An advanced cloud-first malware framework targeting Linux systems was created almost entirely by artificial intelligence (AI), a move that signals significant evolution in the use of the technology to ...

A new malware campaign is turning WhatsApp Web into a weapon. Security researchers say a banking Trojan linked to Astaroth is now spreading automatically through chat messages, making the attack ...

The JavaScript (aka JScript) malware loader called GootLoader has been observed using a malformed ZIP archive that's designed to sidestep detection efforts by concatenating anywhere from 500 to 1,000 ...

Browser extensions promise convenience. Many offer simple tools like new tab pages, translators or video helpers. Researchers, however, uncovered a long-running malware operation that abused that ...

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Security researchers have uncovered a troubling new malware campaign that has been hiding malicious code inside the logo images of popular Firefox browser extensions. The campaign, dubbed “GhostPoster ...

A new report out today from endpoint security firm Morphisec Inc. details a previously undocumented malware family dubbed “PyStoreRAT” that abuses trusted open-source platforms and Windows scripting ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

We are either at the dawn of AI-driven malware that rewrites itself on the fly, or we are seeing vendors and threat actors exaggerate its capabilities. Recent Google and MIT Sloan reports reignited ...

Abstract: Whenever any internet user visits a website, a scripting language runs in the background known as JavaScript. The embedding of malicious activities within the script poses a great threat to ...

A new Android malware named Albiriox is being offered on cybercrime forums by Russian-speaking threat actors, according to online fraud management company Cleafy. Albiriox is a banking trojan designed ...

Threat actors are testing malware that incorporates large language models (LLMs) to create malware that can evade detection by security tools. In an analysis published earlier this month, Google's ...