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...

Malware in 2025 spread far beyond Windows PCs

This blog is part of a series highlighting new and concerning trends we noticed over the last year. Trends matter because they almost always provide a good indication of what 's coming next. If there’s one thing that became very clear in 2025, it’s that malware is no longer focused on Windows...

MAL-2025-192942 Malicious code in telebot-bot (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 ae13454f920b5cce1011546e4802ed263ce8218d4b484ef8471142abb42c3f3e The package, distinguished as a speed testing or typosquatted Telegram library, contains a Telegram bot to perform remote control of the computer --- Category:...

MAL-2025-192943 Malicious code in telegrem (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 f2186dc29d07dc851d756bae0b5d080ebe5923efe6654fdb4aa9ec55bbba9b6a The package, distinguished as a speed testing or typosquatted Telegram library, contains a Telegram bot to perform remote control of the computer --- Category:...

📄 Backdoor.Win32.Netbus.170 Blind Command Execution

This Metasploit module provides historical/educational exploitation of the Backdoor.Win32.Netbus.170 trojan, originally discovered in 1998. It represents a legacy proof-of-concept rather than a modern offensive security tool...

Hackers Abuse Popular Monitoring Tool Nezha as a Stealth Trojan

Cybersecurity firm Ontinue reveals how the open-source tool Nezha is being used as a Remote Access Trojan RAT to bypass security and control servers globally...

Kimsuky Spreads DocSwap Android Malware via QR Phishing Posing as Delivery App

The North Korean threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a new campaign that distributes a new variant of Android malware called DocSwap via QR codes hosted on phishing sites mimicking Seoul-based logistics firm CJ Logistics formerly CJ Korea Express. "The threat actor leveraged QR codes...

Fake OSINT and GPT Utility GitHub Repos Spread PyStoreRAT Malware Payloads

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that's leveraging GitHub-hosted Python repositories to distribute a previously undocumented JavaScript-based Remote Access Trojan RAT dubbed PyStoreRAT. "These repositories, often themed as development utilities or OSINT tools,...