Threat Intelligence — Page 22

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Threat Intelligence

ClickLock Stealer Tricks Mac Users Into Handing Over Their Own Passwords

A newly discovered piece of Mac malware skips the usual hacking tricks and simply persuades victims to run it themselves, then locks the screen until they surrender their passwords.

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China-Linked 'Daxin' Rootkit Returns After Four Years, Found Inside Taiwan Factory

The stealthy kernel malware, last documented in 2022, showed up alongside a new backdoor called Stupig on a manufacturer's network.

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Threat Intelligence

Brazilian Government Sites Turned Into Malware Traps in PhantomEnigma Campaign

Attackers quietly took over more than 20 official .gov.br domains and used them to push a stealthy backdoor, according to new analysis from ANY.RUN.

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Russian Crew Hides Starland Backdoor Inside Fake Zoom and WebEx Installers

UAT-11795 is spiking popular software downloads with a credential-and-crypto stealer, and US users are the main target.

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How a Spanish Cybercrime Gang Stole €140 Million and Almost Got Away With It

Spanish police, working with partners across Europe and beyond, dismantled a fraud network that used fake boss emails, phony investment sites, and nearly a thousand bank accounts to steal the equivalent of $161 million from ordinary people and businesses.

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A Botnet Author Asked an AI for Malware. The AI Left the Warning Label On.

Researchers found TuxBot v3 Evolution, a new IoT botnet whose creator appears to have copy-pasted AI-generated code, safety disclaimer and all.

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OkoBot Malware Hijacks Ledger and Trezor Apps to Steal Crypto Recovery Phrases

A Windows malware framework active since April 2025 waits for victims to open their hardware wallet software, then fakes a prompt for the seed words that unlock everything.

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Threat Intelligence

Trojanised AsyncAPI packages slip onto npm, hitting a library downloaded 2.25 million times a week

Attackers hijacked a GitHub build pipeline on 14 July to publish five poisoned versions of AsyncAPI tools, wiring in a stealthy info-stealer that talks to its operators over Ethereum and peer-to-peer networks.

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Threat Intelligence

When 80,000 fans log on at once: the cybersecurity headache facing 2026 World Cup stadiums

Tens of thousands of personal phones on one network, payment terminals, body cameras on referees, and sensors inside match balls. Stadium IT teams face a security puzzle that has no clean solution.

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Hijacked AsyncAPI npm Packages Slipped a Botnet Loader Into Developer Machines

Four packages under the popular @asyncapi namespace were tampered with to deliver a multi-stage malware loader, in the latest reminder that the open-source supply chain is a soft target.

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EU, UK and France Sanction Russia Over Coordinated Hacking and Sabotage Campaign Across Europe

France summoned Russia's ambassador on Monday after European governments accused the FSB, Russia's main intelligence service, of running a campaign to spy on and disrupt critical infrastructure across more than a dozen countries.

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Spanish police dismantle €140 million fraud ring that drained company bank accounts

Four arrests across Spain, Portugal and Panama close down a laundering network that pushed nearly €100 million through 800 bank accounts, much of it stolen through fake CEO emails.

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Fake GitHub Pages Impersonate 292 Real Brands to Push Password-Stealing Malware

A Russian-speaking crew built hundreds of lookalike project pages for security tools, wallets and dev software. One click on 'Download Secure Content' handed over browser passwords, crypto wallets and chat sessions.

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Ransomware Gang Claims Bosch and Synopsys Hacks. Synopsys Says It Sees Nothing.

A criminal group called D1R says it stole sensitive data from two major companies and will publish it unless it gets paid. One of those companies is pushing back.

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LabubaRAT: New Rust Malware Poses as NVIDIA Software to Sneak Onto Windows PCs

Researchers at Blackpoint Cyber say the newly named tool gives attackers a quiet, reusable way back into infected machines.

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