Security Affairs Malware Newsletter – Round 2

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.

New Android Spyware Steals Data from Gamers and TikTok Users  

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: Practical Black-box Adversarial Attacks for Evading Learning-based Windows Malware Detection in the Wild

Mekotio Banking Trojan Threatens Financial Systems in Latin America  

UNVEILING AZZASEC RANSOMWARE: TECHNICAL INSIGHTS INTO THE GROUP’S LOCKER  

Decrypted: DoNex Ransomware and its Predecessors

Persistent npm Campaign Shipping Trojanized jQuery     

The Mechanics of ViperSoftX: Exploiting AutoIt and CLR for Stealthy PowerShell Execution   

Malware Classification Using Dynamically Extracted API Call Embeddings

Turning Jenkins Into a Cryptomining Machine From an Attacker’s Perspective

Patch or Peril: A Veeam vulnerability incident

RESURRECTING INTERNET EXPLORER: THREAT ACTORS USING ZERO-DAY TRICKS IN INTERNET SHORTCUT FILE TO LURE VICTIMS (CVE-2024-38112)     

CVE-2024-4577 Exploits in the Wild One Day After Disclosure 

Malware Trends Report: Q2, 2024       

New Malware Campaign Targeting Spanish Language Victims

DodgeBox: A deep dive into the updated arsenal of APT41 | Part 1

Malicious NuGet campaign uses homoglyphs and IL weaving to fool devs          

DarkGate: Dancing the Samba With Alluring Excel Files   

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Pierluigi Paganini

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