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March 2025 Trends Report on Phishing Emails

The report analyzes phishing email trends in March 2025, revealing that phishing attacks constituted 59% of email threats. Attackers primarily used HTML scripts to mimic login pages and promotional content, aiming to steal user credentials. The analysis covers distribution statistics, Korean phishi…

phishing

social engineering

Published: April 10, 2025

Downloadable IOCs: 0

SmokeLoader Malware Targets Ukraine's Auto & Banking Sectors via Open Directories

An investigation uncovered open directories hosting SmokeLoader malware samples and lure documents targeting Ukraine's automotive and banking sectors. Two servers were identified, containing Windows executables and PDF files posing as invoices from Ukrainian companies. The malware injects into expl…

Published: February 7, 2025

Downloadable IOCs: 27

ViperSoftX Uses Deep Learning-based Tesseract to Exfiltrate Information

This analysis focuses on the recent activities of the ViperSoftX malware strain, which controls infected systems and steals user information. The malware is known to install additional malware payloads, including Quasar RAT and a new infostealer called TesseractStealer. TesseractStealer utilizes th…

Published: May 17, 2024

Downloadable IOCs: 8

Threat Actors Hack YouTube Channels to Distribute Infostealers

This analysis reveals that malicious groups have been exploiting popular YouTube channels, including some with over 800,000 subscribers, to distribute various infostealer malware strains like Vidar and LummaC2. The attackers upload videos promoting cracked software with links to malicious payloads …

Published: May 10, 2024

Downloadable IOCs: 13

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Attack reports

March 2025 Trends Report on Phishing Emails

SmokeLoader Malware Targets Ukraine's Auto & Banking Sectors via Open Directories

ViperSoftX Uses Deep Learning-based Tesseract to Exfiltrate Information

Threat Actors Hack YouTube Channels to Distribute Infostealers