Huntress announced Attack Reduction, a new capability in Huntress Managed ESPM (Early Access) that disables the "Windows key + R" shortcut for users who never use the Run dialog, aiming to break the most common ClickFix attack chain. The post opens with an attempted fake-CAPTCHA lure that targeted a Huntress employee on a spoofed airport …
SentinelOne reports observing APT29 (Midnight Blizzard / Cozy Bear, Russia's SVR) running the CaptiveCrunch campaign, disclosed by Microsoft in July 2026, across multiple customer environments in three regions. The operation abuses captive-portal behaviour and forged name resolution to push fake browser updater downloads to roaming Window…
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's Threat Hunter Team reports that new versions of the Aoki infostealer now target credential and session files used by AI coding assistants. Earlier versions focused on browser, cryptocurrency wallet and password manager data. Aoki is a relatively new and sparsely documented stealer, first observed earlier in 2026, and its AI-rel…
SafeDep reports that the PolinRider loader family now resolves its C2 servers from Ethereum mainnet. The loader reads small transactions from operator wallets and decodes the recipient address as an IP:port. SafeDep confirmed 35 GitHub repositories carrying the loader at HEAD on 2026-09-30 (7,578 stars and 2,884 forks combined). The inves…