PureRAT: A Multi-Stage, Fileless RAT Utilizing Image Steganography and Process Hollowing

PureRAT: A Multi-Stage, Fileless RAT Utilizing Image Steganography and Process Hollowing By Prashanth A N and Mallikarjun Wali · April 20, 2026 PureRAT is an advanced remote access trojan RAT characterized by its complex infection stages. The intrusion sequence is initiated by a malicious .LNK fi...

HarmChip: Evaluating Hardware Security Centric LLM Safety Via Jailbreak Benchmarking

The integration of large language models LLMs into electronic design automation EDA workflows has introduced powerful capabilities for RTL generation, verification, and design optimization, but also raises critical security concerns. Malicious LLM outputs in this domain pose hardware-level threat...

Vaadin Flow and the axios npm supply-chain compromise

On March 31, 2026, compromised versions of the popular axios HTTP client library 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 were published to NPM via a hijacked maintainer account. The malicious versions injected [email protected], a cross-platform RAT dropper that connected to a command-and-control server. The...

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...

Malicious code in nj-logger (npm)

nj-logger is a malicious npm package that when imported in file dist/logger/telemetry.js downloads a trojan for Windows only, W64.AIDetectMalware / Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen from http://178.128.88.40:8080/download/svc to path nodemodules/.cache/nj-logger/nj-transport-win32-x64.node and execute...

MAL-2026-2907 Malicious code in nj-logger (npm)

nj-logger is a malicious npm package that when imported in file dist/logger/telemetry.js downloads a trojan for Windows only, W64.AIDetectMalware / Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen from http://178.128.88.40:8080/download/svc to path nodemodules/.cache/nj-logger/nj-transport-win32-x64.node and execute...

MAL-2026-2694 Malicious code in cpu-optimizers (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 f82b75da107c50f4d2f3cf5587e7db58a0dc91b77f8511226ff9219623dc145a Clones of legitimate libraries with malicious modifications intended to download malicious remote code. The remote script allows executing arbitrary files...

MAL-2026-2665 Malicious code in hive-os-settings (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 27052e523741d1d8f29aaadcd3735affbdeaa919d6fad2d0ff01ce878d6e5637 Clones of legitimate libraries with malicious modifications intended to download malicious remote code. The remote script allows executing arbitrary files...

Mirax Android RAT Turns Devices into SOCKS5 Proxies, Reaching 220,000 via Meta Ads

A nascent Android remote access trojan called Mirax has been observed actively targeting Spanish-speaking countries, with campaigns reaching more than 220,000 accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads through advertisements on Meta. "Mirax integrates advanced Remote Access Trojan RA...

CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads

Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID "cpuid.com", a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident...

Android Banking Trojan Linked to Cambodia Scam Compounds Hits 21 Countries

Android banking trojan linked to Cambodia scam compounds uses forced labour to target users in 21 countries, bypassing security to steal funds...

The long road to your crypto: ClipBanker and its marathon infection chain

At the start of the year, a certain Trojan caught our eye due to its incredibly long infection chain. In most cases, it kicks off with a web search for "Proxifier". Proxifiers are speciaized software designed to tunnel traffic for programs that do not natively support proxy servers. They are a...

N. Korean Hackers Spread 1,700 Malicious Packages Across npm, PyPI, Go, Rust

The North Korea-linked persistent campaign known as Contagious Interview has spread its tentacles by publishing malicious packages targeting the Go, Rust, and PHP ecosystems. "The threat actor's packages were designed to impersonate legitimate developer tooling ..., while quietly functioning as...

CVE-2026-34841

Bruno is an open source IDE for exploring and testing APIs. Prior to 3.2.1, Bruno was affected by a supply chain attack involving compromised versions of the axios npm package, which introduced a hidden dependency deploying a cross-platform Remote Access Trojan RAT. Users of @usebruno/cli who ran...

CVE-2026-34841 Axios npm Supply Chain Incident Impacting @usebruno/cli

Bruno is an open source IDE for exploring and testing APIs. Prior to 3.2.1, Bruno was affected by a supply chain attack involving compromised versions of the axios npm package, which introduced a hidden dependency deploying a cross-platform Remote Access Trojan RAT. Users of @usebruno/cli who ran...

CVE-2026-34841 Axios npm Supply Chain Incident Impacting @usebruno/cli

Bruno is an open source IDE for exploring and testing APIs. Prior to 3.2.1, Bruno was affected by a supply chain attack involving compromised versions of the axios npm package, which introduced a hidden dependency deploying a cross-platform Remote Access Trojan RAT. Users of @usebruno/cli who ran...

CVE-2026-34841

Bruno (open source IDE for APIs) was affected by a supply-chain incident prior to version 3.2.1 involving compromised axios releases that introduced a hidden dependency deploying a cross‑platform Remote Access Trojan (RAT). The affected window was npm install between 00:21 UTC and ~03:30 UTC on 3...

EUVD-2026-19354

Bruno is an open source IDE for exploring and testing APIs. Prior to 3.2.1, Bruno was affected by a supply chain attack involving compromised versions of the axios npm package, which introduced a hidden dependency deploying a cross-platform Remote Access Trojan RAT. Users of @usebruno/cli who ran...

`logtrace` was removed from crates.io for malicious code

logtrace appeared to be downloading a RAT. The malicious crate had 2 versions published on 2026-04-01 that had a total of 30 downloads. There were no crates depending on this crate on crates.io. Thanks to Socket.dev for detecting and reporting this to the crates.io team!...

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...