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News Securelist 5 months ago
Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts
Since late 2025, malware has been spreading rapidly through the Steam Workshop. In most cases, we caught old, familiar threats such as DarkKomet, the Lumma and Vidar infostealers.
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News Securelist 6 months ago
How a single image takes control of a Mac
We explain how a flaw in ExifTool allows attackers to compromise macOS systems via a malicious image (CVE-2026-3102).
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News Securelist 6 months ago
Popular DAEMON Tools software compromised
Targeted by threat actors: individuals and organizations across 100+ countries and territories, with the majority of victims located in Russia, Brazil, Turkey, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, and China.
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News Securelist 7 months ago
Lotus Wiper: a new threat targeting the energy and utilities sector
Kaspersky researchers analyze the attack chain of a highly destructive Lotus Wiper that can be linked to a targeted attack on the energy and utilities sector.
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News Securelist 8 months ago
Coruna framework: an exploit kit and ties to Operation Triangulation
Kaspersky GReAT experts look into the Coruna exploit kit targeting iPhones. We discovered that the kernel exploit for CVE-2023-32434 and CVE-2023-38606 is an updated version of the Operation Triangulation exploit.
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News Securelist 9 months ago
The Notepad++ supply chain attack - unnoticed execution chains and new IoCs
Kaspersky GReAT experts discovered previously undocumented infection chains used in the Notepad++ supply chain attacks. The article provides new IoCs related to those incidents which employ DLL sideloading and Cobalt Strike Beacon delivery.
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News Securelist 1 year ago
ThrottleStop driver abused to terminate AV processes
In an incident response case, Kaspersky experts discovered new malware that terminates AV processes by abusing the legitimate ThrottleStop driver. Kaspersky solutions successfully counter and detect this threat.
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News Securelist 1 year ago
The Solidity Language open-source package was used in a $500,000 crypto heist
Kaspersky GReAT experts uncover malicious extensions for Cursor AI that download the Quasar backdoor and a crypto stealer.
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News Securelist 1 year ago
Operation ForumTroll: APT attack with Google Chrome zero-day exploit chain
Kaspersky GReAT experts discovered a complex APT attack on Russian organizations dubbed Operation ForumTroll, which exploits zero-day vulnerabilities in Google Chrome.
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News securelist.com 1 year ago
The GitVenom campaign: cryptocurrency theft using GitHub
Kaspersky researchers discovered GitVenom campaign distributing stealers and open-source backdoors via fake GitHub projects.
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