Fake Employee Reports Spread Guloader and Remcos RAT Malware

Scammers are using fake October 2025 performance reviews to trick staff into installing Guloader and Remcos RAT malware. Learn how to identify this threat and protect your personal data from remote hackers...

Analyzing a Multi-Stage AsyncRAT Campaign via Managed Detection and Response

Threat actors exploited Cloudflare's free-tier infrastructure and legitimate Python environments to deploy the AsyncRAT remote access trojan, demonstrating advanced evasion techniques that abuse trusted cloud services for malicious operations...

CVE-2023-31468

An issue was discovered in Inosoft VisiWin 7 through 2022-2.1 Runtime RT7.3 RC3 20221209.5. The "%PROGRAMFILESX86%\INOSOFT GmbH" folder has weak permissions for Everyone, allowing an attacker to insert a Trojan horse file that runs as SYSTEM. 2024-1 is a fixed version...

CVE-2018-18654

Crossroads 2.81 does not properly handle the /tmp directory during a build of xr. A local attacker can first create a world-writable subdirectory in a certain location under the /tmp directory, wait until a user process copies xr there, and then replace the entire contents of this subdirectory to...

CVE-2021-33393

lfs/backup in IPFire 2.25-core155 does not ensure that /var/ipfire/backup/bin/backup.pl is owned by the root account. It might be owned by an unprivileged account, which could potentially be used to install a Trojan horse backup.pl script that is later executed by root. Similar problems with the...

CVE-2019-18895

Scanguard through 2019-11-12 on Windows has Insecure Permissions for the installation directory, leading to privilege escalation via a Trojan horse executable file...

CVE-2019-18822

A privilege escalation vulnerability in ZOOM Call Recording 6.3.1 allows its user account i.e., the account under which the program runs - by default, the callrec account to elevate privileges to root by abusing the [email protected]. The [email protected] starts the /opt/callrec/bin/rs binar...

CVE-2019-20384

Gentoo Portage through 2.3.84 allows local users to place a Trojan horse plugin in the /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins directory by leveraging access to the nagios user account, because this directory is writable in between a call to emake and a call to fowners...

Astaroth Banking Trojan Targets Brazilians via WhatsApp Messages

Researchers at Acronis have discovered a new campaign called Boto Cor-de-Rosa, where the Astaroth banking malware spreads like a worm through WhatsApp Web to steal contact lists and banking credentials...

WhatsApp Worm Spreads Astaroth Banking Trojan Across Brazil via Contact Auto-Messaging

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that uses WhatsApp as a distribution vector for a Windows banking trojan called Astaroth in attacks targeting Brazil. The campaign has been codenamed Boto Cor-de-Rosa by Acronis Threat Research Unit. "The malware retrieves the...

Researchers Uncover NodeCordRAT Hidden in npm Bitcoin-Themed Packages

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver a previously undocumented malware called NodeCordRAT. The names of the packages, all of which were taken down as of November 2025, are listed below. They were uploaded by a user named "wenmoonx."...

Black Cat Behind SEO Poisoning Malware Campaign Targeting Popular Software Searches

A cybercrime gang known as Black Cat has been attributed to a search engine optimization SEO poisoning campaign that employs fraudulent sites advertising popular software to trick users into downloading a backdoor capable of stealing sensitive data. According to a report published by the National...

CVE-1999-0661

A system is running a version of software that was replaced with a Trojan Horse at one of its distribution points, such as 1 TCP Wrappers 7.6, 2 util-linux 2.9g, 3 wuarchive ftpd wuftpd 2.2 and 2.1f, 4 IRC client ircII ircII 2.2.9, 5 OpenSSH 3.4p1, or 6 Sendmail 8.12.6...

CVE-1999-0572

.reg files are associated with the Windows NT registry editor regedit, making the registry susceptible to Trojan Horse attacks...

CVE-2019-7656

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Wowza Streaming Engine 4.8.0 and earlier allows any unprivileged Linux user to escalate privileges to root. The installer sets too relaxed permissions on /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/bin/ core program files. By injecting a payload into one of those files...

CVE-2019-16406

Centreon Web 19.04.4 has weak permissions within the OVA aka VMware virtual machine and OVF aka VirtualBox virtual machine files, allowing attackers to gain privileges via a Trojan horse Centreon-autodisco executable file that is launched by cron...

Malicious code in pycolorom (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 6babcee81c12759b66be4c0a8ba33c3f0272b052a47fda31227f4a6087ba8e5b The package, distinguished as a speed testing or typosquatted Telegram library, contains a Telegram bot to perform remote control of the computer --- Category:...

Fake Booking Emails Redirect Hotel Staff to Fake BSoD Pages Delivering DCRat

--- Source: Securonix Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed PHALTBLYX that has leveraged ClickFix-style lures to display fixes for fake blue screen of death BSoD errors in attacks targeting the European hospitality sector. The end goal of the multi-stage campai...

MAL-2026-42 Malicious code in pyrogrom (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 ef643052c84683fba662eaded2786ba6fa993e69224608070ad949d4f3d0c3e4 The package, distinguished as a speed testing or typosquatted Telegram library, contains a Telegram bot to perform remote control of the computer --- Category:...

Transparent Tribe Launches New RAT Attacks Against Indian Government and Academia

The threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting Indian governmental, academic, and strategic entities with a remote access trojan RAT that grants them persistent control over compromised hosts. "The campaign employs deceptive delivery techniques...