Dissecting Sapphire Sleet’s macOS intrusion from lure to compromise

In this article 1. Sapphire Sleet’s campaign lifecycle 2. Defending against Sapphire Sleet intrusion activity 3. Microsoft Defender detection and hunting guidance 4. Indicators of compromise Executive summary Microsoft Threat Intelligence uncovered a macOS‑focused cyber campaign by the North Kore...

Obsidian Plugin Abuse Delivers PHANTOMPULSE RAT in Targeted Finance, Crypto Attacks

A "novel" social engineering campaign has been observed abusing Obsidian, a cross-platform note-taking application, as an initial access vector to distribute a previously undocumented Windows remote access trojan called PHANTOMPULSE in attacks targeting individuals in the financial and...

CVE-2026-40505

MuPDF before 1.27 contains an ANSI injection vulnerability in mutool that allows attackers to inject arbitrary ANSI escape sequences through crafted PDF metadata fields. Attackers can embed malicious ANSI escape codes in PDF metadata that are passed unsanitized to terminal output when running...

CVE-2026-40505

MuPDF before 1.27 contains an ANSI injection vulnerability in mutool that allows attackers to inject arbitrary ANSI escape sequences through crafted PDF metadata fields. Attackers can embed malicious ANSI escape codes in PDF metadata that are passed unsanitized to terminal output when running...

CVE-2026-40505

MuPDF before 1.27 contains an ANSI injection vulnerability in mutool that allows attackers to inject arbitrary ANSI escape sequences through crafted PDF metadata fields. Attackers can embed malicious ANSI escape codes in PDF metadata that are passed unsanitized to terminal output when running...

ConGISATA: A Framework for Continuous Gamified Information Security Awareness Training and Assessment

The incidence of cybersecurity attacks utilizing social engineering techniques has increased. Such attacks exploit the fact that in every secure system, there is at least one individual with the means to access sensitive information. Since it is easier to deceive a person than it is to bypass the...

AI clickbait can turn your notifications into a scam feed

Pushpaganda is the name researchers have given to an AI-assisted ad fraud, social engineering, and scareware operation targeting mobile users. For most people, Pushpaganda starts as something that looks completely normal. For example, a recommended article in your Google Discover feed the...

North Korea's APT37 Uses Facebook Social Engineering to Deliver RokRAT Malware

The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 aka ScarCruft has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building exercise into a delivery...

A Synthetic Conversational Smishing Dataset for Social Engineering Detection

Smishing SMS phishing has become a serious cybersecurity threat, especially for elderly and cyber-unaware individuals, causing financial loss and undermining user trust. Although prior work has focused on detecting smishing at the level of individual messages, real-world attackers often rely on...

UNC6783 Hackers Use Fake Okta Pages in Corporate Breach Campaign

UNC6783 hackers and extortionists impersonate support staff, using fake Okta login pages and social engineering to access corporate systems and steal sensitive data...

GPL Odorizers GPL750

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a low privileged remote attacker to manipulate register values, which would result in too much or too little odorant being injected into a gas line. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to...

EUVD-2026-19994

The Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via the formids parameter in the gformgetconfig AJAX action in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.30. This is due to the GFCommon::sendjson method outputting JSON-encoded data wrapped in HTML comment...

North Korean Hackers Pose as Trading Firm to Steal $285M from Drift

North Korean hackers UNC4736 posed as a trading firm for six months to infiltrate Drift Protocol, using social engineering tactics to steal $285M without suspicion...

PT-2026-30737

WeGIA is a Web manager for charitable institutions. Prior to 3.6.9, an Open Redirect vulnerability was identified in the /WeGIA/controle/control.php endpoint of the WeGIA application, specifically through the nextPage parameter when combined with metodo=listarTodos and nomeClasse=EstoqueControle...

PT-2026-30740

WeGIA is a Web manager for charitable institutions. Prior to 3.6.9, an Open Redirect vulnerability was identified in the /WeGIA/controle/control.php endpoint of the WeGIA application, specifically through the nextPage parameter when combined with metodo=listarId and nomeClasse=IentradaControle. T...

$285 Million Drift Hack Traced to Six-Month DPRK Social Engineering Operation

Drift has revealed that the April 1, 2026, attack that led to the theft of $285 million was the culmination of a months-long targeted and meticulously planned social engineering operation undertaken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK that began in the fall of 2025. The Solana-based...

UNC1069 Social Engineering of Axios Maintainer Led to npm Supply Chain Attack

The maintainer of the Axios npm package has confirmed that the supply chain compromise was the result of a highly-targeted social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korean threat actors tracked as UNC1069. Maintainer Jason Saayman said the attackers tailored their social engineering effor...

Drift Loses $285 Million in Durable Nonce Social Engineering Attack Linked to DPRK

Solana-based decentralized exchange Drift has confirmed that attackers drained about $285 million from the platform during a security incident that took place on April 1, 2026. "Earlier today, a malicious actor gained unauthorized access to Drift Protocol through a novel attack involving durable...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-sync is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...

Malicious Package

Overview strapi-plugin-health is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code that conceals a command-and-control agent and credential harvester. A malicious actor published a coordinated campaign of thirty-six packages disguised as community Strapi CMS plugins. These packages aren't...