and session tokens, remote access, and long-term...
MAL-2025-191728 Malicious code in fernets (PyPI)
--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 95fc75ed8a4cfcccc988b2241772effbc15eb3700a6a96f3183981a1b4c7fba7 If imported, the module starts a multi-stage infostealer, exfiltrating browser data as well as crypto wallets, and also attempts to monitor clipboard looking f...
Malicious code in fernets (PyPI)
--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 95fc75ed8a4cfcccc988b2241772effbc15eb3700a6a96f3183981a1b4c7fba7 If imported, the module starts a multi-stage infostealer, exfiltrating browser data as well as crypto wallets, and also attempts to monitor clipboard looking f...
Transaction Fee Mechanism Design for Leaderless Blockchain Protocols
We initiate the study of transaction fee mechanism design for blockchain protocols in which multiple block producers contribute to the production of each block. Our contributions include: - We propose an extensive-form multi-stage game model to reason about the game theory of multi-proposer...
Hackers Use Fake VPN and Browser NSIS Installers to Deliver Winos 4.0 Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a malware campaign that uses fake software installers masquerading as popular tools like LetsVPN and QQ Browser to deliver the Winos 4.0 framework. The campaign, first detected by Rapid7 in February 2025, involves the use of a multi-stage, memory-resident...
CVE-2024-50601
Persistent and reflected XSS vulnerabilities in the themeMode cookie and h URL parameter of Axigen Mail Server up to version 10.5.28 allow attackers to execute arbitrary Javascript. Exploitation could lead to session hijacking, data leakage, and further exploitation via a multi-stage attack. Fixe...
Multi-Stage Malware Attack Uses .JSE and PowerShell to Deploy Agent Tesla and XLoader
A new multi-stage attack has been observed delivering malware families like Agent Tesla variants, Remcos RAT, and XLoader. "Attackers increasingly rely on such complex delivery mechanisms to evade detection, bypass traditional sandboxes, and ensure successful payload delivery and execution," Palo...
Multi-Stage Retrieval for Operational Technology Cybersecurity Compliance Using Large Language Models: a Railway Casestudy
Operational Technology Cybersecurity OTCS continues to be a dominant challenge for critical infrastructure such as railways. As these systems become increasingly vulnerable to malicious attacks due to digitalization, effective documentation and compliance processes are essential to protect these...