- GoldenEye Dog(APT-Q-27) gang’s recent use of “Silver Fox” Trojan stealing activities
June 6, 2025
GoldenEyeDog (tracked internally as APT-Q-27 by Qi’anxin) is a hacking group targeting people involved in gaming and dog-pushing in Southeast Asia, as well as the overseas Chinese community, with a range of business activities including remote control, mining, DDoS attacks, etc. It is related to a larger attack group tracked by Qi’anxin, the Miuuti Group. The ...
- Chasing Eddies: New Rust- based InfoStealer used in CAPTCHA campaigns
May 30, 2025
Elastic Security Labs has uncovered a novel Rust-based infostealer distributed via Fake CAPTCHA campaigns. This malware is hosted on multiple adversary-controlled web properties. This campaign leverages deceptive CAPTCHA verification pages that trick users into executing a malicious PowerShell script, which ultimately deploys the infostealer, harvesting sensitive data such as credentials, browser information, and cryptocurrency wallet details. ...
- Deep Dive into a Dumped Malware without a PE Header
May 29, 2025
This analysis is part of an incident investigation led by the FortiGuard Incident Response Team. Fortiguard Incident Response Team discovered malware that had been running on a compromised machine for several weeks. The threat actor had executed a batch of scripts and PowerShell to run the malware in a Windows process. Although obtaining the original malware ...
- Zanubis in motion: Tracing the active evolution of the Android banking malware
May 28, 2025
Zanubis is a banking Trojan for Android that emerged in mid-2022. Since its inception, it has targeted banks and financial entities in Peru, before expanding its objectives to virtual cards and crypto wallets. The main infection vector of Zanubis is impersonating legitimate Peruvian Android applications and then misleading the user into enabling the accessibility permissions. Once ...
- Mysterious hacking group Careto was run by the Spanish government
May 23, 2025
More than a decade ago, researchers at antivirus company Kaspersky identified suspicious internet traffic of what they thought was a known government-backed group, based on similar targeting and its phishing techniques. Soon, the researchers realized they had found a much more advanced hacking operation that was targeting the Cuban government, among others. Eventually the researchers were ...
- Europol and Microsoft disrupt world’s largest infostealer Lumma
May 21, 2025
Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre has worked with Microsoft to disrupt Lumma Stealer (“Lumma”), the world’s most significant infostealer threat. This joint operation targeted the sophisticated ecosystem that allowed criminals to exploit stolen information on a massive scale. Europol coordinated with law enforcement in Europe to ensure action was taken, leveraging intelligence provided by Microsoft. Between 16 ...
- Cocospy stalkerware apps go offline after data breach
May 19, 2025
A trio of phone surveillance apps, which was caught spying on millions of people’s phones earlier this year, has gone offline. Cocospy, Spyic, and Spyzie were three near-identical but differently branded stalkerware apps that allowed the person planting one of the apps on a target’s phone access to their personal data — including their messages, photos, ...
- 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 ...
- Cyber Criminal Proxy Services Exploiting End of Life Routers
May 7, 2025
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is issuing this announcement to inform individuals and businesses about proxy services taking advantage of end of life routers that are susceptible to vulnerabilities. When a hardware device is end of life, the manufacturer no longer sells the product and is not actively supporting the hardware, which also means ...
- Lampion Is Back With ClickFix Lures
May 6, 2025
Unit 42 researchers recently uncovered a highly focused malicious campaign targeting dozens of Portuguese organizations, particularly in the government, finance and transportation sectors. This campaign was orchestrated by the threat actors behind Lampion malware, an infostealer that focuses on sensitive banking information. This malware family has been active since at least 2019. During our investigation, we ...
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