Microsoft

GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...
Developer Tech

Socket: PyPI and npm payment SDK malware compromises CI/CD

According to Socket, malicious payment SDK packages on npm and PyPI are harvesting developer credentials and CI/CD ...
The Hacker News

AI Coding Agents Found Triggering Endpoint Security Rules Built to Catch Attackers

Sophos says Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex triggered Windows endpoint rules for credential access, LOLBin downloads, and ...
techtimes

First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...

ESET Threat Report: AI boosts cyber attackers’ efficiency

ESET Research has released its H1 2026 Threat Report with statistics from December 2025 through May 2026.ClickFix – a social engineering ...
Android

Malware-as-a-Service: RedWing Malware Lets Hackers Rent Access into Your Android Phone

Researchers at Zimperium have uncovered RedWing, a new Android malware-as-a-service sold through Telegram with subscription tiers, a support bot, and how-to videos. Once installed, it can steal ...
Dark Reading

'BusySnake' Infostealer Slithers Into Critical Infrastructure Networks

A threat group researchers call "Armored Likho" has gained access to government agencies and electrical power entities in ...
CSO Online

This AI agent autonomously hacked a network, adapted on the fly, and demanded a ransom

JadePuffer exploited a vulnerable Langflow server, harvested credentials, moved laterally, and encrypted more than 1,300 ...
Tech Times

New APT Group Hits Power Grids in Three Countries with AI-Crafted Malware

Armored Likho BusySnake Stealer, a Python-based infostealer first disclosed by Kaspersky, is actively targeting government ...
The Hacker News

Armored Likho Targets Government Agencies, Power Sector with BusySnake Stealer

Kaspersky says the attacks use phishing, GitHub-hosted payloads, CVE-2025-9491 LNK abuse, and Go2Tunnel-based tunneling.
IEEE

Machine Learning-Powered Malware Detection in Encrypted IoT Traffic

Abstract: The exponential growth of encrypted network traffic in IoT ecosystems has created a critical challenge: maintaining privacy while enabling effective malware detection. This paper presents a ...
Bleeping Computer

ChocoPoc malware delivered via trojanized exploits on GitHub

Multiple weaponized proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits on GitHub delivered a Python-based remote access trojan (RAT) called ChocoPoC that can execute commands and steal sensitive data. However, ChocoPoC ...