Malware
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RedWing: Android Banking Malware Turns into a Telegram Rental Service
Zimperium zLabs uncovered RedWing, a Malware-as-a-Service platform that commercializes Android banking fraud with Telegram bots and su…
CAI Worm Kills Rival Cloud Malware, Steals Credentials
The CAI cloud-native worm eliminates TeamPCP and PCPJack processes to monopolize compromised hosts, marking an escalation in criminal…
Avalon: The Malware Framework Merging AI and Multi-Evasion to Strike
The Avalon framework combines credential harvesting, multi-EDR evasion, and the CrownX ransomware into a single attack chain. Blackpoi…
BusySnake Stealer: The APT That Generates Malware With AI
Armored Likho uses LLMs to write first-stage payloads and PyArmor Pro to obfuscate them. Kaspersky's report reveals an infostealer tar…
ToddyCat's Umbrij Malware Steals Gmail OAuth Tokens by Abusing Enterprise Browsers
The Umbrij malware automates OAuth 2.0 token theft via the Chrome DevTools Protocol, bypassing passwords and MFA on corporate Gmail ac…
ClickFix Evolves Into a Platform: Analysis of 3,000 Payloads Reveals API-Driven Delivery
A researcher analyzed 3,000 live ClickFix payloads, uncovering an API-driven architecture, rotating cryptographic wrappers, and adopti…
ScreenConnect Abused to Deliver AsyncRAT via 90+ Spoofed Freeware Domains
Kaspersky MDR uncovered a large-scale campaign that weaponizes the legitimate remote-access tool ScreenConnect to deploy AsyncRAT thro…
RustDuck: The IoT Botnet Rewritten in Rust Challenges Researchers
QiAnXin XLab has tracked RustDuck since February 2026: a two-stage malware rewritten in Rust with enterprise-grade encryption and anti…
Amadey/StealC: 27M Credentials Recovered, $47M in Crypto Seized
Operation Endgame dismantled two malware-as-a-service networks. Here's why the RICO legal theory changes the game and what it means fo…
Gaslight: macOS Malware Tricks AI Analyzers with Prompt Injection
SentinelOne researchers have documented Gaslight, a previously unknown Rust-based macOS implant that embeds a prompt-injection payload…
Edgecution: Malicious Edge Extension Bypasses Sandbox via Native Messaging
Zscaler ThreatLabz documents a campaign where the Edgecution extension abuses Chrome's Native Messaging API to escape the browser sand…
Mistic: KongTuke's In-Memory Backdoor Challenges EDR Defenses
Operational since April 2026, the stealthy Mistic backdoor leverages DLL sideloading and in-memory BOF execution for long-term persist…