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Hackers Target Yet Another Steam Game With Malware. Here's How They Did It
The attacks used Meccha Chameleon community maps as Trojan horses to install malware.…
Malware found hidden inside popular Meccha Chameleon game maps
An infected system engineer's PC also led to attackers seizing control of the game's nearly 100,000-member Discord server.…
ClickLock Mac malware locks apps until you give in
ClickLock Mac malware uses a fake verification page to trick users into pasting a Terminal command, then steals passwords and cryptocurrency wallets.…
The hottest indie game on Steam just had a malware scare
A malicious Meccha Chameleon Steam Workshop map was found attempting to download malware onto players' PCs. Here's what happened, why it matters, and how to stay safe.…
Multiple Meccha Chameleon Steam Workshop Maps Got Infected With Malware And Its Discord Server Was Hacked
While Meccha Chameleon's developers have already rolled out a fix, but the game's official Discord server seems to be a lost cause…
Hermes AI agent used to automate attack on Thai Finance Ministry
A threat actor used the open-source Hermes AI agent in unattended "YOLO" mode to automate post-exploitation activity during an alleged breach of Thailand's Ministry of Finance.…
Trusted Mac apps could possibly be swapped out for malware
Hackers hid dangerous malware on a page hidden in Anthopic's Claude.ai domain
Claude Artifacts have been used as phishing lures, once again…
'ClickLock' Malware Coerces Mac Users Into Giving Up Passwords
Security firm Group-IB has identified a new piece of macOS malware in the wild that pressures users into surrendering their passwords via a barrage of fake system prompts. Dubbed "…
AgentBaiting: Fake AI Skills and MCP Servers Delivered Malware
Island researchers uncover 7,600+ malicious GitHub repos, over 800 posing as AI Skills and MCP servers, that trick AI agents into recommending malware.…
A new Android malware from Google
If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devic...…
Global cyber strike disrupts SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC malware networks
Europol together with partners from across the globe today announces a landmark blow to cybercriminal networks as part of Operation Endgame, a sweeping international operation targ…
Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware
The Arch Linux User Repository 'AUR' was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised.…
Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware…
Malware scare keeps schoolkids home for a second day
Great Marlow restricts network access while it investigates suspected infection…
Android vs iOS security: which OS is safer? We compare their protections against theft, malware, snooping, and more
Your phone is at risk from thieves, viruses, snoopers, and dodgy apps, but Android and iOS both have tools to minimize the threats.…
Nobody needs Mythos or 0-days to build a chaos-causing computer worm – free open source models work just fine
'Attackers can now cheaply operationalize known vulnerabilities at scale,' boffins tell The Reg…
‘A Fundamentally New Threat’: Researchers Develop New AI-Powered Worm That Might Be Unstoppable
A team of researchers have shown how a self-replicating AI agent can take over a computer network at almost no cost.…
Weedhack malware campaign infects 116,000 mod-hungry Minecraft players systems through SEO poisoning and YouTube
Minecraft players looking for fun new ways to play are instead downloading infected modpacks and clients.…
Malvertising Campaign Spoofs GitHub to Deliver macOS Trojans
Evasive technique combines zero-width space (ZWSP) with Github spoofing to deliver malware through malvertising…
Steam Community Profiles abused as C2 network in new WordPress malware infection campaign
The comments on some Steam Profiles are actually loaded with invisible malware.…
The sorry state of skill distribution
We recently bypassed ClawHub’s malicious skill detector, Cisco’s agent skill scanner, and all three of the scanners integrated into skills.sh.…
AI Agents Enable Adaptive Computer Worms
A computer worm is malware that spreads on a network by replicating itself from one machine to another. Traditional worms, like WannaCry, exploited predetermined vulnerabilities, a…
Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch phishing attacks (Jacob Judah/Financial Times)
Jacob Judah / Financial Times : Experts say ChatGPT, Gemini, and other Western AI models are turbocharging Iran's cyber operations, helping it develop malware and launch phishing a…
Question of android malware
Lone attacker published 14 malicious NPM packages
And then Microsoft busted them all…
LLMShare: Attackers are turning AI chatbot pages into malware delivery platforms
How attackers are using shared content features on AI chatbot platforms to deliver malware via pages hosted on legitimate domains, sent via malvertising.…
Report warns that cybercriminals are exploiting Cockroach Janta Party’s popularity to con GenZ
A report reveals cybercriminals are using the Cockroach Janta Party's popularity to distribute malware targeting Gen Z Android users.…
Hackers are now using ChatGPT share links to deliver malware
Hackers are now abusing ChatGPT to generate malicious webpages that trick unsuspecting users into downloading malware onto their machines.…
Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled
The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.…
