In June 2026, Kaspersky observed a malware campaign distributing malicious VBScript files through direct messages in WhatsApp. The campaign affected users across multiple countries and territories, including Malaysia, Brazil, India, Mexico, Singapore, UK, Spain, Taiwan, Australia, Russia and Vietnam, with the highest number of victims observed in Malaysia. At the time of writing this article, the campaign is still active.
Analysis shows that the campaign primarily targets users of WhatsApp Desktop and WhatsApp Web. The threat actor uses deceptive file names masquerading as business and financial documents to persuade recipients to download and execute the attachment.
Read more…
Source: Kaspersky
Sign up for the Cyber Security Review Newsletter
The latest cyber security news and insights delivered right to your inbox
Related:
- DarkCloud Stealer: Comprehensive Analysis of a New Attack Chain That Employs AutoIt
May 14, 2025
In January 2025, Unit 42 researchers identified a series of attacks distributing DarkCloud Stealer. The latest attack chain incorporated AutoIt to evade detection and used a file-sharing server to host the malware. This article explores the chain of events from these recent campaigns and analyzes the characteristics of these attacks. DarkCloud employs multi-stage payloads and obfuscated ...
- M&S warns shoppers are at risk from scammers after cyber attack
May 14, 2025
Marks & Spencer has warned shoppers to be on the lookout for scam calls and emails after hackers stole customer data from its systems. The retailer is this week writing to customers to alert them that personal data have been taken by cyber criminals, including partial credit card details, contact information, dates of birth and order ...
- Earth Ammit Disrupts Drone Supply Chains Through Coordinated Multi-Wave Attacks in Taiwan
May 13, 2025
In July 2024, Trend Micro disclosed the TIDRONE campaign, in which threat actors targeted Taiwan’s military and satellite industries. During their investigation, Trend Micro researchers discovered that multiple compromised entities were using the same enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. This led the researchers to engage with the ERP vendor, through which they uncovered additional details that ...
- Horabot Unleashed: A Stealthy Phishing Threat
May 12, 2025
In April, FortiGuard Labs observed a threat actor using phishing emails with malicious HTML files to spread Horabot, malware that primarily targets Spanish-speaking users. It is known for using crafted emails that impersonate invoices or financial documents to trick victims into opening malicious attachments and can steal email credentials, harvest contact lists, and install banking ...
- Mitel Releases Security Advisory for Mitel SIP Phones
May 12, 2025
Mitel has released security advisory addressing two vulnerabilities in Mitel SIP Phones including Mitel 6800 Series, 6900 Series, 6900w Series and 6970 Conference Unit. CVE-2025-47188 has a CVSSv3 base score of 9.8 and is a ‘command injection’ vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to inject and execute arbitrary commands on the device. Exploitation could lead ...
- Marbled Dust leverages zero-day in Output Messenger for regional espionage
May 12, 2025
Since April 2024, the threat actor that Microsoft Threat Intelligence tracks as Marbled Dust has been observed exploiting user accounts that have not applied fixes to a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-27920) in the messaging app Output Messenger, a multiplatform chat software. These exploits have resulted in collection of related user data from targets in Iraq. Microsoft Threat ...