A sophisticated social‑engineering campaign is leveraging AI‑generated YouTube narrators, ghost accounts across multiple platforms, and manipulated reputation signals to distribute a Rust‑based clipboard hijacker that steals cryptocurrency by replacing wallet addresses on victims’ clipboards. The operation centers on a WordPress…
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Modular Phishing Kit Uses GitHub Pages to Steal Payment Card Details and Passwords
A sophisticated, long-running phishing operation has evolved into a serverless, modular campaign that weaponizes GitHub Pages to harvest payment card data, credentials, and customer identifiers from banking customers in Mexico. The campaign’s architecture centers on a phishing kit containing a…
ClickFix Attack Deploys Potemkin Loader, RMMProject RAT, and EtherRAT Across 11 Hosts
A sophisticated ClickFix social engineering campaign in May 2026 triggered a full hands-on-keyboard intrusion spanning 11 hosts, deploying a novel trio of malicious tools: Potemkin loader, RMMProject RAT, and EtherRAT. The attack chain began when the user visited a compromised…
Sapphire Sleet macOS Malware Abuses curl-to-osascript Execution for Multi-Stage Payload Delivery
Sapphire Sleet’s latest macOS campaign uses crafted .scpt AppleScript lures that pipe curl output directly to osascript, enabling a compact, multi-stage payload chain that executes entirely within Script Editor and evades many built‑in macOS protections. The infection begins with a…
Hackers Target npm Ecosystem by Compromising 140+ Mastra Packages
A large-scale software supply chain attack has compromised more than 140 npm packages under the widely used Mastra namespace, exposing developers, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise environments to a stealthy cross-platform infostealer. The campaign, uncovered by the Socket Research Team on…
Google Cloud Vertex AI Vulnerability Lets Attackers Take Over and Poison AI Models
A critical vulnerability in Google Cloud’s Vertex AI has been discovered, allowing attackers to hijack machine learning model uploads, poison artifacts, and achieve cross-tenant remote code execution (RCE) without any prior access to the victim’s environment. Dubbed “Pickle in the…
Attackers Exploit Cloud Logging Platforms to Hide Malicious Activity
Attackers are increasingly targeting cloud logging platforms to evade detection and maintain persistent visibility into compromised environments. The report highlights how critical services such as AWS CloudTrail and Google Cloud Logging, designed to provide comprehensive audit trails, are being actively…
SprySOCKS Windows Backdoor Uses Kernel Driver to Hide Processes, Files, and Network Traffic
Windows variants of SprySOCKS, a backdoor long associated with FishMonger (aka Earth Lusca/TAG-22), expanding a toolset that was until now Linux-only. The two Windows builds internally labelled WIN_DRV and WIN_PLUS preserve the original SprySOCKS protocol and command set while adding…
Steam Workshop Malware Campaign Uses Wallpaper Engine to Steal Accounts and Infect Gamers
A sophisticated malware campaign has been abusing Steam Workshop’s sharing model to distribute backdoors, infostealers and crypto miners hidden inside Wallpaper Engine packages, primarily targeting gamers in China and Russia. The campaign exploits Wallpaper Engine’s “application” wallpaper type essentially standalone…
7-Year-Old OpenBSD Security Flaw Exposes Systems to Full PAP Authentication Bypass
A significant authentication flaw has been discovered in the PPP stack of OpenBSD, allowing attackers to bypass the Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) validation and gain unauthorized network access. Although this vulnerability was patched in June 2026, it originated from legacy…
CISA Issues Alert on Oracle PeopleSoft Vulnerability Exploited by Ransomware Groups
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert regarding the active exploitation of a critical vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools, identified as CVE-2026-35273. This vulnerability, categorized as CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function), allows…
Hackers Inject Malicious JavaScript Into WordPress Sites to Deploy ErrTraffic ClickFix Lures
Hackers are injecting malicious JavaScript into compromised WordPress sites to deploy ErrTraffic-powered ClickFix lures, a campaign that achieved nearly 60% victim conversion rates an unprecedented figure in malware ecosystems. Threat actors exploit WordPress vulnerabilities to inject a single line of…
JetBrains Plugin Security Alert: 70,000+ Installs Linked to AI Key Theft
A coordinated supply chain attack targeting JetBrains IDE users has exposed over 70,000 developers to silent credential theft. The campaign involves at least 15 malicious plugins distributed via the JetBrains Marketplace, masquerading as AI-powered coding assistants built on models such…
Rokarolla Malware Abuses Android Accessibility Services to Steal Banking Credentials
Rokarolla, a new Android banking trojan named after its Command-and-Control (C2) infrastructure, that combines sophisticated social engineering, broad permissions abuse, and a flexible command set to harvest credentials from 217 targeted banking and cryptocurrency apps. Distributed via malicious websites that…
Critical Chrome Flaws Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code – Update Immediately
Google has released an urgent Chrome security update addressing multiple critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. The update, now rolling out to users globally, upgrades Chrome to version 149.0.7827.155/.156 for Windows and macOS…
Malware Uses Deno Permission Flags to Run Commands and Proxy Internal Network Traffic
A recent intrusion demonstrates how threat actors are shifting toward scripting runtimes to evade traditional detection: attackers delivered a modular Remote Access Trojan (RAT) built on Deno, using social engineering to install a multi-process JavaScript implant that executes commands and…
Fortra Access Manager Security Flaw Exposes Systems to Command Injection
Fortra has reported a critical command injection vulnerability in its Core Privileged Access Manager (BoKS) platform, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. This could potentially lead to a full system compromise. Tracked as CVE-2026-9862…
NVIDIA NeMo Security Flaw Exposes Systems to Command Injection Attacks
NVIDIA has disclosed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in its NeMo Framework, including a critical command injection flaw that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. These issues, outlined in the June 2026 security bulletin, impact NeMo versions up…
Critical LiteLLM Flaw Allows Authentication Bypass via Host Header Injection
A critical security vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-49468 has been disclosed in the LiteLLM framework, exposing deployments to authentication bypass attacks via Host header injection. The issue, published in the GitHub Advisory Database and classified under GHSA-4xpc-pv4p-pm3w, affects all LiteLLM versions…
Silent Ransom Group Targets US Legal Firms With Voice Phishing and Data Theft Extortion
A concentrated data theft extortion campaign by UNC3753 also reported as Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and Silent Ransom Group targeting dozens of U.S. professional, legal, and financial services firms. The cluster’s hallmark is fast, human-centric intrusions that combine voice phishing…