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82% of IT pros report a web-based security incident in past year – BYOD, SaaS tools, and remote work policies all play a part in security resilience
Confidence among IT leaders is high, but hackers are abusing web-based attacks more than ever.…
Russia-linked threat group put ChatGPT to work from lure to payload
Researchers say 'GREYVIBE' crew used AI tools throughout a campaign targeting Ukrainian military and government…
I have a datastealer malware
Independent cyber audit finds zero malware or backdoors in DJI drones — U.S. firm's hardware analysis challenges FCC ban amid ongoing $1.56 billion legal battle
The same firm that inspects TikTok's U.S. platform found zero critical, high, or medium-risk issues across five months of testing.…
A Supply Chain Rat Exfiltrating to HuggingFace
Deep technical analysis of MicrosoftSystem64, an 81 MB Node.js SEA binary deployed via malicious npm packages. This RAT steals browser credentials, 80+ crypto wallet extensions, Te…
Microsoft warns GPU mining malware is being spread to users through SEO poisoning and AI chatbots — cryptojacking campaign targets gamers and high-end PC users with downloads disguised as popular PC utilities
Malware avoids detention by monitoring GPU usage and shutting down during heavy activity…
1,001 IPs, 64 countries, one operation: mapping a botnet by its back end
A single attacking IP tells you little. The back end it pulls its payload from, and the client fingerprint it presents, are the parts operators reuse. Correlating both across the s…
Hackers caught hiding OpenAI token-stealing malware in Codex npm package - Cybernews
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New Threat Actor 'Jinx-0164' Targets Crypto Firms with Custom macOS Malware
A new threat actor, JINX-0164, is targeting cryptocurrency firms with custom macOS malware like the AUDIOFIX infostealer, using social engineering and supply chain attacks to steal…
'Threat actors are adapting social engineering and monetization strategies to modern user behavior': Microsoft warns AI chatbots may be sending victims to malicious websites — so be on your guard when clicking
What happens when an AI recommends a tool, and that tool ends up being malicious?…
Malware dev tries to steal Claude users' secrets, leaks own GitHub private token
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How I Found a Fake Job Assessment Repo Hiding Malware Inside SVG Files
Like a lot of developers in this market, I’ve been taking freelance assessments and Discord job leads...…
'Adversaries are no longer just targeting products, they're targeting the developers who build them': CrowdStrike takes down major botnet targeting developers across the world
The Glassworm botnet is no more, thanks to coordinated efforts between CrowdStrike, Google, and the Shadowserver Foundation.…
CrowdStrike and Google dismantle Glassworm botnet that targeted crypto wallet credentials through open source supply chains
CrowdStrike and Google dismantled the Glassworm botnet, which compromised 300+ open source packages and targeted 49 crypto wallet extensions for credential theft.…
MalShark: MCP-Powered Malware Traffic Analysis — Benchmarked Against Real Malware
MalShark: MCP-Powered Malware Traffic Analysis — Benchmarked Against Real Malware
Kash Patel's 'BasedApparel' website is apparently hosting ClickFix malware
The malware apparently only targets macOS users…
Hackers Exploit GTA 6 Hype to Spread Malware Via Fake Beta Tests
'We need you to help us build Vice City,' one of the scam sites says. The downloads are nothing but Windows-based malware, according to security researchers at NordVPN.…
Fake ChatGPT installers on GitHub are dropping Deno RATs
The post Fake software on GitHub and SourceForge distribute Deno RAT⤴︎ appeared first on Malwarebytes⤴︎.…
Millions of People Are Installing Malware on Their Partners’ Phones (with Zack Whittaker)
Joseph talks to Zack Whittaker all about stalkerware, the pervasive malware that ordinary people install on their partners' phones.…
Ghost CMS flaw hijacked to target hundreds of websites with ClickFix attacks — here's how to stay safe
A critical-level flaw in a popular CMS, patched months ago, is now being abused.…
Do I have malware? Sketchy betting website somehow got opened once
'Security of your network is essential to security of your robot': Industrial robots targeted by malware, which could open them up to hacking — is this how the revolution begins?
Critical Universal Robots vulnerability lets attackers execute commands directly on collaborative robots with full system-level privileges…
Megalodon cyberattack infects 5,500 GitHub open-source repositories with malware, researchers say
Security researchers say 5,500 GitHub repositories have been affected by the attack.…
GitHub hit with another major attack — Megalodon hits over 5,000 repos with malware-laden commits
A TeamPCP copycat was just spotted hitting thousands of GitHub repos with an infostealer.…
How Iranian threat actor Nimbus Manticore used techniques like AI-assisted malware development and SEO poisoning to target companies during the US-Iran war (Check Point Research)
Check Point Research : How Iranian threat actor Nimbus Manticore used techniques like AI-assisted malware development and SEO poisoning to target companies during the US-Iran war —…
Supply Chain Attacks Cluster: 230K Advisories, Five Patterns
Pulled the full OSV mirror for npm and PyPI — 230,000+ advisories. The malicious-tagged subset clusters into five recurring patterns. None of them are clever. All of them keep work…