Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Researchers found China’s Daxin rootkit and a new Stupig backdoor on a Taiwan firm’s network, suggesting a stealthy intrusion dating back to 2013. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team found Daxin running on a compromised host at a Taiwan-based subsidiary of a multinational high-tech manufacturer in 2026. Daxin is a Windows kernel-mode rootkit that Symantec first documented […]

GodDamn ransomware uses the signed PoisonX driver to disable security tools, marking a more advanced version of the Beast ransomware family. Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team found a new ransomware family called GodDamn that first appeared in the wild on May 21, 2026, and analyzed an attack that took place in early June. The group behind […]

DragonForce hid for months by routing malware traffic through Microsoft Teams infrastructure, masking C2 activity and evading network detection. DragonForce ransomware operators hit a major U.S. services firm and stayed hidden for one to two months by routing their command-and-control traffic through Microsoft’s own Teams relay servers. Symantec’s threat hunters tracked the custom backdoor they […]

Attackers spent five months silently stealing emails from a stock exchange executive’s Outlook account in a suspected espionage operation. A threat actor quietly sat inside a senior executive’s Outlook account at a major global stock exchange for roughly 150 days, from October 2025 to March 2026. Broadcom’s Symantec and Carbon Black threat-hunting team investigated the […]