Tag: rat
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Deep#Door Python Backdoor Evades Detection On Windows
Deep#Door Python RAT uses tunneling and obfuscation to evade detection and steal credentials First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/deepdoor-python-backdoor-windows/
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New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic’s Claude Opus large language model (LLM).The package in question is “@validate-sdk/v2,” which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding, and secure random generation. However, its…
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New Wave of DPRK Attacks Uses AI-Inserted npm Malware, Fake Firms, and RATs
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious code in an npm package after a malicious package as a dependency to the project by Anthropic’s Claude Opus large language model (LLM).The package in question is “@validate-sdk/v2,” which is listed on npm as a utility software development kit (SDK) for hashing, validation, encoding/decoding, and secure random generation. However, its…
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Auraboros RAT Adds Live Audio, Keylogging, and Cookie Theft via Open C2 Panel
A fully exposed command-and-control (C2) panel for a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) framework dubbed Auraboros, supporting live audio streaming, intensive keylogging, browser credential theft, and multi-cookie hijacking all accessible over the internet with zero authentication. Further inspection revealed “Auraboros C2 Station,” a polished single-page dashboard that immediately loads victim data and live controls without…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Vercel Hack, Push Fraud, QEMU Abused, New Android RATs Emerge & More
Monday’s recap shows the same pattern in different places. A third-party tool becomes a way in, then leads to internal access. A trusted download path is briefly swapped to deliver malware. Browser extensions act normally while pulling data and running code. Even update channels are used to push payloads. It’s not breaking systems”, it’s bending…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Vercel Hack, Push Fraud, QEMU Abused, New Android RATs Emerge & More
Monday’s recap shows the same pattern in different places. A third-party tool becomes a way in, then leads to internal access. A trusted download path is briefly swapped to deliver malware. Browser extensions act normally while pulling data and running code. Even update channels are used to push payloads. It’s not breaking systems”, it’s bending…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Vercel Hack, Push Fraud, QEMU Abused, New Android RATs Emerge & More
Monday’s recap shows the same pattern in different places. A third-party tool becomes a way in, then leads to internal access. A trusted download path is briefly swapped to deliver malware. Browser extensions act normally while pulling data and running code. Even update channels are used to push payloads. It’s not breaking systems”, it’s bending…
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Gh0st RAT, CloverPlus Hit Victims in Dual-Malware Campaign
A new malware campaign is bundling a powerful remote access trojan (RAT) with intrusive adware, giving attackers both long-term control of infected systems and an immediate revenue stream from fraudulent advertising activity. The loader hides two encrypted payloads in its resource section, one of which is detected as AdWare.Win32.CloverPlus. Once executed, this adware installs advertising…
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MiningDropper Spreads Infostealers, RATs, Banking Malware on Android
Hackers are abusing a modular Android framework called MiningDropper to mine cryptocurrency and silently install infostealers, remote access trojans (RATs), and banking malware on infected devices. MiningDropper is a multi-stage Android dropper that combines crypto-mining with the delivery of additional malware payloads, including banking trojans, RATs such as BTMOB, and credential-stealing spyware. A recent variant is built…
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JanaWare Ransomware Hits Turkish Users via Tailored Adwind RAT
A newly analyzed ransomware campaign dubbed “JanaWare” is targeting users in Turkey by leveraging a customized version of the Adwind Remote Access Trojan (RAT). The campaign combines stealthy delivery techniques, geographic restrictions, and polymorphic malware to evade detection while maintaining long-term activity. Researchers identified that JanaWare is specifically designed to infect systems located in Turkey.…
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Mirax malware campaign hits 220K accounts, enables full remote control
Mirax, a new Android RAT, spread via Meta ads, infected 220,000 users and turns devices into SOCKS5 proxies, giving attackers full remote control. Mirax is a new Android remote access trojan spreading through ads on Meta platforms, targeting mainly Spanish-speaking users and reaching over 220,000 accounts. The malicious code lets attackers fully control infected devices…
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Mirax RAT Targets Android Devices Through Meta Apps
Malware-as-a-Service Operations Favors Russian-Speaking Customers. An emerging remote access Trojan targeting Android devices in Spanish-speaking nations is propagating fraudulent advertisements as an initial access point on Meta-owned applications. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/mirax-rat-targets-android-devices-through-meta-apps-a-31421
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Mirax Android RAT Hijacks Infected Phones as Residential Proxies
A new Android banking trojan called Mirax is rapidly gaining traction in the cybercrime ecosystem, combining powerful remote access features with residential proxy capabilities to turn victims’ smartphones into high-value infrastructure nodes. Mirax is marketed as a premium Android RAT and banking malware, offering attackers full, real”‘time control over compromised devices. Once installed, the malware can execute…
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Mirax Android RAT Hijacks Infected Phones as Residential Proxies
A new Android banking trojan called Mirax is rapidly gaining traction in the cybercrime ecosystem, combining powerful remote access features with residential proxy capabilities to turn victims’ smartphones into high-value infrastructure nodes. Mirax is marketed as a premium Android RAT and banking malware, offering attackers full, real”‘time control over compromised devices. Once installed, the malware can execute…
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Janela RAT Spreads via Fake MSI Installers, Malicious Extensions
Janela Remote Access Trojan (RAT) campaign using fake Windows MSI installers and malicious browser extensions to infiltrate financial networks and exfiltrate sensitive data. The latest Janela RAT samples are being distributed through public GitLab repositories, where attackers host MSI installation files disguised as legitimate software installers. Unsuspecting users in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico the campaign’s primary targets are lured into downloading these…
