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Gigabud Creates Android Work Profiles to Hide From Banking App Malware Checks
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (921+ words) A work profile is a separate space that Android typically reserves for employer apps, and what's inside it is kept separate from everything in the personal space. That split hides the trojan from the banking app's own malware checks, Group-IB…...
U.S. Disrupts Xinbi Guarantee Scam Marketplace, Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (835+ words) "Approximately $52 million of cryptocurrency involved in scam money laundering was restrained in one day, bringing the total restrained by the Scam Center Strike Force to approximately $938 million," DoJ said. In tandem, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)…...
Alby Hub Critical Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Over Internet-Exposed Bitcoin Wallets
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (798+ words) Bitcoin wallet company Alby has warned of a critical flaw in Alby Hub that could have let an attacker take over a wallet and send its funds, but only where the owner had made the Hub reachable from the internet....
Slim Spider Steals Crypto Custody Secrets From Brazilian Financial Institution
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (686+ words) A previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the Brazil-based activity cluster under the name Slim Spider. Slim Spider has been observed orchestrating…...
Liquid Hackers Return 3,400 Bitcoin Taken via Elements Bug, Still Holding $47M in BTC
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (636+ words) Whoever took nearly 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network on Sunday, September 6, returned 3,400 of it the next day, Bitcoin's public record shows. About 598.5 bitcoin has not come back. Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain that holds real bitcoin to back a token…...
Attackers Turn Trusted Node.js Runtime Into Malware Delivery Tool in Targeted Attacks
1+ week, 4+ day ago (665+ words) Threat actors are leveraging the trusted Node.js JavaScript runtime in multiple cyber attacks as a way to deploy malicious payloads. According to a new report published by the Symantec Threat Hunter Team today, the attack method has been put…...
Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads
1+ week, 5+ day ago (937+ words) The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation. "Cybercriminals, botnets, and malware are a clear and present danger to our nation's security…...
Breeze Comet Executes Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions via Brazilian Payment Systems
1+ week, 5+ day ago (466+ words) Brazilian financial services, retail, and e-commerce organizations have become the target of a financially motivated threat actor dubbed Breeze Comet (formerly UNC5669) since 2024. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant teams described the threat actor as "specializing in manipulating payment systems…...
13 Malicious Packagist Packages Target Unpatched iPhones to Steal Crypto Wallet Seeds
1+ week, 6+ day ago (571+ words) Cybersecurity researchers have identified a set of 13 malicious Composer theme packages on Packagist that are designed to inject JavaScript into Vietnamese movie and comic streaming sites that install those libraries and initiate the deployment of spyware aimed at unpatched iOS…...
Iranian Hackers Pose as Recruiters to Deliver Cross-Platform RATs Through Coding Tests
1+ week, 6+ day ago (767+ words) The Iranian Nimbus Manticore hacking group has been attributed to two previously undocumented malware families that highlight the continued evolution of its toolset and likely expand its targeting footprint to infect Linux and Apple macOS systems using cross-platform remote access…...