PamStealer Uses Fake Maccy Sites and PAM Checks to Steal Mac Login Passwords

Researchers say the commercial adtech platform and several other companies form the infrastructure of a massive cybercrime operation.

A new malware campaign is exploiting a weakness in Discord’s invitation system to deliver an information stealer called Skuld and the AsyncRAT remote access trojan. “Attackers hijacked the links through vanity link registration, allowing them to silently redirect users from trusted sources to malicious servers,” Check Point said in a technical report. “The attackers combined…

If there’s a constant in cybersecurity, it’s that adversaries are always innovating. The rise of offensive AI is transforming attack strategies and making them harder to detect. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group, recently reported on adversaries using Large Language Models (LLMs) to both conceal code and generate malicious scripts on the fly, letting malware shape-shift in…

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged several popular Google Chrome extensions that have been found to transmit data in HTTP and hard-code secrets in their code, exposing users to privacy and security risks. “Several widely used extensions […] unintentionally transmit sensitive data over simple HTTP,” Yuanjing Guo, a security researcher in the Symantec’s Security Technology and Response

The North Korea-aligned threat actor known as BlueNoroff has been observed targeting an employee in the Web3 sector with deceptive Zoom calls featuring deepfaked company executives to trick them into installing malware on their Apple macOS devices. Huntress, which revealed details of the cyber intrusion, said the attack targeted an unnamed cryptocurrency foundation employee, who…