Forescout Research - Vedere Labs disclosed ROMULUS, a ClickFix delivery platform that uses bogus landing pages with ClickFix-style lures to trick users into running malicious commands that infect their own machines. It is used to distribute malware such as Legion Loader (also tracked as Satacom downloader, CurlyGate and RobotDropper). For…
Citizen Lab reported that Israeli mercenary spyware vendor Candiru infected devices at Al Jazeera through targeted online ads that needed no user interaction. It calls this the first public technical confirmation of mercenary spyware reaching real devices via ad delivery. At least 45 Al Jazeera devices were targeted in 2024 and 2025, and …
Researchers at SafeDep identified imgdecode, a malicious npm package tied to the long-running MALFEX supply chain campaign first documented by Checkmarx and CloudSEK. Published on September 30, 2026 by user "malfexteste8", it has been downloaded 979 times and was still available at the time of reporting (latest version 1.0.3). MALFEX has …
Elastic Security Labs is tracking REF8801, a campaign in which a fake Web3 venture capital accelerator, Apex Accelerator (Apex Foundation), targets cryptocurrency startups and founders with malicious npm packages. The packages, @apexacc/cli and @apexacc/audit, pose as an AI advisor and an MCP-based security scanner, with offers of free Cl…
Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access disclosed in May 2026, according to ReliaQuest. Because access arrives through the victim's own VPN, it can resemble legitimate remote work and go unnoticed until credential theft, lateral movement, …