Kaspersky researchers report that the APT group Mirage Kitten has moved from native C/C++/Go malware to Node.js and JavaScript implants, NodeRabbit and PollCat. Both are cross-platform RATs delivered through spear-phishing by fake recruiters on LinkedIn and other job platforms, using trojanized coding-challenge archives hosted on Amazon S…
Unit 42 attributes with high confidence to an Iranian state-aligned actor, tracked as CL-STA-1178, a campaign called Blinder Tunnel. In March 2026 it targeted an individual in Iraq's critical infrastructure sector, after infrastructure staging that began as early as November 2025. The actor impersonated the Dubai Airports IT department an…
Unit 42 detailed a multi-stage intrusion in September 2024 against a telecommunications managed service provider, tracked as CL-STA-0954 (aka UNC5820). The attackers gained initial access by exploiting CVE-2024-47575 (FortiJump) on a central FortiManager and exfiltrated an archive with running configurations, credentials and private keys …
Kaspersky's analysis of Operation FlashHole describes a Lazarus Group campaign against South Korean organizations. It follows Operation SyncHole and is placed within the broader Cascade Hole activity. The earliest evidence dates to July 2025 (securelist.com, bleepingcomputer.com), and Kaspersky identified at least three victims in the sof…
Symantec reports that the Russia-linked APT28 (aka Swallowtail, Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard, BlueDelta), which the U.S. government links to the GRU, targeted organizations in two NATO member states. Victims were a naval shipbuilder, a manufacturer of military aircraft engines and a law enforcement agency (thehackernews.com, cyberscoop.com…
Unit 42 reports a campaign, tracked as CL-UNK-1211, that targeted government entities and state-affiliated infrastructure between October 2025 and April 2026. The cluster has not been attributed to a nation-state or to cybercrime. The attackers focused on Linux servers for reconnaissance, persistence and intelligence collection, including…