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The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 (aka ScarCruft) has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building exercise into a delivery channel for a remote access trojan called RokRAT . "The threat actor used two Facebook accounts with their location set to Pyongyang and Pyongsong, North Korea, to identify and screen targets," the Genians Security Center (GSC) said in a technical breakdown of the campaign. "After building trust through friend requests, the actor moved the conversation to Messenger and used specific topics to lure targets as part of the initial social engineering stage of the attack." Central to the attack is the use of what the GSC describes as pretexting, a tactic where the threat actors aim to trick unsuspecting users into installing a dedicated PDF viewer, claiming the software...

OpenAI revealed a GitHub Actions workflow used to sign its macOS apps led to the download of the malicious Axios library on March 31, but noted that no user data or internal system was compromised. "Out of an abundance of caution, we are taking steps to protect the process that certifies our macOS applications are legitimate OpenAI apps," OpenAI said in a post last week. "We found no evidence that OpenAI user data was accessed, that our systems or intellectual property were compromised, or that our software was altered." The disclosure comes a little over a week after Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) attributed the supply chain compromise of the popular npm package to a North Korean hacking group it tracks as UNC1069 . The attack enabled the threat actors to hijack the package maintainer's npm account to push two poisoned versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 that came embedded with a malicious dependency named "plain-crypto-js," which depl...

Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID ("cpuid[.]com"), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00 UTC, with the download URLs for CPU-Z and HWMonitor installers replaced with links to malicious websites. In a post shared on X, CPUID confirmed the breach, attributing it to a compromise of a "secondary feature (basically a side API)" that caused the main site to randomly display malicious links. It's worth noting that the attack did not impact its signed original files. According to Kaspersky , the names of the rogue websites are as follows - cahayailmukreatif.web[.]id pub-45c2577dbd174292a02137c18e7b1b5a.r2[.]dev transitopalermo[.]com vatrobran[.]hr "The t...

Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621 , carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0. Successful exploitation of the flaw could allow an attacker to run malicious code on affected installations. It has been described as a case of prototype pollution that could result in arbitrary code execution. Prototype pollution refers to a JavaScript security vulnerability  that permits an attacker to manipulate an application's objects and properties. The issue impacts the following products and versions for both Windows and macOS - Acrobat DC versions 26.001.21367 and earlier (Fixed in 26.001.21411) Acrobat Reader DC versions 26.001.21367 and earlier (Fixed in 26.001.21411) Acrobat 2024 versions 24.001.30356 and earlier (Fixed in 24.001.30362 for Windows and...

Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called  Webloc . The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after the two firms merged in July 2023 , according to a report published by the Citizen Lab. Penlink, founded in 1986, is a provider of "mission-critical communications and digital evidence collection and analysis software" to law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and across the world. U.S. customers of the Webloc include Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. military, Texas Department of Public Safety, DHS West Virginia, NYC district attorneys, and various police departments in Los Angeles, Dallas, Baltimore, Tucson, Durham, and in smaller cities and counties like the City of Elk Grov...