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PhantomCaptcha ClickFix Attack Targets Ukraine Relief Orgs

🛡️ A one-day spearphishing campaign named PhantomCaptcha targeted Ukrainian regional government officials and multiple war-relief organizations on October 8, using malicious PDFs that linked to a fake Zoom domain and impersonated the President’s Office. According to SentinelLABS, the operation used a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA to trick victims into copying and pasting a token into the Windows Command Prompt, which executed a PowerShell downloader and deployed a WebSocket RAT. The lightweight RAT provided remote command execution and data exfiltration capabilities, and researchers found follow-on activity delivering spyware-laced Android APKs to users in Lviv.

Google Removes 224 Android Apps in Large SlopAds Fraud

🚨 Researchers at HUMAN disrupted a global Android ad-fraud operation dubbed "SlopAds" that used 224 malicious apps on Google Play to generate roughly 2.3 billion ad bid requests per day. The apps, downloaded over 38 million times across 228 countries, used obfuscation and steganography to hide a malicious FatModule payload assembled from PNG images. The campaign used Firebase Remote Config and hidden WebViews to deliver continuous fraudulent ad impressions and clicks; Google has removed the identified apps and updated Google Play Protect to warn affected users.