Cisco and Splunk ran a live Agentic SOC at Splunk .conf26, combining Cisco Cloud Control, Splunk Enterprise Security (ES), Cisco Talos intelligence and Endace continuous packet capture, with Jamf engineers also on the team. The article is largely a product and event retrospective. Its one security incident was a fake-Corepack npm credenti…
During the Splunk .conf conference, Cisco's Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE) in Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) produced a previously unseen detection of Flawed AMMYY, a RAT built from leaked AMMYY source code, alongside the usual detections of Upatre, Xpiro and Quasar. Detections arrived in HTTP/HTTPS pairs with identical timestamps from …
Lazarus Group, linked to North Korea, ran a cyberespionage campaign dubbed Operation FlashHole against South Korean organizations. The campaign combined spear-phishing, tailored websites, abuse of the financial security application INISAFE CrossWeb EX, and modular malware that ran largely in memory. It follows Operation SyncHole, which ab…
FortiGuard Labs describes Evooo1Bot, a Linux botnet that embeds the Mirai DDoS engine in a more modular and capable framework. It uses encrypted C2 communications, layered string obfuscation (AES-256-CTR, ChaCha20, XOR-based key derivation) and a 28-command remote administration interface. It also ships an integrated exploit arsenal again…
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…
FortiGuard Labs analyzed a SectopRAT variant that is embedded in legitimate software to evade detection. The malware uses a multi-stage loader to extract its payload from files, then applies API hashing, indirect function calls and in-memory loading to run the final .NET payload. Once running, it sets up encrypted communication with its C…
Kaspersky identified MovieReaper, a previously unknown modular, multi-stage crimeware framework distributed since mid-August 2026 through movie-themed torrents, including fake "The Odyssey (2026)" releases. Rather than compromising individual trackers, the actor modified the public torrent file repository itorrents.org, so trackers relyin…
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 …
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…
Kaspersky researchers describe a new MacSync macOS infostealer variant, first seen in the wild in September 2026, that replaces the earlier AppleScript-based droppers with FAT Mach-O binaries written in Objective-C and Swift. MacSync is sold as malware-as-a-service, so delivery varies by operator. In this campaign it spread through malici…