QRLJacking

QRLJacking - A New Social Engineering Attack Vector Find documentation in our Wiki. What is QRLJacking? QRLJacking or Quick Response Code Login Jacking is a simple social engineering attack vector capable of session hijacking affecting all applications that rely on the “Login with QR code” featur...

Using Device Linking to Eavesdrop on WhatsApp and Signal

Modern messaging apps allow users to link their phone accounts to their computer desktop. Eavesdroppers are taking advantage of this capability: Apps such as WhatsApp Web and Signal Desktop allow people to use their accounts on other devices, such as laptops or desktop computers. Germany's Custom...

Malicious code in plogme (npm)

plogme is a renamed fork of the Baileys WhatsApp Web library from the same publisher-controlled family as @crysnovax/baileys MAL-2026-15917, and versions 1.0.0 through 1.0.3 carry the same forced-follow and fingerprint modules. lib/Utils/channel-policy.js javascript-obfuscator output, identical t...

MAL-2026-16199 Malicious code in plogme (npm)

plogme is a renamed fork of the Baileys WhatsApp Web library from the same publisher-controlled family as @crysnovax/baileys MAL-2026-15917, and versions 1.0.0 through 1.0.3 carry the same forced-follow and fingerprint modules. lib/Utils/channel-policy.js javascript-obfuscator output, identical t...

Malicious code in @modss/baileys (npm)

@modss/baileys is a renamed fork of the Baileys WhatsApp Web library published 2026-09-01 and 2026-09-02 under a scope created the same day. lib/Socket/newsletter.js sets NEWSLETTERLISTURL to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dayyy-19/Anu/main/Newsletter.json. On every connection.update with...

Malicious code in @crysnovax/baileys (npm)

@crysnovax/baileys is a renamed fork of the Baileys WhatsApp Web library. On every successful connection connection.update with connection === 'open', wired in lib/Socket/socket.js it silently makes the user's own authenticated WhatsApp account follow two channels controlled by the publisher,...

Malicious code in megan-baileys (npm)

megan-baileys is a renamed fork of the Baileys WhatsApp Web library. In lib/Socket/newsletter.js, 90 seconds after makeNewsletterSocket is constructed, a base64-encoded string is decoded to https://files.gifted.co.ke/file/chJids.json, fetched with node-fetch, and every channel id in the response ...

MSC-2026-6456

Malicious forks of the Baileys WhatsApp Web library published to npm, including the wave OX Security tracks as PhantomSub. The forks abuse the installer's authenticated WhatsApp session to silently follow attacker-controlled WhatsApp channels, using channel IDs that are hardcoded, base64-encoded,...

CVE-2026-48063

Baileys is a cocket-based TS/JavaScript API for WhatsApp Web. In versions prior to both 6.7.22 and 7.0.0-rc12, any Baileys session can be sent a malicious payload via the placeholderResendMessage and trigger a fake messages.upsert event with a fake message key and payload. This allows anyone to...

EUVD-2026-52440

Baileys is a cocket-based TS/JavaScript API for WhatsApp Web. In versions prior to both 6.7.22 and 7.0.0-rc12, any Baileys session can be sent a malicious payload via the placeholderResendMessage and trigger a fake messages.upsert event with a fake message key and payload. This allows anyone to...

CVE-2026-67595

VaahCMS versions 2.0.0 through 2.3.4 contain a malicious obfuscated JavaScript payload embedded in the Blade template responsible for rendering security OTP emails, allowing remote attackers to execute unauthorized code in any browser that renders the affected email template with JavaScript...

CVE-2026-67595

VaahCMS versions 2.0.0–2.3.4 contain a malicious obfuscated JavaScript payload embedded in the security-otp.blade.php template used to render security OTP emails. The payload can run in any browser that renders the affected email with JavaScript enabled and establishes a WebSocket connection to a...

CVE-2026-67595 VaahCMS 2.0.0 - 2.3.4 Malicious JavaScript Supply Chain via security-otp.blade.php

VaahCMS versions 2.0.0 through 2.3.4 contain a malicious obfuscated JavaScript payload embedded in the Blade template responsible for rendering security OTP emails, allowing remote attackers to execute unauthorized code in any browser that renders the affected email template with JavaScript...

CVE-2026-67595

VaahCMS versions 2.0.0 through 2.3.4 contain a malicious obfuscated JavaScript payload embedded in the Blade template responsible for rendering security OTP emails, allowing remote attackers to execute unauthorized code in any browser that renders the affected email template with JavaScript...

PT-2026-65916

VaahCMS versions 2.0.0 through 2.3.4 contain a malicious obfuscated JavaScript payload embedded in the Blade template responsible for rendering security OTP emails, allowing remote attackers to execute unauthorized code in any browser that renders the affected email template with JavaScript...

A week in security (July 20 – July 26)

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WhatsApp Web chats exposed by Adobe’s Acrobat extension flaw

HermeticReader is the name given to a recently disclosed vulnerability in the Adobe Acrobat PDF extension for Chrome, tracked as CVE-2026-48294. Researchers discovered the issue in early June 2026 and reported it to Adobe, which patched the flaw over a single weekend. They found that a single vis...

Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, could facilitate a silent hijack of a user's WhatsApp data. The shortcoming has been codenamed HermeticReader by Guardi...

MAL-2026-4369 Malicious code in @blckrose/baileys (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 17e53bba6dc765b6c0f5d1a1a33a1ebcc7827e35af3688f86555bf1c067f5d0d This package is a fork of the Baileys WhatsApp Web library that ships three undisclosed behaviors which benefit the publisher at the installer's...

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...