The first quarter of 2025 has been a battlefield in the world of cybersecurity. Cybercriminals continued launching aggressive new campaigns and refining their attack methods. Below is an overview of five notable malware families, accompanied by analyses conducted in controlled environments. NetSupport RAT Exploiting the ClickFix Technique In early 2025, threat actors began exploiting a […]
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A large-scale malware campaign has been found leveraging a vulnerable Windows driver associated with Adlice’s product suite to sidestep detection efforts and deliver the Gh0st RAT malware. “To further evade detection, the attackers deliberately generated multiple variants (with different hashes) of the 2.0.2 driver by modifying specific PE parts while keeping the signature valid,” Check […]
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an ongoing campaign that’s targeting gamers and cryptocurrency investors under the guise of open-source projects hosted on GitHub. The campaign, which spans hundreds of repositories, has been dubbed GitVenom by Kaspersky. “The infected projects include an automation instrument for interacting with Instagram accounts, a Telegram bot that enables Go […]
Various industrial organizations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region have been targeted as part of phishing attacks designed to deliver a known malware called FatalRAT. “The threat was orchestrated by attackers using legitimate Chinese cloud content delivery network (CDN) myqcloud and the Youdao Cloud Notes service as part of their attack infrastructure,” Kaspersky ICS CERT said […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two security flaws impacting Adobe ColdFusion and Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2017-3066 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A deserialization vulnerability impacting Go to […]
A patch bypass for a bug in the popular desktop emulator enables root-level privilege escalation and has no fix in sight. Go to Source Author: Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
This move comes less than a year after the United States banned Kaspersky products, out of the same fear that the company is under Russian government control. Go to Source Author: Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading
Confirmation by South Korea’s data protection agency that the AI chatbot sent data to TikTok’s Chinese parent company has spurred a ban in that nation, and is again is calling into question DeepSeek’s safety. Go to Source Author: Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new campaign that leverages cracked versions of software as a lure to distribute information stealers like Lumma and ACR Stealer. The AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) said it has observed a spike in the distribution volume of ACR Stealer since January 2025. A notable aspect of the stealer malware […]
Only by addressing the inefficiencies of current naming conventions can we create a safer, more resilient landscape for all defenders. Go to Source Author: Mike Kosak