SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 73

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Analysis of ShadowPad Attack Exploiting WSUS Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287)  

Shai-Hulud 2.0 Supply Chain Attack: 25K+ npm Repos Exposed

Spyware Allows Cyber Threat Actors to Target Users of Messaging Applications 

Morphisec Thwarts Russian-Linked StealC V2 Campaign Targeting Blender Users via Malicious .blend Files  

Fake adult websites pop realistic Windows Update screen to deliver stealers via ClickFix

ShadowV2 Casts a Shadow Over IoT Devices  

ClickFix Gets Creative: Malware Buried in Images  

Russian RomCom Utilizing SocGholish to Deliver Mythic Agent to U.S. Companies Supporting Ukraine  

Shai Hulud Launches Second Supply-Chain Attack: Zapier, ENS, AsyncAPI, PostHog, Postman Compromised  

Inside the GitHub Infrastructure Powering North Korea’s Contagious Interview npm Attacks  

Inside the GitHub Infrastructure Powering North Korea’s Contagious Interview npm Attacks

Bloody Wolf: A Blunt Crowbar Threat To Justice     

A Research and Development Portfolio of GNN Centric Malware Detection, Explainability, and Dataset Curation

Accuracy and Efficiency Trade-Offs in LLM-Based Malware Detection and Explanation: A Comparative Study of Parameter Tuning vs. Full Fine-Tuning

Synthetic Data: AI’s New Weapon Against Android Malware

The Aho-Corasick Paradigm in Modern Antivirus Engines: A Cornerstone of Signature-Based Malware Detection

Improving the Performance of Static Malware Classification Using Deep Learning Models and Feature Reduction Strategies 

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