Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Undercover miner: how YouTubers get pressed into distributing SilentCryptoMiner as a restriction bypass tool   Ragnar Loader   Desert Dexter. Attacks on Middle Eastern countries   Ballista – New IoT Botnet Targeting Thousands of TP-Link Archer Routers Microsoft patches […

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape

Undercover miner: how YouTubers get pressed into distributing SilentCryptoMiner as a restriction bypass tool  

Ragnar Loader  

Desert Dexter. Attacks on Middle Eastern countries  

Ballista – New IoT Botnet Targeting Thousands of TP-Link Archer Routers

Microsoft patches Windows Kernel zero-day exploited since 2023      

Trump Cryptocurrency Delivers ConnectWise RAT  

EMERGING THREATS  LockBit 4.0 

Analyzing OBSCURE#BAT: Threat Actors Lure Victims into Executing Malicious Batch Scripts to Deploy Stealthy Rootkits  

DeepSeek can be gently persuaded to spit out malware code

Captain MassJacker Sparrow: Uncovering the Malware’s Buried Treasure     

Lazarus Strikes npm Again with New Wave of Malicious Packages

Blind Eagle: …And Justice for All

#StopRansomware: Medusa Ransomware  

Lookout Discovers New Spyware by North Korean APT37

SuperBlack Ransomware operators exploit Fortinet Firewall flaws in recent attacks

Enhancing Malware Fingerprinting through Analysis of Evasive Techniques

Fortinet Identifies Malicious Packages in the Wild: Insights and Trends from November 2024 Onward 

An Android Malware Detection Method Using Frequent Graph Convolutional Neural Networks

Deep Defense Against Mal-Doc: Utilizing Transformer and SeqGAN for Detecting and Classifying Document Type Malware

An Android Malware Detection Method Using Frequent Graph Convolutional Neural Networks

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Pierluigi Paganini

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