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Mirax Android RAT Turns Devices into SOCKS5 Proxies, Reaching 220,000 via Meta Ads
A nascent Android remote access trojan called Mirax has been observed actively targeting Spanish-speaking countries, with campaigns reaching more than 220,000 accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and Threads through advertisements on Meta.”Mirax integrates advanced Remote Access Trojan (RAT) capabilities, allowing threat actors to fully interact with compromised devices in real First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Fake Claude AI installer abuses DLL sideloading to deploy PlugX
Fake Claude website impersonates Anthropic and delivers PlugX RAT via ZIP download using DLL sideloading. A fake website impersonating Anthropic’s Claude service was found distributing the PlugX remote access trojan, according to Malwarebytes. The rogue site abuses the chatbot’s popularity to trick users into downloading a ZIP archive presented as a “pro version” installer. The…
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JanelaRAT Malware Targets Latin American Banks with 14,739 Attacks in Brazil in 2025
Banks and financial institutions in Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico have continued to be the target of a malware family called JanelaRAT.A modified version of BX RAT, JanelaRAT is known to steal financial and cryptocurrency data associated with specific financial entities, as well as track mouse inputs, log keystrokes, take screenshots, and collect…
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Hackers hijacked CPUID downloads, served STX RAT to victims
If you tried to download software from CPUID’s website late last week, you might have downloaded malware instead. >>Investigations are still ongoing, but it appears … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/13/cpuid-download-malware/
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CPUID watering hole attack spreads STX RAT malware
Threat actors compromised the CPUID website and spread STX RAT through fake CPU-Z and HWMonitor downloads. Attackers breached the website CPUID and replaced download links for CPU-Z and HWMonitor with malicious files for several hours. Users who downloaded them got infected with the STX RAT, giving attackers remote access to their systems. The short attack…
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CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads
Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT.The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00…
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GlassWorm evolves with Zig dropper to infect multiple developer tools
The GlassWorm campaign uses a Zig-based dropper hidden in a fake IDE extension to infect developer tools and compromise systems. The GlassWorm campaign, active since 2025, has evolved from malicious npm packages to large-scale supply chain attacks across GitHub, npm, and VS Code, even deploying RATs via fake browser extensions. In its latest iteration, threat…
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GlassWorm evolves with Zig dropper to infect multiple developer tools
The GlassWorm campaign uses a Zig-based dropper hidden in a fake IDE extension to infect developer tools and compromise systems. The GlassWorm campaign, active since 2025, has evolved from malicious npm packages to large-scale supply chain attacks across GitHub, npm, and VS Code, even deploying RATs via fake browser extensions. In its latest iteration, threat…
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DesckVB RAT Uses Fileless .NET Loader to Evade Detection
DesckVB RAT is emerging as a highly active and stealthy malware threat in 2026, leveraging layered obfuscation and fileless execution techniques to bypass traditional security defenses. The attack chain begins with a malicious JavaScript file that hides its true intent through complex encoding and code replication. This script copies its own logic into PowerShell and…
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STX RAT Targets Finance Sector With Advanced Stealth Tactics
STX RAT, a newly identified remote access trojan, attempted deployment in finance, showing advanced C2 and stealthy delivery methods First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/stx-rat-targets-finance-sector/
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New Phishing Campaign Exploits Google Storage to Deliver Remcos RAT
A recently observed phishing campaign is abusing Google Cloud Storage to deliver the Remcos remote access trojan (RAT), relying on trusted Google infrastructure and a signed Microsoft binary to evade traditional defenses. Attackers host a fake Google Drive login page on the legitimate domain storage.googleapis.com, making the URL appear trustworthy to both users and security…
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STX RAT Hides Remote Desktop, Steals Data to Dodge Detection
A stealthy new remote access trojan, dubbed STX RAT, that blends hidden remote desktop control with powerful infostealer capabilities while using advanced evasion and encryption techniques to stay under the radar of security tools. The operators rely on opportunistic initial access, including malicious VBScript and JScript chains that download a TAR archive containing the core payload and…
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STX RAT Hides Remote Desktop, Steals Data to Dodge Detection
A stealthy new remote access trojan, dubbed STX RAT, that blends hidden remote desktop control with powerful infostealer capabilities while using advanced evasion and encryption techniques to stay under the radar of security tools. The operators rely on opportunistic initial access, including malicious VBScript and JScript chains that download a TAR archive containing the core payload and…
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Tor-Backed ClickFix Campaign Drops Node.js RAT on Windows
Hackers are using a deceptive technique known as “ClickFix” to deliver a sophisticated Node. js-based remote access Trojan (RAT) targeting Windows users. ClickFix, which gained popularity in early 2025, tricks users into interacting with fake CAPTCHA or verification prompts. In this latest campaign, attackers lure victims into executing malicious commands that silently install malware disguised…
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Fake Installers Spread RATs, Monero Miners in Ongoing Malware Campaign
Fake software installers are being used in a long-running malware operation to drop remote access trojans (RATs), Monero cryptominers, and a new .NET implant across multiple campaigns dating back to late 2023. REF1695 relies on ISO-based fake installers that mimic legitimate software setup packages but never deliver real applications. Instead, users are guided via a…