Help on the line: How a Microsoft Teams support call led to compromise

In our eighth Cyberattack Series report, Microsoft Incident Response—the Detection and Response Team DART—investigates a recent identity-first, human-operated intrusion that relied less on exploiting software vulnerabilities and more on deception and legitimate tools. After a customer reached out...

Dust Specter Targets Iraqi Officials with New SPLITDROP and GHOSTFORM Malware

A suspected Iran-nexus threat actor has been attributed to a campaign targeting government officials in Iraq by impersonating the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver a set of never-before-seen malware. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which observed the activity in January 2026, is tracking the...

CVE-2024-8378

The Safe SVG WordPress plugin before 2.2.6 has its sanitisation code is only running for paths that call wphandleupload, but not for example for code that uses wphandlesideload which is often used to upload attachments via raw POST data...

Google Starts Blocking Sideloading of Potentially Dangerous Android Apps in Singapore

Google has unveiled a new pilot program in Singapore that aims to prevent users from sideloading certain apps that abuse Android app permissions to read one-time passwords and gather sensitive data. "This enhanced fraud protection will analyze and automatically block the installation of apps that...

CVE-2023-4936

It is possible to sideload a compromised DLL during the installation at elevated privilege...

CVE-2023-21257

In updateSettingsInternalLI of InstallPackageHelper.java, there is a possible way to sideload an app in the work profile due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for...

Design/Logic Flaw

In updateSettingsInternalLI of InstallPackageHelper.java, there is a possible way to sideload an app in the work profile due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for...

CVE-2023-21257

In updateSettingsInternalLI of InstallPackageHelper.java, there is a possible way to sideload an app in the work profile due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for...

CVE-2023-21257

In updateSettingsInternalLI of InstallPackageHelper.java, there is a possible way to sideload an app in the work profile due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for...

Investigating the PlugX Trojan Disguised as a Legitimate Windows Debugger Tool

Trend Micro’s Managed Extended Detection and Response MxDR team discovered that a file called x32dbg.exe was used to sideload a malicious DLL we identified as a variant of PlugX...

McAfee Agent < 5.7.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities (SB10369)

The version of McAfee Agent, formerly McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator ePO Agent, installed on the remote host is prior to 5.7.4. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities: - Improper access control vulnerability in the repair process for McAfee Agent for Windows prior to 5.7.4 could...

Cinobi Banking Trojan Targets Cryptocurrency Exchange Users via Malvertising

We found a new social engineering-based malvertising campaign targeting Japan that delivered a malicious application. The malicious application abused sideloading vulnerabilities to load and start the Cinobi banking trojan...

Windows Store and Sideload apps don't work after reboot when User Layers enabled

A Windows Store or local Sideload app or some other AppX package installs and works fine immediately after installation, when User Layers are enabled in App Layering. However, after a restart, the program fails to start, or flashes a window and immediately terminates...

McAfee True Key DLL Sideload Vulnerability

McAfee True Key is an authentication application from the American company McAfee. The program supports features such as facial information recognition and fingerprint recognition. A security vulnerability exists in McAfee True Key versions prior to 4.20.110, which stems from the program's failur...

OnePlus OTA One/X Crossover Vulnerability(CVE-2017-8851)

Products OnePlus X OnePlus One Vulnerable Version All OnePlus OxygenOS & HydrogenOS OTAs Technical Details Due to lenient updater-script on the OnePlus One & X’s OTA images see below, the fact both products use the same OTA verification keys, and the fact both products share the same...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered on OnePlus One, X, 2, 3, and 3T devices. OxygenOS and HydrogenOS are vulnerable to downgrade attacks. This is due to a lenient 'updater-script' in OTAs that does not check that the current version is lower than or equal to the given image's. Downgrades can occur even on...

Code injection

An issue was discovered on OnePlus One, X, 2, 3, and 3T devices. Due to a lenient updater-script in the OnePlus OTA images, and the fact that both ROMs use the same OTA verification keys, attackers can install HydrogenOS over OxygenOS and vice versa, even on locked bootloaders, which allows for...

Spoofing

An issue was discovered on OnePlus One and X devices. Due to a lenient updater-script on the OnePlus One and X OTA images, the fact that both products use the same OTA verification keys, and the fact that both products share the same 'ro.build.product' system property, attackers can install OTAs ...

CVE-2017-5948

An issue was discovered on OnePlus One, X, 2, 3, and 3T devices. OxygenOS and HydrogenOS are vulnerable to downgrade attacks. This is due to a lenient 'updater-script' in OTAs that does not check that the current version is lower than or equal to the given image's. Downgrades can occur even on...

CVE-2017-5948

CVE-2017-5948 is a downgrade-attack vulnerability in OnePlus OxygenOS and HydrogenOS OTA updates. The root cause is a lenient updater-script in OTAs for OnePlus One, X, 2, 3, and 3T that does not enforce that the current version is