Google Confirms Gmail Warning – 3 Billion Users Must Now Act

Google has confirmed another attack on Gmail users that combines inherent vulnerabilities in the platform with devious social engineering. The net result is a flurry of headlines and viral social media posts followed by an urgent platform update. Google’s security Read More …

FBI Warns of Scammers Impersonating the IC3

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warns the public about an ongoing fraud scheme where criminal scammers are impersonating FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) employees to deceive and defraud individuals. Between December 2023 and February 2025, the FBI received Read More …

IronHusky updates the forgotten MysterySnail RAT to target Russia and Mongolia

Day after day, threat actors create new malware to use in cyberattacks. Each of these new implants is developed in its own way, and as a result gets its own destiny – while the use of some malware families is Read More …

Cascading Shadows: An Attack Chain Approach to Avoid Detection and Complicate Analysis

In December 2024, Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers uncovered an attack chain that employs distinct, multi-layered stages to deliver malware like Agent Tesla variants, Remcos RAT or XLoader. Attackers increasingly rely on such complex delivery mechanisms to evade detection, bypass Read More …

Hi, robot: Half of all internet traffic now automated

Traffic from “bad bots”—those created with malicious intent—first surpassed good bot traffic in 2016, Imperva’s research said, and it’s been getting worse. Bad bots comprised 37% of internet traffic in 2024, up from 32% the year prior. Good bots accounted Read More …

Chinese police put 3 U.S. operatives on wanted list over cyberattacks

Police authorities in Harbin, in northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, said on Tuesday that they are pursuing three operatives affiliated with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) over suspected cyberattacks against China. The Harbin public security bureau said that the three Read More …

Slow Pisces Targets Developers With Coding Challenges and Introduces New Customized Python Malware

Slow Pisces (aka Jade Sleet, TraderTraitor, PUKCHONG) is a North Korean state-sponsored threat group primarily focused on generating revenue for the DPRK regime, typically by targeting large organizations in the cryptocurrency sector. This article analyzes their campaign that we believe Read More …

BPFDoor’s Hidden Controller Used Against Asia, Middle East Targets

The stealthy rootkit-like malware known as BPFDoor (detected as Backdoor.Linux.BPFDOOR) is a backdoor with strong stealth capabilities, most of them related to its use of Berkeley Packet Filtering (BPF). In a previous article, Trend Micro researchers covered how BPFDoor and Read More …

Suspected Kimsuky (APT-Q-2) attacks South Korean companies

Kimsuky, alias Mystery Baby, Baby Coin, Smoke Screen, Black Banshe, etc., is tracked internally by Qi’anxin as APT-Q-2. The APT group was publicly disclosed in 2013, with attack activity dating as far back as 2012. Kimsuky’s main target for attacks Read More …

GOFFEE continues to attack organizations in Russia

GOFFEE is a threat actor that first came to our attention in early 2022. Since then, Kaspersky researchers have observed malicious activities targeting exclusively entities located in the Russian Federation, leveraging spear phishing emails with a malicious attachment. Starting in Read More …