Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Russian-speaking Crazy Evil group runs over 10 social media scams, tricking victims into installing StealC, AMOS, and Angel Drainer malware. Since 2021, the Crazy Evil gang has become a major cybercriminal group, using phishing, identity fraud, and malware to steal cryptocurrency.

Scams

The Hacker News

JULY 10, 2025

Cryptocurrency users are the target of an ongoing social engineering campaign that employs fake startup companies to trick users into downloading malware that can drain digital assets from both Windows and macOS systems.

Cryptocurrency

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 31, 2025

The FBI and authorities in The Netherlands this week seized dozens of servers and domains for a hugely popular spam and malware dissemination service operating out of Pakistan. The proprietors of the service, who use the collective nickname “ The Manipulaters ,” have been the subject of three stories published here since 2015.

Phishing

Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2025

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the publics interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and delivering malware via text-to-video tools. Links to the malicious websites were brought to the researchers’ attention by ads and links in comments on social media platforms. Dont click on sponsored search results.

Malware

Malwarebytes

APRIL 24, 2025

ELUSIVE COMET targets its victims by luring them into a Zoom video call and then taking over their PC to install malware, infiltrate their accounts, and steal their assets. The group typically approaches victims with a supposed media opportunity to get them interested, and then sets up an introductory Zoom call. He took the bait.

Malware

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

” “That said, the phishing attacks stem from partners’ machines being compromised with malware, which has enabled them to also gain access to the partners’ accounts and to send the messages that your reader has flagged,” they continued. A scan of social media networks showed this is not an uncommon scam.

Phishing

Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2025

Hive0117 targets Russian firms in multiple sectors with phishing attacks using a modified version of the DarkWatchman malware. A cybercrime group named Hive0117 is behind a fresh phishing campaign that targeted Russian organizations with a new version of the DarkWatchman malware, according to Russian cybersecurity firm F6.

Malware

Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2025

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Malware

SecureWorld News

MAY 9, 2025

Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new malware strain, dubbed "LOSTKEYS," attributed to the Russian state-sponsored hacking group COLDRIVER. The introduction of LOSTKEYS signifies a strategic shift towards deploying malware for direct data exfiltration.

Malware

Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2025

offers up to $10M for info on state hackers linked to RedLine malware and its creator, Maxim Rudometov, tied to attacks on U.S. “Maxim Alexandrovich Rudometov (Максим Александрович Рудомётов), born in 1999 in the Luhansk region of Ukraine, developed and has sold “information stealer” malware known as RedLine.”

Malware

The Hacker News

MAY 12, 2025

Threat actors have been observed leveraging fake artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools as a lure to entice users into downloading an information stealer malware dubbed Noodlophile.

Artificial Intelligence

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 29, 2024

RedLine and META targeted millions of victims worldwide, according to Eurojust it was one of the largest malware platforms globally. Authorities discovered that over 1 200 servers in dozens of countries were running the malware. ESET released a free online scanner for Redline and META that can help users detect and remove malware.

Identity Theft

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2025

Despite advanced AI detection and telemetry analysis offered in todays EDR solutions, modern infostealer malware is designed to evade even the most sophisticated defenses, using tactics like polymorphic malware, memory-only execution, and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities or outdated software.

Antivirus

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Deepfakes are media content—such as videos, images, or audio—created using GAI to realistically manipulate faces, voices, or even entire events. For example, these campaigns leverage fake social media accounts to post questions and comments about divisive internal issues in the U.S.

Artificial Intelligence

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2025

The Nova Stealer and the Ageo Stealer are a Malware-as-a-Service (MaaS) stealer where criminals rent out the malware and the infrastructure to other criminals. Another campaign uses blogspot to host their malware. Protect your social media accounts by using Malwarebytes Identity Theft Protection. fr leyamor[.]com

Scams

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The group used the chatbot to receive support in Android malware development and to create a scraper for the social media platform Instagram. “This actor used our models to debug malware, for coding assistance in creating a basic scraper for Instagram, and to translate LinkedIn profiles into Persian.

Malware

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

A review of EDR vendors across many cybercrime forums shows that some fake EDR vendors sell the ability to send phony police requests to specific social media platforms, including forged court-approved documents. “Unfortunately, a lot of this is phishing or malware campaigns,” Donahue said. dot-gov emails get hacked.

Hacking

Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2025

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.

Malware

Security Affairs

MARCH 27, 2025

Cybercriminals are exploiting the popularity of DeepSeek by using fake sponsored Google ads to distribute malware. While DeepSeek is rising in popularity, threat actors are attempting to exploit it by using fake sponsored Google ads to distribute malware, Malwarebytes researchers warn. ” reads the alert published by Malwarebytes.

Malware

Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2025

Our free Digital Footprint scan searches the dark web, social media, and other online sources, to tell you where your data has been exposed. Sure, its more convenient to get sites to remember your card details for you, but we highly recommend not storing that information. Find out what information is already out there.

