Apple announced its first foldable iPhone on September 9, and scammers were ready to ‘deliver’ one before anyone could buy it. Most of what we found around the launch of the iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro was familiar fraud. But one fake preorder page was different. The fake Apple-style page offers a $500 voucher and a ticking preorder deadline. Behind its Apple-style design and $500 voucher, the page uses the leaked DarkSword exploit chain to try to break into vulnerable iPhones. If it succeeds,…
In this article Activity overview Discovery of additional rotating infrastructure Attack chain overviewMitigation and protection guidanceReferencesLearn more MacSync Stealer is a macOS-focused information stealer that relies on changing infrastructure to deliver payloads, communicate with compromised devices, and exfiltrate data. Earlier reporting by RST Cloud identified the threat through a limited set of domains and documented rapid command-and-control (C2) replacement after public disclosure…
Cisco Talos recently identified an undocumented phishing framework, internally branded "JWR" by its developer, built to convincingly impersonate checkout and login pages across major payment and shopping platforms. The client engine of the JWR phishing framework is a real-time, operator-driven system that, rather than merely logging form submissions like a static credential-stealing page, keeps an AES-CTR encrypted WebSocket open to the threat actor so they can steer each victim's session live.…
Coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor are vendor-signed, used all day on developer laptops, and routinely open shells, call APIs, edit files, and install helpers. That makes GenAI-adjacent alerts challenging to investigate. The parent looks trusted, while the children can still look a lot like classic high-severity activity. This article walks through one of those windows. On a macOS endpoint, Elastic Security endpoint telemetry showed shells under Claude Code that scripted a login to an…
Coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor are vendor-signed, used all day on developer laptops, and routinely open shells, call APIs, edit files, and install helpers. That makes GenAI-adjacent alerts challenging to investigate. The parent looks trusted, while the children can still look a lot like classic high-severity activity. This article walks through one of those windows. On a macOS endpoint, Elastic Security endpoint telemetry showed shells under Claude Code that scripted a login to an…