Tag: worm
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DPRK Fake Job Scams Self-Propagate in ‘Contagious Interview’
A compromised developer’s repository serves as a worm-like infection vector to spread remote access Trojans (RATs) and other malware. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/dprk-fake-job-scams-self-propagate-contagious-interview
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Industrial Systems Hit by New Email-Worm Threat Wave
Email-borne worms are driving a fresh wave of incidents against industrial control systems (ICS), even as overall malware activity on these networks appears to be slowly declining. New data from Q4 2025 shows that phishing-driven distribution of the XWorm backdoor has sharply shifted the risk landscape for operational technology (OT) environments worldwide. The share of…
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Industrial Systems Hit by New Email-Worm Threat Wave
Email-borne worms are driving a fresh wave of incidents against industrial control systems (ICS), even as overall malware activity on these networks appears to be slowly declining. New data from Q4 2025 shows that phishing-driven distribution of the XWorm backdoor has sharply shifted the risk landscape for operational technology (OT) environments worldwide. The share of…
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Industrial Systems Hit by New Email-Worm Threat Wave
Email-borne worms are driving a fresh wave of incidents against industrial control systems (ICS), even as overall malware activity on these networks appears to be slowly declining. New data from Q4 2025 shows that phishing-driven distribution of the XWorm backdoor has sharply shifted the risk landscape for operational technology (OT) environments worldwide. The share of…
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PlugX USB Worm Hits Multiple Continents via DLL Sideloading
A new PlugX USB worm variant is driving fresh infection waves across several continents, using DLL sideloading and stealthy USB-based propagation to evade detection. First observed in Papua New Guinea in August 2022, the same strain resurfaced months later not only in the Pacific Rim but also in Ghana, Mongolia, Zimbabwe, and Nigeria, underscoring a…
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Q1 2026 Open Source Malware Index: Adaptive Attacks, Familiar Weaknesses
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, automation, cloud, credentials, crypto, data, github, guide, intelligence, kubernetes, linux, macOS, malicious, malware, open-source, pypi, risk, software, supply-chain, tactics, theft, tool, update, windows, worm<div cla TL;DR Sonatype identified 21,764 open source malware packages in Q1 2026, bringing the total logged since 2017 to 1,346,867. npm accounted for 75% of malicious packages this quarter. Trojans dominated, with most activity focused on credential theft, host reconnaissance, and staged payload delivery. The quarter’s defining pattern was trust abuse: attackers succeeded by…
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After fighting malware for decades, this cybersecurity veteran is now hacking drones
Mikko Hyppönen is one of the most recognizable faces of the cybersecurity industry. After fighting computer viruses, worms, and malware, for more than 35 years, he tells TechCrunch why he is now working on systems to stop killer drones. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/04/04/after-fighting-malware-for-decades-this-cybersecurity-veteran-is-now-hacking-drones/
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Bank Trojan ‘Casbaneiro’ Worms Through Latin America
Augmented Marauder’s multipronged banking-Trojan cyber campaigns are targeting Spanish speakers, evading detection, and replicating rapidly. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/bank-trojan-casbaneiro-worms-latin-america
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Trivy Hack Spreads Infostealer via Docker, Triggers Worm and Kubernetes Wiper
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious artifacts distributed via Docker Hub following the Trivy supply chain attack, highlighting the widening blast radius across developer environments.The last known clean release of Trivy on Docker Hub is 0.69.3. The malicious versions 0.69.4, 0.69.5, and 0.69.6 have since been removed from the container image library.”New image tags 0.69.5 and…
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Trivy Supply Chain Attack Triggers Self-Spreading CanisterWorm Across 47 npm Packages
The threat actors behind the supply chain attack targeting the popular Trivy scanner are suspected to be conducting follow-on attacks that have led to the compromise of a large number of npm packages with a previously undocumented self-propagating worm dubbed CanisterWorm.The name is a reference to the fact that the malware uses an ICP canister,…
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Horabot Returns in Mexico, Spreading via Phishing and Email Worm Attacks
Horabot has resurfaced in Mexico with a more complex, multi”‘stage kill chain that blends fake CAPTCHA lures, living-off-the-land scripting, and an email worm”‘style spreader to deliver a Latin American banking trojan. In this installment of the SOC Files series, our MDR team dissected a targeted Horabot campaign that we hunted a few months ago, after…
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Wikipedia hit by self-propagating JavaScript worm that vandalized pages
The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wikipedia-hit-by-self-propagating-javascript-worm-that-vandalized-pages/
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What to Expect from Iran’s Digital Counterstrike
Tags: attack, breach, cloud, communications, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, defense, espionage, exploit, extortion, finance, government, group, hacking, infrastructure, intelligence, international, iran, leak, middle-east, military, network, ransomware, risk, risk-assessment, service, tool, update, vulnerability, wormAfter the United States and Israel began a bombing campaign on Iran, leading to the decapitation of its political and military leaders, the Middle East has erupted into waves of kinetic warfare. But what should we expect about cyber? Iran has a formidable offensive cybersecurity capability and is considered one of the four most aggressive…
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The Worm Turns When the Hunter Becomes the Hunted Mass Surveillance and the Weaponization of the Data We Voluntarily Create
Explore how advancements in surveillance infrastructure and the democratization of intelligence have transformed espionage. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/the-worm-turns-when-the-hunter-becomes-the-hunted-mass-surveillance-and-the-weaponization-of-the-data-we-voluntarily-create/
