Tag: worm
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, WeChat Worm, PaperCut Attacks, AI Espionage, and Rootkits
AI keeps showing up in the wrong places. Attackers are using it to speed up exploits, test defenses, and automate more of the job. Some models are also crossing lines on their own. That is not a great combination.The rest of the week is more familiar: old bugs still working, fresh exploit chains, exposed systems,…
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Using AI, Calif Creates Demo WeChat Exploit that Spreads Through Phone Calls
Researchers with Calif used AI to detect a security flaw in the WeChat app and then create a demo worm exploit that can be spread quickly through mobile phones. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/using-ai-calif-creates-demo-wechat-exploit-that-spreads-through-phone-calls/
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>>Zero-click<< WeChat worm could hijack accounts and spread via a single call
Researchers with security company Calif have discovered, weaponized, and privately reported to Tencent a critical vulnerability that allowed them to create … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/08/wechat-weworm-vulnerability-exploit-account-hijacking/
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WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls
Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and demonstrated it spreading among three test phones.The person being called does not have to answer or touch their phone for it to work, but the caller must already be one of their WeChat contacts.…
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THost9 Android RAT Pairs Packed Loader With ADB Worm
THost9 hides its payload and uses ADB to spread across exposed Android devices and containers First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/thost9-android-rat-packed-loader/
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Known npm Worm Returns After 111 Days and Security Scanning Still Let It Through
A known Shai-Hulud npm worm payload has resurfaced after 111 days of inactivity, raising fresh questions about the effectiveness of registry-level malware screening. The May campaign demonstrated how quickly a single compromised maintainer account can turn into a software supply-chain incident. Attackers pushed malicious versions across npm packages, including widely used visualization and frontend dependencies.…
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Rogue ScreenConnect Clients Spread Four-Stage VBScript Chain to Newly Connected Hosts
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of worm-like activity that abuses ConnectWise ScreenConnect to distribute a malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) payload to newly connected systems.According to Huntress, three unrelated incidents have been found to use diverse initial access methods, namely a Quick Assist tech-support scam, a phishing-delivered MSI installer, and a fake First seen on…
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Hijacked ScreenConnect Installs Are Spreading Malware Like a Worm, Huntress Warns
Cybersecurity firm Huntress has uncovered a wave of malicious installations of ScreenConnect, a widely used remote-support tool, that spread between machines without any further action from a victim or an attacker, a self-propagating attack chain researchers likened to a computer worm. In a blog post published this week, Huntress said its Security Operations Center (SOC)…
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Rogue ScreenConnect Clients Spread Worm-Like Malware Across Connected Windows Systems
A malicious ScreenConnect campaign in which rogue remote-access clients do more than provide attackers with hands-on control: modified clients can automatically push a multi-stage VBScript malware chain to newly connected Windows endpoints. Once deployed, the clients repeatedly spawned wscript.exe to execute four scripts 1.vbs, 2.vbs, 3.vbs, and 4.vbs from ScreenConnect-related temporary locations. The behavior is…
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Shai-Hulud’s Reach Just Grew to 469 Credential Locations. Here’s What That Means
In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environments, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling, cloud configurations, and even AI tool configs.Earlier variants of the infostealer worm only checked 189 paths. The jump says a lot. Attackers have First seen…
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OWASP Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks Explained: Why Credential Hygiene Decides the Outcome
TL;DRCredentials are the multiplier: OWASP’s Top 10 CI/CD Security Risks cover ten distinct trust failures, but exposed or overprivileged credentials (CICD-SEC-6) make nearly every other risk more dangerous once attackers gain a foothold.Attacks are accelerating: Since 2025, worms like Shai-Hulud,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/owasp-top-10-ci-cd-security-risks-explained-why-credential-hygiene-decides-the-outcome/
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Shai-Hulud Trinitite Worm Infects Popular TanStack Query npm Package to Steal Developer Secrets
A new Shai-Hulud supply-chain attack dubbed Trinitite has compromised the npm package @7nohe/openapi-react-query-codegen, a TanStack Query code-generation library with more than 150,000 weekly downloads. The malicious releases deploy an evolved Mini Shai-Hulud worm designed to steal developer, cloud, CI/CD, package-registry, Kubernetes, Vault, and source-control credentials before using recovered access to spread through additional packages. While…
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Shai-Hulud hackers: two men charged over TeamPCP’s global supply chain crime spree that hit OpenAI, and thousands more
More than 1,000 organisations, 500,000 stolen credentials, and one self-propagating worm named after a Dune sandworm – two men now face charges over TeamPCP’s global hacking spree. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/shai-hulud-hackers-charged-teampcps
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…
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Centralize Like You Mean It, Federate Like You Have To
Tags: ai, api, attack, automation, breach, cloud, compliance, control, data, detection, dns, endpoint, identity, infrastructure, network, PCI, radius, regulation, resilience, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, threat, tool, windows, worm(by Anton Chuvakin & Usman Chaudhary) Prologue: Three Years After “The End Is Nigh” Back in 2023, one of us wrote “Log Centralization: The End Is Nigh?””Š”, “Šan admittedly incomplete-thought blog with a scary premise: after 20+ years of yelling “centralize your logs!” (the earliest surviving deck is from 2003), we may be running out of…