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CYFIRMA's new Star Blizzard profile, built largely on Microsoft's RedFlick report, describes bulk phishing against 100+ organizations in 2026, VHDX-and-shortcut lures, the CosmicPulse backdoor and a leaked iPhone exploit kit.
Check Point says the new Aokigahara infostealer has a dedicated module for AI assistant and coding-tool sessions, plus cloud configs, SSH keys, browsers and crypto wallets.
Securonix found JavaScript on hijacked sites that uses a logged-in WordPress admin's session to install a backdoored plugin that persists in mu-plugins and hides from the plugin list.
Huntress says a sponsored Google result led to a fake Amazon login and a ClickFix CAPTCHA that used finger.exe to install the Lumma infostealer and NetSupport remote access.
ADAMnetworks details how a device code phishing kit let an operator register rogue Entra devices, sit in a company's Microsoft 365 account for seven weeks and attempt payment fraud.
Semperis says Iran-linked Prince of Persia (Infy) rebuilt its infrastructure after a February exposure and is now running a Tornado C2 server in the US for the first time in a decade.
A Teams caller posing as IT talks victims into installing remote-access tools, then drops EtherRAT, a Node.js backdoor that looks up its command server in an Ethereum smart contract.
WatchGuard details three Brazil-linked campaigns, Overlord RAT, Lampion and a newdev.dll RAT, that start with VBScript and lean on built-in Windows tools and signed programs to stay hidden.
Stormshield says hacked WordPress sites read C2 addresses from a Polygon smart contract, then show Windows visitors a fake Cloudflare check that leads to a stealer loaded through the Deno runtime.
ESET says UAC-0099 phished into a Ukrainian grain logistics company and handed access to Sandworm, which wiped data, while a new Go backdoor hid its C&C inside the Yggdrasil mesh network.