North Korean hackers are deploying newly uncovered tools to move data between internet-connected and air-gapped systems, spread via removable drives, and conduct covert surveillance.

IntroductionIn December 2025, Zscaler ThreatLabz discovered a campaign linked to APT37 (also known as ScarCruft, Ruby Sleet, and Velvet Chollima), which is a DPRK-backed threat group. In this campaign ...

A convincing lookalike of the popular Huorong Security antivirus has been used to deliver ValleyRAT, a sophisticated Remote Access Trojan (RAT) built on the Winos4.0 framework, to users who believed ...

Zero-day exploits, AI-driven Android malware, firmware backdoors, password manager trust gaps, rising DDoS define this week’s critical cyber threats.

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A fake CAPTCHA scam is tricking Windows users into running PowerShell commands that install StealC malware and steal passwords, crypto wallets, and more.

Chinese hackers compromised Notepad++ updates for six months, deploying a backdoor to selectively target users in government and critical infrastructure sectors..

In a newly disclosed multi-stage threat campaign, attackers were seen skipping disk and leaning on in-memory tricks to deliver the XWorm remote access trojan (RAT). According to Forcepoint Labs’ ...

A newly identified Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group is targeting web infrastructure providers in Taiwan, with a focus on long-term access and data theft, according to Cisco Talos. The ...

In the following example, I will use MSFvenom to generate a Windows shellcode to execute calc.exe and use ZYPE to do the IPv6 obfuscation. Let's first generate the shellcode. This will generate the ...