Phishing

Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2025

The attackers used multiple hacking tools and malware, including ThreatNeedle , Agamemnon downloader, wAgent , SIGNBT, and COPPERHEDGE. We found that the malware was running in the memory of a legitimateSyncHost.exeprocess, and was created as a subprocess of Cross EX, legitimate software developed in South Korea.”

Malware

Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2025

Take the 184 million logins for social media accounts we reported about recently. These malware variants silently extract credentials stored in browsers, email clients, messaging apps, and even crypto wallets, and send the data to cybercriminals. Now try to imagine 16 billion! billion records each.

Identity Theft

SecureList

APRIL 23, 2025

We found that the malware was running in the memory of a legitimate SyncHost. Although the exact method by which Cross EX was exploited to deliver malware remains unclear, we believe that the attackers escalated their privileges during the exploitation process as we confirmed the process was executed with high integrity level in most cases.

Malware

Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2025

Between January and April 2025, INTERPOL led Operation Secure, a global effort that took down over 20,000 malicious IPs and domains linked to information-stealing malware. Meanwhile, Hong Kong Police analyzed over 1,700 intel items from INTERPOL, uncovering 117 command-and-control servers used for phishing, fraud, and social media scams.

Cybercrime

Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Whereas early phishing scams arrived almost entirely through emails, modern phishing scams can reach victims through malicious websites, text messages, social media, and even mobile app downloads. Social media account hacks are not only a risk to content creatorstheyre a risk to any business with a legitimate online audience.

Small Business

SecureWorld News

JUNE 6, 2025

"The growing sophistication of malware and attacker objectives means OT-focused organizations must rethink how they segment, detect, and respond to threats," the report states. Top threats: malware and remote access tools The report highlights the alarming frequency of malware capable of disrupting OT systems.

Media

SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

In mid-March 2025, Kaspersky technologies detected a wave of infections by previously unknown and highly sophisticated malware. Our research is still ongoing, but judging by the functionality of the sophisticated malware used in the attack, it seems the attackers’ goal was espionage. Generic Trojan.Win64.Agent Agent Trojan.Win64.Convagent.gen

Malware

SecureList

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Kaspersky solutions worldwide detected this type of malware on 297,485 unique user devices. This malware also possessed the capability to install a backdoor on compromised systems. User-generated content platforms, such as forums, and compromised legitimate websites are both susceptible to malware infection. 2 Tajikistan 1.63

Mobile

Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2025

Morphisec researchers observed attackers exploiting AI hype to spread malware via fake AI tools promoted in viral posts and Facebook groups. Users seeking free AI video tools unknowingly download Noodlophile Stealer, a new malware that steals browser credentials, crypto wallets, and may install remote access trojans like XWorm.

Malware

Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2025

Its value stems from WhatsApp’s massive user base and the potential for covert access to private chats, media, and device-level control. In February, Meta announced that it had discovered and dismantled a malware campaign via WhatsApp that targeted journalists and civil society members with the Paragon spyware (aka Graphite).

Spyware

SecureWorld News

APRIL 22, 2025

Attack methodology: a step-by-step breakdown The Elusive Comet campaign begins with cybercriminals impersonating venture capitalists, media representatives, or business partners to lure cryptocurrency professionals into Zoom meetings.

Cryptocurrency

Krebs on Security

APRIL 8, 2025

Eleven of those flaws earned Microsoft’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning malware or malcontents could exploit them with little to no interaction from Windows users. The zero-day flaw already seeing exploitation is CVE-2025-29824 , a local elevation of privilege bug in the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) driver.

Software

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

LightSpy can steal files from multiple popular applications like Telegram, QQ, and WeChat, as well as personal documents and media stored on the device. Destructive plugin: capable of deleting media files from the device PushMessage 1.0.0 Destructive plugin: capable of deleting media files from the device PushMessage 1.0.0

Spyware

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Volt Typhoon made headlines earlier this year when the FBI removed their malware from hundreds of routers across the US. We don’t just report on threats – we help protect your social media Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline.

Encryption

Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2025

Vidar is a Malware-as-a-Service information stealer which uses public networks such as social media, communication platforms—and Steam—as parts of its Command & Control infrastructure. In another case of abuse of the Steam platform, we saw a cybercriminal use a sniper video game to distribute malware to unsuspecting gamers.

Malware

Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2025

The vulnerability is a privilege escalation vulnerability that impacts the Core Media framework. The Apple Core Media framework supports multimedia tasks like playback, recording, and manipulation of audio and video on iOS and macOS devices. “A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges.

Spyware

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Meta announced the disruption of a malware campaign via WhatsApp that targeted journalists with the Paragon spyware. Meta announced that discovered and dismantled a malware campaign via WhatsApp that targeted journalists and civil society members with the Paragon spyware (aka Graphite).

Spyware