Tag: rat
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MacSync Stealer RAT Uses Fake Claude Guides to Steal Passwords and Crypto Wallets
A newly disclosed macOS malware campaign dubbed MacSync weaponizes fake Claude AI installation guides to deploy a six-stage stealer and remote access trojan. Documented by Huntress, the kit targets browser credentials, keychain secrets, and cryptocurrency wallets. The attack begins when victims search Google for >>how to install Claude on a Mac<< and click a sponsored…
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BlackTech APT Uses New BlueShell Linux Backdoor in Attacks on Japanese Organizations
BlackTech, a long-running China-aligned APT group, has adopted a new Linux backdoor built on the BlueShell open-source RAT to conduct post-intrusion operations against Japanese organizations, signaling ongoing toolchain evolution and focused targeting of enterprise Linux environments. Originally published on GitHub with Chinese-language documentation, BlueShell has seen limited but consistent abuse by China-based threat actors, including…
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Researchers Expose Flying Eagle Criminal Ecosystem Behind Fake Chinese Police App
Researchers linked the Flying Eagle Android RAT to fake police apps, uncovering 170 servers in a growing cybercrime ecosystem. Hunt.io researchers and independent journalist NetAskari started with a fraudulent Android app impersonating a Chinese Provincial Public Security Bureau service and ended up mapping a sprawling criminal ecosystem built around a leaked Android RAT framework called…
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MedusaHVNC Trojan Creates Hidden Desktops to Hijack Browsers and Steal Data
MedusaHVNC RAT uses hidden Windows desktops to remotely control browsers, steal data, and evade detection through legitimate system features. Windows has always supported hidden desktops as a legitimate feature, useful for specialized software that needs a workspace the user never touches. It’s a niche capability most people never think about, buried deep in how the…
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SectopRAT Gives Attackers Remote Access to Passwords, Credit Cards, Cookies and Corporate Files
SectopRAT is at the center of a highly targeted malvertising campaign abusing Anthropic’s Claude platform to deliver a stealthy, HVNC”‘enabled RAT that gives attackers deep, persistent access to victims’ passwords, credit cards, cookies and corporate files. The artifact masqueraded as a genuine Claude Desktop installer but redirected victims to claude.ai.download-app[.]us and then to downloading-api.it[.]com/html/claude/win, where…
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Lampion Malware Targets Portuguese Users With Multistage Phishing and 750MB RAT Payload
A highly targeted Lampion malware campaign abusing localized phishing lures to compromise users in Portugal. The activity reflects a continued evolution of the Brazilian-origin banking trojan, first documented in 2019, which has consistently focused on Portuguese-speaking victims rather than domestic Brazilian targets. In the latest campaign, attackers leverage convincing financial-themed phishing emails masquerading as routine…
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Chaos ransomware deploys browser-based msaRAT to evade network detection
Cisco Talos uncovered msaRAT, a Chaos ransomware RAT that hides C2 traffic by routing it through Chrome or Edge using the Chrome DevTools Protocol. Cisco Talos disclosed msaRAT, a Rust-based remote access trojan attributed to the Chaos ransomware group that routes its entire command-and-control channel through the victim’s own Chrome or Edge browser. The malware…
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North Korean Hackers Use Fake Job Interviews to Deploy PylangGhost and GolangGhost RATs
North Korea’s Famous Chollima threat group, also tracked as Wagemole, is actively running a sophisticated cyberespionage campaign dubbed ClickFake Interview. The operation targets cryptocurrency and Web3 professionals, tricking candidates into executing terminal commands that infect their devices with platform-specific Remote Access Trojans (RATs): PylangGhost on Windows and GolangGhost on macOS. Detailed analysis by the SOCRadar…
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Attackers Combo Up Evasion Tactics for BEC Phishing
The TFF Trap uses fileless techniques and loaders with low detection rates to deploy various RATs and stealers, including Agent Tesla, Remcos, XWorm, and Best Private Logger. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/endpoint-security/attackers-combo-evasion-tactics-bec-phishing
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Seven Malicious Vite npm Packages Use Blockchain C2 to Deliver a RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of seven malicious npm packages targeting the Vite frontend tooling ecosystem as part of a software supply chain attack.The malicious package campaign, codenamed ViteVenom by Checkmarx, marks an expansion of ChainVeil, which was observed using an “unprecedented” four-tier blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) infrastructure spanning Tron, First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Hackers Hide Lua Loaders in Fake TTF Files to Deploy Remcos, XWorm, and Agent Tesla
Hackers are increasingly abusing trusted file formats and lightweight scripting environments to evade detection, with a newly observed campaign leveraging Lua-based loaders. Disguised as TrueType (.ttf) font files to deploy commodity malware, including Remcos RAT, Agent Tesla, XWorm, and Snake Keylogger variants. The campaign impersonates legitimate businesses and brands in email lures, often using payment-themed…
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New Starland RAT Steals Browser Credentials and Scans for Over 40 Crypto Wallets
A financially motivated, Russian-speaking threat actor tracked as UAT-11795, orchestrating a large-scale campaign since at least June 2025. A sophisticated Python-based remote access trojan dubbed “Starland RAT,” alongside a stealthy in-memory PowerShell implant known as the “WLDR agent.” The operation targets users across the United States and parts of Europe, with a primary focus on…
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New Russian Campaign Uses Fake Webex and Zoom Installers to Deploy Starland RAT
Russian-speaking UAT-11795 spreads trojanized Zoom, Webex, and MobaXterm installers to deliver Starland RAT and the WLDR memory-only implant. Cisco Talos researchers published a detailed technical report on July 16 disclosing UAT-11795, a financially motivated, Russian-speaking threat actor that has been running a malware campaign against users in the United States and Europe since at least…
