Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package
Microsoft says GigaWiper combines at least 3 malware families into one modular tool
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Microsoft says GigaWiper combines at least 3 malware families into one modular tool
Unit 42 says attackers are posing as helpdesk staff and persuading employees to hand over remote control before dropping EtherRAT trojan
200+ C2 servers linked to StealC and Amadey shut down
Infosec buffs say Windows users could have been infected with a nasty trojan, while Mac users got off lightly
Custom malware routed communications through legitimate Microsoft services, making malicious activity look like routine corporate collaboration
'Thousands' of US victims, including 12+ machines owned and operated by Redmond
Where it’s been well and truly forked, seemingly without Microsoft’s code locker noticing
Coming in cold with custom Snow malware
Coming in cold with custom Snow malware A previously unknown threat group using tried-and-tested social engineering tactics - Microsoft Teams chat invitations and helpdesk staff impersonation - is also using custom malware in its data-stealing attacks, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group.…
Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well' North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, according to Microsoft.…
Crooks tweak familiar copy-paste ruse so that victims run malicious commands themselves A new twist on the long-running ClickFix scam is now tricking Windows users into launching Windows Terminal and pasting malware into it themselves – handing the credential-stealing Lumma infostealer the keys to their browser vault.…
Think before you download OpenClaw, the AI agent that can manage just about anything, is risky all by itself, but now fake installers for it are wreaking havoc. Users who searched Bing’s AI results for “OpenClaw Windows” were directed to a malicious GitHub repository that delivered information stealers and GhostSocks onto their machines.…
Crims hope for payday from malicious payloads rather than stealing access tokens Microsoft has warned organizations about ongoing OAuth abuse scams that use phishing emails and URL redirects to infect victims' machines with malware and take over their devices.…
Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed malicious repositories disguised as legitimate projects, according to Microsoft, which said a limited set of those repos were directly tied to observed compromises.…
Too slow react-ion time Baddies are exploiting a critical bug in React Native's Metro development server to deliver malware to both Windows and Linux machines, and yet the in-the-wild attacks still haven't received the "broad public acknowledgement" that they should, according to security researchers.…
Phishers posing as Booking.com use panic-inducing blue screens to bypass security controls Russia-linked hackers are sneaking malware into European hotels and other hospitality outfits by tricking staff into installing it themselves through fake Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) crashes.…
Security boffins warn flaw is now being used for ransomware attacks against live networks Microsoft says attackers have already compromised "several hundred machines across a diverse set of organizations" via the React2Shell flaw, using the access to execute code, deploy malware, and, in some cases, deliver ransomware.…
Exploit hasn't been picked up by any malware detection engines, CEO tells The Reg A Microsoft zero-day vulnerability that allows an unprivileged user to crash the Windows Remote Access Connection Manager (RasMan) service now has a free, unofficial patch - with no word as to when Redmond plans to release an official one - along with a working exploit circulating online.…
And some are still active in the Microsoft Edge store A seven-year malicious browser extension campaign infected 4.3 million Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users with malware, including backdoors and spyware sending people's data to servers in China. And, according to Koi researchers, five of the extensions with more than 4 million installs are still live in the Edge marketplace.…
Poisoned PNGs contain malicious code A fresh wave of ClickFix attacks is using fake Windows update screens to trick victims into downloading infostealer malware.…