Cybersecurity

YouTube Game Cheats Spread Arcane Stealer Malware to Russian-Speaking Users

Mar 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Analysis YouTube videos promoting game cheats are being used to deliver a previously undocumented stealer malware called Arcane likely...

New Arcane stealer spreading via YouTube and Discord

At the end of 2024, we discovered a new stealer distributed via YouTube videos promoting game cheats. What’s intriguing about this malware is how...

Python Bot Delivered Through DLL Side-Loading

One of my hunting rules triggered some suspicious Python code, and, diving deeper, I found an interesting example of DLL side-loading. This technique involves...

How to Infect Your PC in Three Easy Steps – Krebs on Security

A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone mainstream. In this scam, dubbed “ClickFix,” the visitor to...

Chromecast chaos – 2nd gen devices go belly-up as Google struggles to fix certificate issue

Has your old Chromecast suddenly developed a problem?You're not alone it seems.Many users of second-generation Chromecast and Chromecast Audio streaming devices have discovered that...

Shannen – Darknet Diaries

Full Transcript Shannen Rossmiller wanted to fight terrorism. So she went online and did. Read more about her from her book “The...

No, you’re not fired – but beware of job termination scams

Some employment scams take an unexpected turn as cybercriminals shift from “hiring”...

Soft-Launching and Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Rebrand

Designing the first logo for Have I Been Pwned was easy: I...

Little fires everywhere for March Patch Tuesday – Sophos News

Microsoft on Tuesday released 57 patches affecting 10 product families. Six of the addressed issues are considered by Microsoft to be of Critical severity,...

Blind Eagle Hacks Colombian Institutions Using NTLM Flaw, RATs and GitHub-Based Attacks

The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been linked to a series of ongoing campaigns targeting Colombian institutions and government entities since November...

SideWinder APT attacks in H2 2024

Last year, we published an article about SideWinder, a highly prolific APT group whose primary targets have been military and government entities in Pakistan,...

Commonly Probed Webshell URLs – SANS Internet Storm Center

Looking over some weblogs on my way back from class in Baltimore, I feel a reminder is appropriate that (a) weblogs are still a...

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