There are probably no gamers left who don’t know that downloading games from torrent trackers is a risky business. Yes, they come at no cost, cracked and sometimes conveniently repackaged — but they might contain malware. That’s why security solutions throw a fit — quarantining torrent files, preventing the installation of cracks… well, we should be thankful for that! Official … [Read more...] about Trojanized game PirateFi discovered on Steam
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PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps
Jan 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / VPN Security Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a wide range of information-gathering features like keylogging, screen capture, audio capture, remote shell, and file transfer/execution. The backdoor, according to Google's Managed Defense team, shares functional overlaps with a known … [Read more...] about PLAYFULGHOST Delivered via Phishing and SEO Poisoning in Trojanized VPN Apps
Trojanized TOR Browser Installers Spreading Crypto-Stealing Clipper Malware
Mar 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Malware Trojanized installers for the TOR anonymity browser are being used to target users in Russia and Eastern Europe with clipper malware designed to siphon cryptocurrencies since September 2022. "Clipboard injectors [...] can be silent for years, show no network activity or any other signs of presence until the disastrous day … [Read more...] about Trojanized TOR Browser Installers Spreading Crypto-Stealing Clipper Malware
Python Developers Warned of Trojanized PyPI Packages Mimicking Popular Libraries
Feb 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Supply Chain Attack Cybersecurity researchers are warning of "imposter packages" mimicking popular libraries available on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository. The 41 malicious PyPI packages have been found to pose as typosquatted variants of legitimate modules such as HTTP, AIOHTTP, requests, urllib, and urllib3. The … [Read more...] about Python Developers Warned of Trojanized PyPI Packages Mimicking Popular Libraries
Trojanized Windows 10 Installer Used in Cyberattacks Against Ukrainian Government Entities
Government entities in Ukraine have been breached as part of a new campaign that leveraged trojanized versions of Windows 10 installer files to conduct post-exploitation activities. Mandiant, which discovered the "socially engineered supply chain" attack around mid-July 2022, said the malicious ISO files were distributed via Ukrainian- and Russian-language Torrent websites. … [Read more...] about Trojanized Windows 10 Installer Used in Cyberattacks Against Ukrainian Government Entities
Malvertising Campaign On Google Distributed Trojanized AnyDesk Installer
Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday publicized the disruption of a "clever" malvertising network targeting AnyDesk that delivered a weaponized installer of the remote desktop software via rogue Google ads that appeared in the search engine results pages. The campaign, which is believed to have begun as early as April 21, 2021, involves a malicious file that masquerades as a … [Read more...] about Malvertising Campaign On Google Distributed Trojanized AnyDesk Installer
Trojanized Security Software Hits South Korea Users in Supply-Chain Attack
Cybersecurity researchers took the wraps off a novel supply chain attack in South Korea that abuses legitimate security software and stolen digital certificates to distribute remote administration tools (RATs) on target systems. Attributing the operation to the Lazarus Group, also known as Hidden Cobra, Slovak internet security company ESET said the state-sponsored threat actor … [Read more...] about Trojanized Security Software Hits South Korea Users in Supply-Chain Attack