⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Rootkit, macOS Crypto Stealer, WebSocket Skimmers and More

Rough Monday.
Somebody poisoned a trusted download again, somebody else turned cloud servers into public housing, and a few crews are still getting into boxes with bugs that should’ve died years ago — the same old holes, same lazy access paths, same “h… Continue reading ⚡ Weekly Recap: Linux Rootkit, macOS Crypto Stealer, WebSocket Skimmers and More→

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Your Purple Team Isn’t Purple — It’s Just Red and Blue in the Same Room

Defending a network at 2 am looks a lot like this: an analyst copy-pasting a hash from a PDF into a SIEM query. A red team script is being rewritten by hand so the blue team can use it. A patch waiting on a change-approval window that’s longer than the… Continue reading Your Purple Team Isn’t Purple — It’s Just Red and Blue in the Same Room→

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Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads

A malicious Hugging Face repository managed to take a spot in the platform’s trending list by impersonating OpenAI’s Privacy Filter open-weight model to deliver a Rust-based information stealer to Windows users.
The project, named Open-OSS/privacy-filt… Continue reading Fake OpenAI Privacy Filter Repo Hits #1 on Hugging Face, Draws 244K Downloads→

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TCLBANKER Banking Trojan Targets Financial Platforms via WhatsApp and Outlook Worms

Threat hunters have flagged a previously undocumented Brazilian banking trojan dubbed TCLBANKER that’s capable of targeting 59 banking, fintech, and cryptocurrency platforms.
The activity is being tracked by Elastic Security Labs under the moniker REF3… Continue reading TCLBANKER Banking Trojan Targets Financial Platforms via WhatsApp and Outlook Worms→

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Fake Call History Apps Stole Payments From Users After 7.3 Million Play Store Downloads

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered fraudulent apps on the official Google Play Store for Android that falsely claimed to offer access to call histories for any phone number, only to trick users into joining a subscription that provided fake data… Continue reading Fake Call History Apps Stole Payments From Users After 7.3 Million Play Store Downloads→

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Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise

A previously undocumented Linux implant codenamed Quasar Linux RAT (QLNX) is targeting developers’ systems to establish a silent foothold as well as facilitate a broad range of post-compromise functionality, such as credential harvesting, keylogging, f… Continue reading Quasar Linux RAT Steals Developer Credentials for Software Supply Chain Compromise→

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