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Security Boulevard

BlackSanta Malware Shuts Down Protections, Targets HR and Recruiting Operations

Those aren't toys. Malware used in a sophisticated spear-phishing and infostealing campaign by Russian bad actors includes a component dubbed BlackSanta that can shut down antivirus and EDR ...
Dark Reading

Nation-State Actor Embraces AI Malware Assembly Line

Pakistan's APT36 threat group has begun using vibe-coding to churn out mediocre malware, but at a scale that could overwhelm ...
The Hacker News

KadNap Malware Infects 14,000+ Edge Devices to Power Stealth Proxy Botnet

KadNap botnet infects 14,000+ routers using DHT-based P2P control while ClipXDaemon hijacks crypto wallets on Linux X11.
Microsoft

Contagious Interview: Malware delivered through fake developer job interviews

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

ThreatDown Uncovers First Cyber Attack Abusing Deno JavaScript Runtime for Fileless Malware Delivery

ThreatDown, the corporate business unit of Malwarebytes, today published research documenting what researchers believe to be ...

Fake Claude Code Spreads Malware to Windows, macOS Users

Attackers are using fake Claude Code install pages and malicious search ads to spread infostealer malware targeting Windows ...

Microsoft Teams phishing targets employees with A0Backdoor malware

Hackers contacted employees at financial and healthcare organizations over Microsoft Teams to trick them into granting remote ...

DarkCloud Infostealer Written in Visual Basic 6.0 Costs Just $30

Cheap infostealer quietly spreading through cybercrime markets ...

Medtech giant Stryker offline after Iran-linked wiper malware attack

Leading medical technology company Stryker has been hit by a wiper malware attack claimed by Handala, an Iranian-linked and pro-Palestinian hacktivist group.
DataBreachToday

Bing AI Pushed Malware Posing as OpenClaw

Fake OpenClaw installers on GitHub deployed credential stealers and a proxy tool linked to the Black Basta ransomware group, while Bing's AI served the malicious ...

14,000 routers are infected by malware that’s highly resistant to takedowns

Researchers say they have uncovered a takedown-resistant botnet of 14,000 routers and other network devices—primarily made by Asus—that have been conscripted into a proxy network that anonymously ...