SafeDep found a remote access implant in mathmain, an npm package that copies mathjs, and in two sibling packages, mathsbase and math-universe. The malicious code ships AES-256-GCM encrypted and activates only when lusolve() is called with matrix data whose LU lower factor serializes to a specific password. Once decrypted, the implant tak…
ThreatFabric has documented Hirudo, an Android banking remote-access trojan that steals credentials and gives operators remote control of the phone. Its distinguishing feature is replacing selected genuine banking apps with modified copies that interfere with security checks from inside the app. Victims first install a lure app (Shopora, …
SafeDep flagged the malicious npm package ulid-xyz in June 2026. It typosquats ulidx and is a cross-platform remote access trojan. It is delivered through a three-layer transitive dependency chain: ioredis-xyz (a clone of the legitimate ioredis client) depends on redis-type-xyz (an empty manifest posing as Redis OM), which in version 1.10…
F5 Labs, using Efflux sensor telemetry, reports on the most exploited CVEs of April 2025 and on internet-wide scanning for SparkRAT command-and-control servers. A single actor, using three IPs in DigitalOcean ASN 14061, sent identical HTTP POST requests to the SparkRAT in-place update endpoint, each IP scanning for about 13 hours and reac…
A ClickFix malvertising campaign uses sponsored Google results for "amazon business" to lure victims to a fake Amazon login page on Google Sites and then to a fake CAPTCHA. The CAPTCHA pastejacks a command into the clipboard that the victim is told to run in the Windows Run box. The command abuses the legacy finger.exe utility to fetch a …
Siemens has confirmed that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS v4 8.4), a DLL search-path/side-loading flaw (CWE-427) in Siemens Software Center, to deliver malware. Attackers bundle a genuine, validly signed copy of the application (version 3.5.8.7) with malicious DLLs that it loads from its own folder. The activity i…