Malware
Curated coverage and analysis in this editorial area.
Rokarolla: The Android Trojan That Turns Your Phone Into a Digital Prison
Discovered by Zimperium zLabs, the Rokarolla trojan deploys 137 commands and fake overlays to isolate victims, steal banking credentia…
Lorem Ipsum Pivots to ClickFix After Fox Tempest Takedown
BlueVoyant reports the Lorem Ipsum malware abandoned signed Microsoft Teams installers for ClickFix tactics on compromised WordPress s…
GhostTree: The NTFS Attack That Freezes EDR
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed GhostTree, an evasion technique that neutralizes Windows Defender using recursive NTFS junctions — no el…
DragonForce Weaponizes Microsoft Teams TURN Relays for Stealth C2
The DragonForce ransomware group deployed Backdoor.Turn, the first documented in-the-wild malware to abuse Microsoft Teams' legitimate…
SprySOCKS Returns to Windows: Kernel Rootkit and Government Targeting
ESET discovered Windows variants of the SprySOCKS backdoor—previously Linux-only—equipped with a kernel rootkit and used against gover…
Chinese APT UNC6508: A Year of Espionage on REDCap Servers
Google exposes UNC6508: over a year of REDCap server compromise at U.S. and Canadian medical and military institutions using InfiniteR…
The Gentlemen: LLMs Cut Ransomware Development to Three Days
CERT-AGID reports the ransomware group The Gentlemen uses LLMs to build platforms in three days, personalize extortion, and replicate…
Algorithmic Exploitation: How TikTok and Instagram Reels Amplify Vidar Malware
ReversingLabs research reveals threat actors are using fake Spotify Premium tutorials to distribute the Vidar infostealer via PowerShe…
Microsoft Backtracks on Legal Threats Against Zero-Day Researcher Following Industry Backlash
Microsoft threatened criminal action against researcher Nightmare-Eclipse over six Defender zero-days, partially retracting its stance…
C0XMO: Gafgyt Variant Targets DD-WRT Routers with Modular Scanner and Competitor-Killing Routine
The C0XMO variant of the Gafgyt botnet exploits CVE-2021-27137 in DD-WRT firmware, utilizing a modular architecture with a standalone…
Microsoft Retracts Legal Threats Against Researchers Following Zero-Day Disclosure Backlash
Microsoft threatened criminal prosecution against researcher Nightmare-Eclipse for publishing six Windows zero-days before walking bac…
TA4922 Targets Europe with New Atlas RAT and AI-Assisted Malware Development
Proofpoint tracks the European expansion of TA4922, a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group deploying the new Atlas RAT, RomulusLoader, an…