Tag: malicious
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GitHub Updates actions/checkout to Block Common Pwn Request Attack Patterns
GitHub is moving to strengthen software supply chain security by updating “actions/checkout” to block pwn request attacks that exploit the risky use of the “pull_request_target workflow” trigger to run malicious code with the workflow’s full privileges.Effective June 18, 2026, the latest version of “actions/checkout,” the official GitHub action for checking out a repository into the…
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SocGholish Takedown Highlights Malicious TDS Threats
SocGholish uses traffic distribution systems (TDSs) to provide initial access into victims’ networks for cybercrime groups such as the notorious Evil Corp. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/socgholish-takedown-malicious-tds-threats
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Malicious npm Packages Pose as PostCSS Tools to Deliver Windows RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver a Windows-based remote access trojan (RAT).The list of identified packages, is below – aes-decode-runner-pro (145 downloads) postcss-minify-selector (256 downloads) postcss-minify-selector-parser (615 downloads)All the packages were published over the past month by an npm user named First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Cybercriminals Abuse TDS Infrastructure to Bypass Firewalls and Hide Malicious Destinations
Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing traffic distribution systems (TDSs) to evade defenses, conceal malicious destinations, and funnel victims into phishing, fraud, and malware campaigns. Once considered a legitimate marketing tool to route visitors to different content or offers, TDS infrastructure is now being repurposed as a stealthy redirection layer that complicates detection and response for network…
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Critical FFmpeg Vulnerability Lets Hackers Execute Remote Code via Malicious Media Files
A critical memory corruption vulnerability in FFmpeg has been disclosed, allowing for remote code execution through specially crafted media files. This flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8461 and named “PixelSmash,” affects the MagicYUV decoder within FFmpeg’s libavcodec library and has a CVSS score of 8.8. Discovered by JFrog Security Research, the vulnerability arises from a heap out-of-bounds…
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WhatsApp VBScript Campaign Uses Fake Documents to Install ManageEngine RMM Tool
Direct messages sent via WhatsApp are being used to distribute malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) files that lead to the installation of legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software.Per findings from Kaspersky, the active campaign is targeting users of WhatsApp Desktop and WhatsApp Web across Malaysia, Brazil, India, Mexico, Singapore, the U.K., Spain, Taiwan, Australia,…
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CalPhishing Campaigns Use Outlook Calendar Invites to Deliver Persistent Phishing Lures
A growing trend in which attackers weaponize Microsoft 365 collaboration features to deliver persistent phishing lures via Outlook calendar invites. By abusing Microsoft 365 Groups and Outlook calendar functionality, threat actors move malicious intent out of a single suspicious message and into routine productivity workflows, increasing the chance that targets will treat the interaction as…
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CalPhishing Campaigns Use Outlook Calendar Invites to Deliver Persistent Phishing Lures
A growing trend in which attackers weaponize Microsoft 365 collaboration features to deliver persistent phishing lures via Outlook calendar invites. By abusing Microsoft 365 Groups and Outlook calendar functionality, threat actors move malicious intent out of a single suspicious message and into routine productivity workflows, increasing the chance that targets will treat the interaction as…
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North Korean Hackers Poison Mastra AI Framework
Tags: ai, attack, backdoor, credentials, framework, hacker, malicious, microsoft, north-korea, software, supply-chain, theft, toolMore Than 140 npm Packages Carried Credential-Stealing Code. Microsoft says North Korean-linked BlueNoroff compromised a Mastra npm maintainer account and published more than 140 malicious packages, using a software supply-chain attack to distribute infostealers, backdoors and credential theft tools through AI development environments. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/north-korean-hackers-poison-mastra-ai-framework-a-32042
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Microsoft fixes AutoGen Studio flaw that enabled code execution
A vulnerability chain dubbed AutoJack in Microsoft’s AutoGen Studio interface for prototyping AI agents could let attackers manipulate an agent into executing arbitrary commands on its host system simply by visiting a malicious webpage. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-fixes-autogen-studio-flaw-that-enabled-code-execution/
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New OXLOADER Loader Uses Malicious Google Ads to Deliver CastleStealer
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that delivers CastleStealer by means of a previously unreported malware loader dubbed OXLOADER.According to Elastic Security Labs, the campaign leverages malicious Google Ads as a starting point to distribute the malware. Evidence indicates that the threat actor is likely Russian-speaking and financially motivated, owing to the…
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New OXLOADER Loader Uses Malicious Google Ads to Deliver CastleStealer
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that delivers CastleStealer by means of a previously unreported malware loader dubbed OXLOADER.According to Elastic Security Labs, the campaign leverages malicious Google Ads as a starting point to distribute the malware. Evidence indicates that the threat actor is likely Russian-speaking and financially motivated, owing to the…
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Malicious npm Package Masquerades as PostCSS Utility to Deliver PowerShell Downloader
A malicious npm package, postcss-minify-selector-parser, has been discovered masquerading as a benign PostCSS utility and delivering a multi-stage Windows remote access trojan (RAT). The imposter deliberately mimics the widely used postcss-selector-parser a legitimate library with more than 150 million weekly downloads by reusing the same keyword space (postcss, selector, parser, css) and depending on the…