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Phishing Campaign Hides Lua Loader as TrueType Font File
Global phishing campaign disguised a Lua loader as a font file to deploy RATs and infostealers First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/phishing-lua-loader-truetype-font/
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UAT-11795 deploys novel Starland RAT and bespoke WLDR C2 implant in financially motivated campaign
Cisco Talos is disclosing UAT-11795, a sophisticated, Russian-speaking, financially motivated adversary that has been conducting a malicious campaign targeting users in the U.S. and Europe since at least June 2025. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-11795-deploys-novel-starland-rat-and-bespoke-wldr-c2-implant-in-financially-motivated-campaign/
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Miasma Worm Returns as RAT-First npm Attack With Automatic Propagation Disabled
Four AsyncAPI packages previously affected by the Shai-Hulud: The Second Coming campaign have been compromised again, with new malicious releases delivering a RAT-focused build of the Miasma worm. The impacted versions are @asyncapi/generator 3.3.13.3.13.3.1, @asyncapi/generator-components 0.7.10.7.10.7.1, @asyncapi/generator-helpers 1.1.11.1.11.1.1, and @asyncapi/specs 6.11.26.11.26.11.2 and 6.11.2−alpha.16.11.2-alpha.16.11.2−alpha.1. Unlike the prior Miasma activity, the AsyncAPI packages do not use malicious…
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Silver Fox group uses new Rust-based MODBEACON RAT
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/silver-fox-group-uses-new-rust-based-modbeacon-rat
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Exposed Banana RAT Infrastructure Reveals Payload Generator and Obfuscator Tooling
A publicly indexed server at 198[.]245[.]53[.]26, discovered via Shodan, exposed more than simple staging files it revealed an active payload-generation backend and obfuscation tooling tied to two distinct Banana RAT branches. The host served static stages (st.txt, payload.php) and a FastAPI-based builder (servidor_completo_pool.py) plus an ofuscador.py helper. Enabling researchers to compare an older ETW-themed branch…
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Indian Income Tax Department Phishing Lure Deploys Gh0st RAT and AsyncRAT Implants
A targeted phishing campaign impersonating the Indian Income Tax Department has been observed delivering a sophisticated, six-stage infection chain that culminates in two in-memory remote-access implants: a Gh0st RAT derivative and a Quasar/AsyncRAT-family .NET payload. Victims are funneled to fake government pages that mimic Ministry of Finance and Income Tax branding and are pressured with…
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New ChocoPoC RAT Targets Vulnerability Researchers via Fake PoC Exploit Repos
Attackers are hiding a data-stealing trojan inside fake exploit code aimed at the people who hunt bugs for a living. The malware, called ChocoPoC, travels in Python proof-of-concept (PoC) repositories on GitHub that claim to exploit hot new CVEs.Run one, and it quietly lifts your saved passwords, browser cookies, and files, then hands the attacker…
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Glitch SPY RAT Abuses Android Accessibility Service for Full Device Control
An emerging Android remote-access trojan platform, tracked as Glitch SPY, that leverages a fraudulent Polish apartment-rental website to trick victims into sideloading a malicious APK. The dropper, identified as the Brokewell Android Loader, presents a plausible rental-app experience while secretly installing Glitch SPY and coercing users to enable Android Accessibility Service an abuse that gives…
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Japan Hotel Industry Targeted With TONResolver RAT and Guest Complaint Phishing Emails
Japan’s hotel sector is the latest target of a sophisticated phishing and remote-access trojan (RAT) campaign that leverages guest-complaint lures and an unusual resilience mechanism: a TON blockchainbased dead-drop resolver. Beginning in late May 2026, attackers sent highly targeted emails to Booking.com partner properties in Japan with subject lines such as “é‡è¦ï¼šã‚²ã‚¹ãƒˆæ»žåœ¨ãƒ¬ãƒ“ューä¾é ¼” (Important: Guest Stay…
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Telegram-Based Millenium RAT Campaign Infects 60,000 Devices
Group-IB says Millenium RAT, now rewritten in C++, has hit 62,289 devices in 160+ countries First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/millenium-rat-telegram-60000/
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Millenium RAT Uses Base64 and XOR Configuration to Hide Telegram C2 Settings
Millenium RAT version 4.* exposes a compact but potent evolution: the malware has migrated from .NET to native C++, while retaining a stealthy Telegram-based command-and-control (C2) model that requires no bespoke server infrastructure. The sample set and telemetry analyzed by Group-IB show the RAT embeds its entire configuration inside an RCDATA resource, masks that configuration…
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Woodgnat Hackers Use Mistic RAT to Broker Access for Ransomware Gangs
Woodgnat Hackers use Backdoor.Mistic, a stealthy RAT, to let brokers compromise networks and sell entry points to ransomware groups, putting firms at risk. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/woodgnat-hackers-mistic-rat-access-ransomware-gangs/
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Fake npm Packages Impersonate PostCSS Tool to Steal Chrome Passwords
JFrog warns of malicious npm packages that mimic PostCSS tooling, drop a Windows RAT, and target Chrome-stored passwords through a staged infection setup route. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/fake-npm-packages-postcss-tool-steal-chrome-password/
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Lookalike npm Package Hides a Multi-Stage Windows RAT
JFrog found an npm package impersonating postcss-selector-parser to drop a multi-stage Windows RAT First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/lookalike-npm-package-postcss/
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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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Multi-Stage Steganographic Loader Deploys Remcos RAT and Multiple Infostealers Globally
A suspicious file named “GST Debit Note Apr_26.com,” which triggered a deeper investigation and revealed a polished, multi-stage steganographic loader delivering Remcos RAT and multiple infostealers across a global phishing campaign. The initial sample arrived as an archive attachment and unpacked to a 32-bit .NET executable that was unsigned and packed, masquerading as a legitimate…