Bitdefender documented Midnight Mimosa, an Android malware campaign that embeds a platform-signed malicious system app in the firmware of low-cost, MediaTek-based handsets and counterfeit flagship models before they reach buyers. Thousands of infected devices were observed in more than 150 countries over roughly two years. The implant dri…
The seller of the StealC infostealer began advertising Stadia on October 16. It is a subscription-based modular remote access trojan that pairs credential theft with hidden desktop control. Varonis Threat Labs obtained a build, reverse engineered it and found StealC code inside the agent. The panel changelog records an upgrade to the Stea…
Acronis Threat Research Unit found that the Gentlemen ransomware operation is using the BYOVD (bring your own vulnerable driver) technique with legitimate Lenovo and Safetica kernel drivers to terminate endpoint security software before encrypting files. Two custom dropper samples were recovered from a recent incident. They install the dr…
Unit 42 (unit42.paloaltonetworks.com) tracks a campaign, CL-UNK-1211, that compromised government entities and state-affiliated Linux infrastructure between October 2025 and April 2026. Unit 42 published the research on October 15, and gbhackers.com covered it on October 22. The operators carried out reconnaissance, persistence and intell…