Android Trojan 'Fantasy Hub' Malware Service Turns Telegram Into a Hub for Hackers

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android remote access trojan RAT called Fantasy Hub that's sold on Russian-speaking Telegram channels under a Malware-as-a-Service MaaS model. According to its seller, the malware enables device control and espionage, allowing threat actor...

MAL-2025-63618 Malicious code in jaja-esdoger98-sluey (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 94a589ddc3c0e3ed88900bbb93546b36b32336ecb1913910f23fca796722ce40 This package appears to be part of the tea.xyz token reward campaign that flooded npm. These packages typically contain autopublish scripts auto.js,...

Automated Hardware Trojan Insertion in Industrial-Scale Designs

Industrial Systems-on-Chips SoCs often comprise hundreds of thousands to millions of nets and millions to tens of millions of connectivity edges, making empirical evaluation of hardware-Trojan HT detectors on realistic designs both necessary and difficult. Public benchmarks remain significantly...

Konni Hackers Turn Google's Find Hub into a Remote Data-Wiping Weapon

The North Korea-affiliated threat actor known as Konni aka Earth Imp, Opal Sleet, Osmium, TA406, and Vedalia has been attributed to a new set of attacks targeting both Android and Windows devices for data theft and remote control. "Attackers impersonated psychological counselors and North Korean...

Fantasy Hub is spyware for rent—complete with fake app kits and support

Researchers at Zimperium identified Fantasy Hub, a new Android spyware developed and sold as a subscription on Russian-language cybercrime forums. Malware-as-a-Service MaaS means cybercriminals rent out to malware to other criminals, complete with the infrastructure necessary to harvest and abuse...

Malicious VSX Extension "SleepyDuck" Uses Ethereum to Keep Its Command Server Alive

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious extension in the Open VSX registry that harbors a remote access trojan called SleepyDuck. According to Secure Annex's John Tuckner, the extension in question, juan-bianco.solidity-vlang version 0.0.7, was first published on October 31, 2025, ...

Researchers Uncover BankBot-YNRK and DeliveryRAT Android Trojans Stealing Financial Data

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on two different Android trojans calledBankBot-YNRK and DeliveryRAT that are capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised devices. According to CYFIRMA, which analyzed three different samples of BankBot-YNRK, the malware incorporates features to...

MAL-2025-191874 Malicious code in speed-testing-nt (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 dcfc1b92868e7f4eef0f4c0e901418a557089fe5269a1e4ef07725d397cddbb3 The package, distinguished as a speed testing or typosquatted Telegram library, contains a Telegram bot to perform remote control of the computer --- Category:...

New Android Trojan 'Herodotus' Outsmarts Anti-Fraud Systems by Typing Like a Human

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Herodotus that has been observed in active campaigns targeting Italy and Brazil to conduct device takeover DTO attacks. "Herodotus is designed to perform device takeover while making first attempts to mimic...

Hammering the Diagnosis: Rowhammer-Induced Stealthy Trojan Attacks on ViT-Based Medical Imaging

Vision Transformers ViTs have emerged as powerful architectures in medical image analysis, excelling in tasks such as disease detection, segmentation, and classification. However, their reliance on large, attention-driven models makes them vulnerable to hardware-level attacks. In this paper, we...

SAND: A Self-Supervised and Adaptive NAS-Driven Framework for Hardware Trojan Detection

The globalized semiconductor supply chain has made Hardware Trojans HT a significant security threat to embedded systems, necessitating the design of efficient and adaptable detection mechanisms. Despite promising machine learning-based HT detection techniques in the literature, they suffer from ...

The Trojan Example: Jailbreaking LLMs through Template Filling and Unsafety Reasoning

Large Language Models LLMs have advanced rapidly and now encode extensive world knowledge. Despite safety fine-tuning, however, they remain susceptible to adversarial prompts that elicit harmful content. Existing jailbreak techniques fall into two categories: white-box methods e.g., gradient-base...

PhantomCaptcha RAT Attack Targets Aid Groups Supporting Ukraine

SentinelLABS’ research reveals PhantomCaptcha, a highly coordinated, one-day cyber operation on Oct 8, 2025, targeting the International Red Cross, UNICEF, and Ukraine government groups using fake emails and a Remote Access Trojan RAT linked to Russian infrastructure...

An Experimental Study of Trojan Vulnerabilities in UAV Autonomous Landing

This study investigates the vulnerabilities of autonomous navigation and landing systems in Urban Air Mobility UAM vehicles. Specifically, it focuses on Trojan attacks that target deep learning models, such as Convolutional Neural Networks CNNs. Trojan attacks work by embedding covert triggers...

Ukraine Aid Groups Targeted Through Fake Zoom Meetings and Weaponized PDF Files

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a coordinated spear-phishing campaign dubbed PhantomCaptcha targeting organizations associated with Ukraine's war relief efforts to deliver a remote access trojan that uses a WebSocket for command-and-control C2. The activity, which took place o...

HAMLOCK: HArdware-Model LOgically Combined AttacK

The growing use of third-party hardware accelerators e.g., FPGAs, ASICs for deep neural networks DNNs introduces new security vulnerabilities. Conventional model-level backdoor attacks, which only poison a model's weights to misclassify inputs with a specific trigger, are often detectable because...

BreakFun: Jailbreaking LLMs Via Schema Exploitation

The proficiency of Large Language Models LLMs in processing structured data and adhering to syntactic rules is a capability that drives their widespread adoption but also makes them paradoxically vulnerable. In this paper, we investigate this vulnerability through BreakFun, a jailbreak methodolog...

Maverick: a new banking Trojan abusing WhatsApp in a mass-scale distribution

A malware campaign was recently detected in Brazil, distributing a malicious LNK file using WhatsApp. It targets mainly Brazilians and uses Portuguese-named URLs. To evade detection, the command-and-control C2 server verifies each download to ensure it originates from the malware itself. The whol...

Astaroth Trojan Uses GitHub Images to Stay Active After Takedowns

Astaroth banking trojan has evolved to use GitHub and steganography for resilient C2, hiding its vital commands in images. Learn how this sophisticated malware employs fileless techniques to steal banking and crypto credentials from users across Latin America...

Astaroth Banking Trojan Abuses GitHub to Remain Operational After Takedowns

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that delivers the Astaroth banking trojan that employs GitHub as a backbone for its operations to stay resilient in the face of infrastructure takedowns. "Instead of relying solely on traditional command-and-control C2 servers that...