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Microsoft Security Blog: Think before you Click(Fix): Analyzing the ClickFix social engineering technique

Aug 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/08/21/think-before-you-clickfix-analyzing-the-clickfix-social-engineering-technique/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Think before you Click(Fix): Analyzing the ClickFix social engineering technique Feedly Summary: The ClickFix social engineering technique has been growing in popularity, with campaigns targeting thousands of enterprise and end-user devices daily. This technique exploits users’ tendency to resolve technical issues by tricking them into running malicious…

Cisco Talos Blog: What happened in Vegas (that you actually want to know about)

Aug 14, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/what-happened-in-vegas-that-you-actually-want-to-know-about/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: What happened in Vegas (that you actually want to know about) Feedly Summary: Hazel braves Vegas, overpriced water and the Black Hat maze to bring you Talos’ latest research — including a deep dive into the PS1Bot malware campaign. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This newsletter…

Cisco Talos Blog: Malvertising campaign leads to PS1Bot, a multi-stage malware framework

Aug 12, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/ps1bot-malvertising-campaign/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Malvertising campaign leads to PS1Bot, a multi-stage malware framework Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos has observed an ongoing malware campaign that seeks to infect victims with a multi-stage malware framework, implemented in PowerShell and C#, which we are referring to as “PS1Bot.” AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:**…

Microsoft Security Blog: Lumma Stealer: Breaking down the delivery techniques and capabilities of a prolific infostealer

May 21, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/05/21/lumma-stealer-breaking-down-the-delivery-techniques-and-capabilities-of-a-prolific-infostealer/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Lumma Stealer: Breaking down the delivery techniques and capabilities of a prolific infostealer Feedly Summary: Over the past year, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the persistent growth and operational sophistication of Lumma Stealer, an info-stealing malware used by multiple financially motivated threat actors to target various industries. Microsoft,…

Microsoft Security Blog: Threat actors misuse Node.js to deliver malware and other malicious payloads

Apr 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/15/threat-actors-misuse-node-js-to-deliver-malware-and-other-malicious-payloads/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Threat actors misuse Node.js to deliver malware and other malicious payloads Feedly Summary: Since October 2024, Microsoft Defender Experts has observed and helped multiple customers address campaigns leveraging Node.js to deliver malware and other payloads that ultimately lead to information theft and data exfiltration. The post Threat…

Cisco Talos Blog: One mighty fine-looking report

Apr 3, 2025

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Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/one-mighty-fine-looking-report/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: One mighty fine-looking report Feedly Summary: Hazel highlights the key findings within Cisco Talos’ 2024 Year in Review (now available for download) and details our active tracking of an ongoing campaign targeting users in Ukraine with malicious LNK files. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Threat…

Slashdot: Microsoft Admits GitHub Hosted Malware That Infected Almost a Million Devices

Mar 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/03/10/1652235/microsoft-admits-github-hosted-malware-that-infected-almost-a-million-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Admits GitHub Hosted Malware That Infected Almost a Million Devices Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has identified a malvertising campaign that exposed nearly a million devices to malware, linking infected users to malicious websites through redirectors from pirate video streaming sites. This highlights the…

Threat Research Archives – Unit 42: Stealers on the Rise: A Closer Look at a Growing macOS Threat

Mar 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/macos-stealers-growing/ Source: Threat Research Archives – Unit 42 Title: Stealers on the Rise: A Closer Look at a Growing macOS Threat Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the rise in macOS infostealer malware, specifically highlighting three notable types: Atomic Stealer, Poseidon Stealer, and Cthulhu Stealer. This increase poses…

The Register: Microsoft admits GitHub used to store malware that infected almost a million devices

Mar 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/infosec_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft admits GitHub used to store malware that infected almost a million devices Feedly Summary: Also, phone cleaner apps are a data-sucking scam, Singapore considering the literal rod for scammers, and more Infosec in Brief Microsoft has spotted a malvertising campaign that downloaded nastyware hosted on GitHub and…

Microsoft Security Blog: Malvertising campaign leads to info stealers hosted on GitHub

Mar 6, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/06/malvertising-campaign-leads-to-info-stealers-hosted-on-github/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Malvertising campaign leads to info stealers hosted on GitHub Feedly Summary: Microsoft detected a large-scale malvertising campaign in early December 2024 that impacted nearly one million devices globally. The attack originated from illegal streaming websites embedded with malvertising redirectors and ultimately redirected users to GitHub to deliver…

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