Termite ransomware breaches linked to ClickFix CastleRAT attacks

Ransomware threat actors tracked as Velvet Tempest are using the ClickFix technique and legitimate Windows utilities to deploy the DonutLoader malware and the CastleRAT backdoor.
IEEE

Toward Efficient Deobfuscation via Large Language Models

Abstract: Obfuscation modifies code structure to impede reverse engineering and is widely used to protect intellectual property and evade malware detection. However, existing deobfuscation techniques ...
CSOonline

Contagious Interview turns VS Code into an attack vector

Threat actors behind the campaign are abusing Microsoft Visual Studio Code’s trusted workflows to execute and persist malicious code. Threat actors behind the long-running Contagious Interview ...
The New York Times

White House Posts False Jan. 6 Narrative on Riot’s 5th Anniversary

A new web page on the official White House site blames the Capitol Police and Democrats for the pro-Trump mob riot, absolving the president of responsibility and calling participants “innocent.” By ...
IEEE

TransAST: A Machine Translation-Based Approach for Obfuscated Malicious JavaScript Detection

Abstract: As an essential part of the website, JavaScript greatly enriches its functions. At the same time, JavaScript has become the most common attack payload on malicious websites. Although ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

New BeaverTail Malware Variant Linked to Lazarus Group

A newly observed variant of the BeaverTail malware has been tied to hackers associated with North Korea. The findings come from Darktrace’s latest The State of Cybersecurity report, which links ...
financefeeds

Hackers explotan biblioteca JavaScript para implementar drenadores de billeteras criptográficas

Los hackers tienen Explotado a flaw in the React JavaScript library to inject code that drains crypto wallets onto websites, primarily on criptomoneda platforms. The React team released a patch on ...
financefeeds

Hackers Exploit JavaScript Library to Deploy Crypto Wallet Drainers

Hackers have exploited a flaw in the React JavaScript library to inject code that drains crypto wallets onto websites, primarily on cryptocurrency platforms. The React team released a patch on ...
CoinTelegraph

Hackers are exploiting a JavaScript library to plant crypto drainers

The React team published a fix on Dec. 3 and advises anyone using the react-server-dom-webpack, react-server-dom-parcel, and react-server-dom-turbopack, to upgrade immediately. There has been a recent ...
Bleeping Computer

North Korean hackers exploit React2Shell flaw in EtherRAT malware attacks

A new malware implant called EtherRAT, deployed in a recent React2Shell attack, runs five separate Linux persistence mechanisms and leverages Ethereum smart contracts for communication with the ...
The Hacker News

Experts Confirm JS#SMUGGLER Uses Compromised Sites to Deploy NetSupport RAT

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign dubbed JS#SMUGGLER that has been observed leveraging compromised websites as a distribution vector for a remote access trojan named ...