Attackers leveraged .NET assemblies with bitmap resources to conceal remote access trojans (RATs) in a recent malspam campaign, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 reported Friday. Unit 42 researchers discovered RATs, including Agent Tesla and Remcos RAT, as well as the XLoader infostealer, hidden in otherwise benign 32-bit .NET files distributed via email and labeled as … Read more
May 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three malicious Go modules that include obfuscated code to fetch next-stage payloads that can irrevocably overwrite a Linux system’s primary disk and render it unbootable. The names of the packages are listed below – github[.]com/truthfulpharm/prototransform github[.]com/blankloggia/go-mcp github[.]com/steelpoor/tlsproxy “Despite appearing legitimate, these modules contained … Read more
Apr 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Supply Chain Attack Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered malicious libraries in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to steal sensitive information. Two of the packages, bitcoinlibdbfix and bitcoinlib-dev, masquerade as fixes for recent issues detected in a legitimate Python module called bitcoinlib, according to ReversingLabs. A third package … Read more
Mar 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Malware The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of a new campaign that targets the defense sectors with Dark Crystal RAT (aka DCRat). The campaign, detected earlier this month, has been found to target both employees of enterprises of the defense-industrial complex and individual representatives of the … Read more
Mar 15, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Supply Chain Security Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a malicious campaign targeting users of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository with bogus libraries masquerading as “time” related utilities, but harboring hidden functionality to steal sensitive data such as cloud access tokens. Software supply chain security firm ReversingLabs said it … Read more