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Hackers Exploit DLL Sideloading in Signed OpenAI and Anthropic Binaries to Deploy YobaLoader Malware

A campaign tracked as Yoba abuses interest in generative AI to push cryptocurrency-mining malware through fake GitHub projects. Check Point Research published its findings on October 27, 2026, after about two months of tracking. The operators pair legi…
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DarkBlinders has compromised a high-profile Israeli individual associated with the security sector and a government cloud environment in Iraqi Kurdistan, combining credential phishing, a fake meeting application, and GitHub-based backdoors. Dream Secur…
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A campaign by the BITTER threat group that delivers a custom remote access trojan (RAT) called PapRAT to South Asian organizations. FortiGuard attributes the activity to the group with high confidence, based on lure filenames, command-and-control (C2) …
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Google Dismantles XCPE Botnet That Infected 1.3 Million Android TV Devices With Preinstalled Malware

Google and industry partners have dismantled the XCPE botnet. This firmware-level backdoor enrolled more than 1.3 million Android set-top boxes. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) assesses with high confidence that Android OEM and ODM Videostrong …
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FortiGuard Labs links BITTER to cyberespionage attacks on South Asian organizations using malicious Windows shortcuts, PowerShell scripts, and PapRAT malware.
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Fake Adobe Acrobat pages distribute signed ScreenConnect installers configured for attacker-controlled remote access to Windows PCs, CloudSEK’s researchers say.
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A fake GitHub repository tricks AI coding agents into installing SolanaCry malware, giving attackers remote access to developers’ Windows PCs through NetSupport.
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UAT-11473, an advanced persistent threat actor deploying KeyDrift, a custom malware framework targeting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN controllers. The framework embeds inside legitimate control-plane processes to maintain access, intercept decrypted communicat…
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INJ3CTOR3 has expanded its FreePBX toll-fraud campaign with automated credential theft, letting attackers keep billing unauthorized calls to victims even after infected servers are cleaned. September 2026 artifacts described in the supplied research sh…
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A judicial-themed phishing campaign targeting Colombian organizations that delivers XWorm through obfuscated scripts, encrypted PowerShell, and a reusable .NET loader. The recovered loader is binary-identical to one documented in a September 10, 2026, …
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