Building your malware analysis lab is a key point before playing with malware. Today, thanks to virtualization, it's convenient to play with snapshots in your lab. Start a new investigation from a clean snapshot and take some more when you reached a critical step. But, if you need to revert to a previous snapshot, all changes applied to the VM are... lost! Therefore, it's important to store important data outside the VM. If you do malware analysis with Ghidra[1], your work lives in "projects".…
You recognize the website. You’ve visited it before. You may even have it bookmarked. Then it asks you to do something unusual: install an update, allow notifications, or run a command to prove you’re human. Stop and check first. A website you trust can still display instructions you shouldn’t follow. Our researchers have documented attacks in which criminals hacked legitimate websites and used them to deliver fake verification pages that trick visitors into installing malware. Within the same…
In this article Attack overview Technical details Mitigation and protection guidance Indicators of compromise References Learn More On October 21, 2026, a compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 release was published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) and distributed through official container images. The malicious package added files that Python could execute during normal interpreter initialization. An application did not need to import LiteLLM for the payload to run: starting Python in an affected…
ClickFix tricks users into pasting malicious commands into the Windows Run dialog. See how Attack Reduction in Huntress ESPM helps prevent that from happening.
Here is the YARA rule I used to detect "Orphaned VBA Projects Inside DWG Files". rule autocad_orphaned_vba_project { strings: $a = "AC10" $b = {D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1} $c = "[Host Extender Info]" ascii condition: $a at 0 and uint32(0x24) == 0 and $b and $c } A VirusTotal retrohunt with this rule gave me only 2 detections: 09d4607941e458f6dbb6be17825641d863c0b37c185027984e137d8a67e919d8 3310c1a9bfe6115e49d8ac372cef5f460850da05138340107e66b958a6b5bca6 Didier Stevens Senior handler blog…
CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Public Service Announcement (PSA) warning election and campaign officials about cyber threats during the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. Malicious cyber actors may use phishing and smishing techniques to steal login credentials and other sensitive information or install malware on targeted devices. Election officials, candidates, and political organizations may be attractive targets because of their access to voter registration data,…
Maybe it’s a text saying your package couldn’t be delivered, with a link to reschedule. Or an email from your bank asking you to verify your account. Or perhaps it’s an invitation from someone you know to view a document. The message looks real enough, but something about the link feels fishy. Do you click it? Malwarebytes Scam Link Check is a new free tool that lets you check a suspicious link before you click. Simply paste the link into Scam Link Check, and Malwarebytes will scan it for signs…
[This is a Guest Diary by Zachary Norwood, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Crypto mining malware has been active and spreading across the internet for quite some time now. Moreover, the DShield honeypot picked up a worm that self-propagates through a plethora of means. One of them is stealing SSH keys after it gains access to a system. Furthermore, it also leverages a rootkit to maintain access to infected systems. One would hope that threat actors would have moved on past…
Your streaming box might not look like much of a computer. But connect enough inexpensive devices together, and they can run an AI model. Researchers at Anthropic demonstrated this by running a Google Gemma model across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes. They warn that small models could soon spread across vulnerable internet-of-things (IoT) devices, including smart ovens and TV boxes, stating: “Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self…
A domain that has long appeared in software documentation, code examples, and developer test material is now being used to push a ClickFix attack against Windows users. A placeholder domain stands in for a website in an example. The best-known is probably example.com. Another, third-party[.]com, has often been used in documentation to represent an external website, API, or service. However, there is a very important difference between the two: example.com is reserved for documentation, while…
A sideloaded package turns a Microsoft-signed binary into an OAuth token theft tool. No phishing domain, no spoofed UI, no browser. Here's how to detect it.
AI has already made fundamental changes to the operating environment for cybersecurity. Cyberattackers are testing more paths, adapting their techniques, and moving across digital environments with greater speed and persistence. The weaknesses they exploit remain familiar: excessive permissions, unprotected authentication flows, unpatched systems, exposed execution paths, and gaps between controls. What has changed is how quickly these weaknesses can combine into attack paths that cross…
Modern macOS malware uses deceptive setup guides to steal credentials and sensitive user data. Learn how to identify and block these threats. The post Atomic macOS (AMOS) Stealer Activity appeared first on Unit 42.
“Free” movies and TV could cost you your privacy, bandwidth, and control of your home network. We’ve warned about illegal streaming and modded Amazon Fire TV Sticks in the past. Now, researchers have found that certain SuperBox devices and apps could quietly enroll a household connection into a proxy network, allowing third parties to route traffic through it. An earlier report identified CyberFlix TV, available through SuperBox’s custom app store, as containing Popanet proxy functionality that…
Infostealers can expose far more than passwords, including authenticated sessions that may let attackers bypass MFA. Flare explains how defenders can prioritize compromised identities, determine whether stolen access is still usable, and respond before it leads to account takeover. [...]
Researchers have uncovered ToxicPanda 2.0, an Android banking Trojan and remote-access tool designed for account takeover and “on-device fraud.” Not only does ToxicPanda 2.0 have a much larger target list of banks and e-wallets, it has also expanded its capabilities by combining banking overlays, remote access, PIN capture, Android accessibility abuse, and attempted Wireless Debugging automation. Together, those functions can help operators turn a compromised phone into a platform for account…
Introduction In part one, we examined how Linux rootkits work: their evolution, taxonomy, and techniques for manipulating user space and kernel space. In this second part, we turn to detection engineering. We begin by showing why static detection is often unreliable against Linux rootkits, even when binaries are only trivially modified, and then move on to behavioral and runtime signals that defenders can use instead. From shared object abuse and LKM loading to eBPF, io_uring, persistence, and…