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SANDWORM_MODE: The Rise of Adaptive Supply Chain Worms
<div cla Earlier this year, we asked our team where they expect open source cyberattacks to go next. Sonatype Principal Security Researcher Garrett Calpouzos shared his thoughts about how he anticipated attackers won’t simply use automation, but also abuse victims’ AI tools: First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/sandworm_mode-the-rise-of-adaptive-supply-chain-worms/
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SANDWORM_MODE: The Rise of Adaptive Supply Chain Worms
<div cla Earlier this year, we asked our team where they expect open source cyberattacks to go next. Sonatype Principal Security Researcher Garrett Calpouzos shared his thoughts about how he anticipated attackers won’t simply use automation, but also abuse victims’ AI tools: First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/03/sandworm_mode-the-rise-of-adaptive-supply-chain-worms-2/
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Shai-Hulud-style NPM worm hits CI pipelines and AI coding tools
Poisoning the AI developer interface: The campaign was specifically flagged for its direct targeting of AI coding assistants. The malware deploys a malicious Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and injects it into configurations of popular AI tools, embedding itself as a trusted component in the assistant’s environment.Once this is achieved, prompt-injection techniques can trick the…
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Shai-Hulud-Like Worm Targets Developers via npm and AI Tools
Supply chain worm mimicking Shai-Hulud malware spread via malicious npm packages, targeting AI tools has been identified by security researchers First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/shai-hulud-like-worm-devs-npm-ai/
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Malicious npm Packages Harvest Crypto Keys, CI Secrets, and API Tokens
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what they say is an active “Shai-Hulud-like” supply chain worm campaign that has leveraged a cluster of at least 19 malicious npm packages to enable credential harvesting and cryptocurrency key theft.The campaign has been codenamed SANDWORM_MODE by supply chain security company Socket. As with prior Shai-Hulud attack waves, the malicious code…
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SSH Worm Exploit Detected by DShield Sensor Using Credential Stuffing and Multi-Stage Malware
A DShield honeypot sensor recently recorded a complete compromise sequence involving a self-replicating SSH worm that exploits weak passwords to spread across Linux systems. The incident highlights how poor SSH hygiene and the use of default credentials remain among the most persistent threats to Internet-connected devices. Even in 2026, attackers continue leveraging automated credential stuffing…
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TeamPCP Turns Cloud Infrastructure into Crime Bots
The threat actor has been compromising cloud environments at scale with automated worm-like attacks on exposed services and interfaces. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/teampcp-cloud-infrastructure-crime-bots
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Shai-hulud: The Hidden Costs of Supply Chain Attacks
Recent supply chain attacks involving self-propagating worms have spread far, but the damage and long-term impact is hard to quantify. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/shai-hulud-hidden-cost-supply-chain-attacks
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TeamPCP Worm Exploits Cloud Infrastructure to Build Criminal Infrastructure
Tags: api, cloud, cybersecurity, data-breach, docker, exploit, infrastructure, kubernetes, malicious, wormCybersecurity researchers have called attention to a “massive campaign” that has systematically targeted cloud native environments to set up malicious infrastructure for follow-on exploitation.The activity, observed around December 25, 2025, and described as “worm-driven,” leveraged exposed Docker APIs, Kubernetes clusters, Ray dashboards, and Redis servers, along with the recently disclosed First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Shai-hulud: The Hidden Cost of Supply Chain Attacks
Recent supply chain attacks involving self-propagating worms have spread far, but the damage and long-term impact is hard to quantify. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/shai-hulud-hidden-cost-supply-chain-attacks
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Shai-Hulud & Co.: The software supply chain as Achilles’ heel
Tags: access, ai, application-security, attack, backdoor, ciso, cloud, credentials, cyber, github, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, kritis, kubernetes, malicious, network, nis-2, programming, risk, rust, sbom, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, wormThe polyglot supply chain attack: The most frightening prospect, however, is the convergence of these threats in a polyglot supply chain attack. Currently, security teams operate in isolation. AppSec monitors the code, CloudSec monitors the cloud, NetworkSec monitors the perimeter. A polyglot attack is designed to seamlessly break through these silos.This happens as follows: A…
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From typos to takeovers: Inside the industrialization of npm supply chain attacks
Tags: access, application-security, attack, automation, backdoor, blockchain, breach, control, credentials, cybersecurity, github, gitlab, malicious, malware, phishing, radius, risk, supply-chain, threat, update, wormFrom typo traps to legitimate backdoors: For years, typosquatting defined the npm threat model. Attackers published packages with names just close enough to popular libraries, such as “lodsash,” “expres,” “reacts,” and waited for automation or human error to do the rest. The impact was usually limited, and remediation straightforward.That model began to break in 2025.Instead…
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 79
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter VVS Discord Stealer Using Pyarmor for Obfuscation and Detection Evasion A Broken System Fueling Botnets Malicious NPM Packages Deliver NodeCordRAT Boto-Cor-de-Rosa campaign reveals Astaroth WhatsApp-based worm activity in Brazil CNCERT: Risk Warning Regarding…
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ZombieAgent ChatGPT attack shows persistent data leak risks of AI agents
Worm-like propagation: The email attack even has worming capabilities, as the malicious prompts could instruct ChatGPT to scan the inbox, extract addresses from other email messages, exfiltrate those addresses to the attackers using the URL trick, and send similar poisoned messages to those addresses as well.If the victim is the employee of an organization that…