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GitHub Actions Checkout Adds Protection Against Malicious pull_request_target Workflows
GitHub has implemented a major security enhancement in its Actions ecosystem with the release of actions/checkout v7, which aims to address a long-standing class of vulnerabilities known as “pwn requests.” This update was announced on June 18, 2026, and introduces safer defaults for workflows triggered by the pull_request_target event. This event is one of the…
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OXLOADER Uses MBA Obfuscation and Control-Flow Flattening to Bypass Static Detection
A previously undocumented Windows loader, tracked as OXLOADER, that combines sophisticated obfuscation and unconventional staging to evade static detection and sandbox analysis while delivering the new CASTLESTEALER infostealer via malvertising. The campaign leveraged malicious Google Ads impersonating Node.js and API Monitor, redirecting victims through intermediary domains to Storj-hosted batch scripts that download and execute OXLOADER…
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AryStinger botnet infected thousands of D-Link routers worldwide
A previously undocumented malware botnet named AryStinger has compromised more than 4,000 outdated routers to turn them into proxies for malicious traffic. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/arystinger-botnet-infected-thousands-of-d-link-routers-worldwide/
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AutoJack Exploit Chain Hits Microsoft AutoGen Studio With Zero-Click RCE Attack
A critical exploit chain dubbed AutoJack that allows a single malicious web page to hijack Microsoft’s AutoGen Studio browsing agent and silently execute arbitrary code on the host machine, requiring no user interaction beyond submitting a URL. AutoJack targets AutoGen Studio, Microsoft Research’s open-source prototyping UI for multi-agent AI systems. The technique weaponizes the agent’s built-in web-browsing capabilities…
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Operation Endgame Disrupts SocGholish Servers, Cleans 14,971 WordPress Sites
Dutch law enforcement authorities, along with counterparts from Canada , Germany, and the U.S., have disrupted malicious infrastructure associated with SocGholish and cleaned up nearly 15,000 infected WordPress websites.”With these actions we deprive cybercriminals of access to infected computer systems,” Maikel Rollman of the Netherlands National High Tech Crime Unit said.”This prevents First seen on…
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CISA Warns Fortinet Customers as FortiBleed Hits 86,644 FortiGate Devices
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices.The sweeping campaign, believed to be the work of Russian-speaking threat actors, has been codenamed FortiBleed. The number of compromised devices stands at First seen…
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CISA Warns Fortinet Customers as FortiBleed Hits 86,644 FortiGate Devices
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices.The sweeping campaign, believed to be the work of Russian-speaking threat actors, has been codenamed FortiBleed. The number of compromised devices stands at First seen…
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CISA Warns Fortinet Customers as FortiBleed Hits 86,644 FortiGate Devices
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday urged Fortinet customers with FortiGate appliances to take steps to secure against ongoing malicious activity aimed at thousands of internet-accessible devices.The sweeping campaign, believed to be the work of Russian-speaking threat actors, has been codenamed FortiBleed. The number of compromised devices stands at First seen…
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Cybercriminals abused GitHub, YouTube and VirusTotal to push crypto-stealing malware
A cryptocurrency-stealing malware campaign used inflated GitHub activity, software reviews, YouTube tutorials and favorable VirusTotal comments to make malicious trading and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/19/fake-github-stars-crypto-stealing-malware/
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Tor-Based Clipper Malware Targets Wallet Seed Phrases
USB .lnk malware steals crypto via clipboard hijack, replaces wallet addresses, steals seed phrases, and screenshots. Microsoft Threat Intelligence has been tracking a clipboard-stealing malware (Clipper) campaign since February 2026 that targets cryptocurrency wallets. A clipper is a type of malicious software that monitors and manipulates your clipboard, the temporary memory where data is stored…
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AUR suspends new registrations as 1,500-plus malicious packages flood repository
Tags: maliciousFirst seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/aur-suspends-new-registrations-as-1500-malicious-packages-flood-repository
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Malicious JetBrains plugins steal AI API keys from developers
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/malicious-jetbrains-plugins-steal-ai-api-keys-from-developers
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New Rokarolla Android Trojan Targets 217 Banking and Crypto Apps
Rokarolla Android malware targets 217 banking and crypto apps, steals credentials, blocks bank calls, intercepts SMS, and disables Play Protect. Zimperium’s zLabs researchers have published a detailed analysis of Rokarolla, a new Android banking trojan named after its command-and-control infrastructure. It spreads through malicious websites masquerading as TikTok and Chrome, one confirmed distribution point being…
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Hackers Target npm Ecosystem by Compromising 140+ Mastra Packages
A large-scale software supply chain attack has compromised more than 140 npm packages under the widely used Mastra namespace, exposing developers, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise environments to a stealthy cross-platform infostealer. The campaign, uncovered by the Socket Research Team on June 17, 2026, leveraged a typosquatting dependency, easy-day-js, to silently deliver malicious payloads during package…
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Hackers Target npm Ecosystem by Compromising 140+ Mastra Packages
A large-scale software supply chain attack has compromised more than 140 npm packages under the widely used Mastra namespace, exposing developers, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise environments to a stealthy cross-platform infostealer. The campaign, uncovered by the Socket Research Team on June 17, 2026, leveraged a typosquatting dependency, easy-day-js, to silently deliver malicious payloads during package…