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Malware

23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted

Authorities disrupted the Sality peer-to-peer botnet by manipulating peer lists and taking down payload URLs.

1 min read 3 views Sep 02
Malware

US charges Russian for malware attacks on 80,000 freelancers

Russian national Searzhudin Aktulaev was indicted for phishing attacks that infected 80,000 freelancers with TVRAT and DarkVNC malware between 2016 an

1 min read 3 views Sep 02
Malware

Global takedown dismantles Sality botnet infrastructure

International law enforcement and CrowdStrike disrupted the Sality P2P botnet, seizing domains and sinkholing control channels.

1 min read 3 views Sep 02
Malware

Cops, CrowdStrike disrupt Sality botnet via sinkhole

International law enforcement and CrowdStrike disrupted the 23-year-old Sality botnet, isolating infected machines via a peer-to-peer sinkhole operati

1 min read 3 views Sep 02
Malware

Breeze Comet Targets Brazilian Payment Systems

Since 2024, threat actor Breeze Comet has targeted Brazilian financial, retail, and e-commerce firms, manipulating payment systems to conduct fraudule

1 min read 3 views Sep 01
Malware

US and CrowdStrike dismantle Russian Sality botnet

U.S. officials and CrowdStrike announced the dismantling of the two-decade-old Russian hacking operation Sality, seizing domains used by the hackers.

1 min read 3 views Sep 01
Malware

13 Malicious Packagist Packages Target iPhones

Researchers found 13 malicious Composer packages on Packagist that inject JavaScript into Vietnamese streaming sites, deploying spyware on unpatched i

1 min read 4 views Sep 01
Malware

Cisco routers hijacked by China-linked Fire Ant malware

Sygnia reports China-linked Fire Ant malware now targets Cisco routers, TACACS, and Linux hosts, turning routers into surveillance points on trusted n

1 min read 3 views Sep 01
Malware

Iranian Hackers Use Fake Coding Tests to Deploy RATs

Iranian group Nimbus Manticore uses fake coding tests to deliver cross-platform RATs targeting Linux and macOS via Node.js and JavaScript.

1 min read 4 views Sep 01
Malware

TerminalFix Malware Uses Fake CAPTCHAs to Hack Windows

Microsoft discovered TerminalFix, a new ClickFix variant using fake CAPTCHAs to secretly compromise Windows PCs.

1 min read 3 views Sep 01
Malware

Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs Install TerminalFix Backdoor

TerminalFix, a ClickFix variant, uses fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to trick Windows users into running PowerShell commands that install a persistent rever

1 min read 3 views Sep 01
Malware

ClickFix Campaign Hits 31 Orgs via Polygon Blockchain

A ClickFix campaign compromised 31 organizations, using EtherHiding to update C2 servers via the Polygon blockchain.

1 min read 4 views Sep 01

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