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Category: Malware
Malicious URLs overtake attachments as top email threat
Cybercriminals increasingly favor malicious URLs over attachments, as they are easier to disguise and more likely to evade detection, according […]
New PS1Bot Malware Campaign Uses Malvertising to Deploy Multi-Stage In-Memory Attacks
Aug 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalvertising / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malvertising campaign that’s designed to infect victims with […]
Growing complexity means legacy security systems miss one in every 14 threats
Traditional detection methods are being outpaced, with a 127 percent rise in malware complexity and one in 14 files initially […]
Malware Injected into 6 npm Packages After Maintainer Tokens Stolen in Phishing Attack
Jul 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have alerted to a supply chain attack that has targeted popular […]
GitHub abused to distribute payloads on behalf of malware-as-a-service
Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team have uncovered a malware-as-a-service operator that used public GitHub accounts as a channel for […]
Matanbuchus 3.0 is a serious malware threat spread via Microsoft Teams
The Matanbuchus malware loader is not new – it has been around for at least 4 years – but it […]
Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records
Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) […]
New ZuRu Malware Variant Targeting Developers via Trojanized Termius macOS App
Jul 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered new artifacts associated with an Apple macOS malware called […]
Open-source malware targets data exfiltration
Supply chain security company Sonatype has released the Q2 2025 edition of its Open Source Malware Index, uncovering 16,279 malicious […]