All news with #credential dumping tag

🔒 Researchers warn that the React2Shell flaw (CVE-2025-55182) is being actively exploited to deploy sophisticated Linux backdoors and harvest credentials. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and NTT Security report active use of KSwapDoor and ZnDoor, which provide interactive shells, file operations, lateral scanning, and stealthy mesh networking. Attackers are also abusing Cloudflare Tunnels and secret-scraping tools to extract cloud and AI tokens. Organizations should prioritize discovery, credential rotation, and removal of dropped backdoors and follow vendor mitigations immediately.

🔒 Askul Corporation confirmed that the RansomHouse extortion group stole approximately 740,000 customer and partner records during an October ransomware incident. Compromised data types include business and individual customer service records, partner data, and employee information. Askul says attackers likely used compromised administrator credentials for an outsourced partner that lacked MFA, disabled EDR, moved laterally, deployed multiple ransomware variants, and wiped backups. The company has isolated affected networks, enforced MFA, reset admin passwords, begun individual notifications and established long-term monitoring.

🔒 Chinese state-sponsored actors are implanting a Go-based backdoor called BRICKSTORM on VMware vCenter and ESXi servers to maintain long-term persistence in targeted networks. CISA, NSA and the Canadian Cyber Centre analyzed multiple samples and found the malware often remained undetected for extended periods, enabling lateral movement, credential theft and exfiltration via VSOCK and SOCKS5 proxy functionality. The joint advisory includes IOCs, YARA and Sigma rules and recommends patching, hardening vSphere, restricting service account privileges, segmenting networks and blocking unauthorized DoH.

🔒 ESET reports Iranian-aligned MuddyWater has deployed a previously undocumented backdoor named MuddyViper against Israeli organizations across academia, engineering, local government, manufacturing, technology, transportation, and utilities, as well as one Egyptian technology company. The intrusions began with spear-phishing PDFs and exploitation of VPN and remote-access vulnerabilities to deliver loaders called Fooder, which decrypt and execute the C/C++ backdoor or drop tunneling proxies and browser-data collectors. MuddyViper implements about 20 commands for reconnaissance, file transfer, command execution, and exfiltration of Windows credentials and browser data; several Fooder variants masquerade as the Snake game and use delayed execution to evade detection.

🐛 The Glassworm campaign has resurfaced in a third wave, with 24 new malicious VS Code-compatible extensions appearing on both the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and OpenVSX. Once installed, these extensions push updates that deploy Rust-based implants, use invisible Unicode to evade review, exfiltrate GitHub, npm, and OpenVSX credentials and cryptocurrency wallet data, and deploy a SOCKS proxy and an HVNC client for stealthy remote access. Researchers say attackers inflate download counts to blend with legitimate projects and manipulate search results; both vendors have been contacted about continued bypasses.

🛡️ A new Android malware family, Albiriox, has emerged on Russian-speaking cybercrime forums as a Malware-as-a-Service offering full device takeover and real-time fraud capabilities. Cleafy says it already targets more than 400 banking and cryptocurrency applications and combines VNC-style remote control with accessibility-driven UI automation, overlays and black-screen fraud techniques. Initial subscriptions were advertised at $650–$720 per month and the developers promote crypting to evade detection.

🛡️ Socket researchers detail a sophisticated NPM supply-chain campaign that uses fake coding interviews to trick developers into installing trojanized packages. Attackers operate a

🔍 Group-IB researchers reveal a multi-year ATM fraud campaign by UNC2891 that targeted two Indonesian banks and extended well beyond a Raspberry Pi infiltration. The campaign combined sophisticated malware — including the CAKETAP rootkit — with an extensive money-mule operation that recruited via Google ads and Telegram. Cloned card equipment was shipped to mules, who withdrew cash with real-time TeamViewer support or phone coordination. Group-IB warns banks to reassess ATM security and monitoring.

🔒 This advisory describes a cryptographic weakness in Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure Machine SCADA Expert and Pro-face BLUE Open Studio that could allow credential recovery from project files. An attacker with read access to Edge project or offline cache files can brute-force weak hashes to recover app-native or Active Directory passwords (CVE-2025-9317); the flaw requires local/file access and is not remotely exploitable. Apply 2023.1 Patch 1 immediately or implement recommended mitigations such as strict ACLs, strong project master passwords, removing embedded passwords, and following ICS cybersecurity best practices.

🔒 Researchers identified three malicious VS Code extensions tied to the GlassWorm campaign that together had thousands of installs. The packages — ai-driven-dev.ai-driven-dev, adhamu.history-in-sublime-merge, and yasuyuky.transient-emacs — were still available at reporting. Koi Security warns GlassWorm harvests Open VSX, GitHub, and Git credentials, abuses invisible Unicode for obfuscation, and uses blockchain-updated C2 endpoints. Defenders should audit extensions, rotate exposed tokens and credentials, and monitor repositories and wallet activity for signs of compromise.

🚨 A multi-stage supply-chain campaign published ten typosquatted npm packages on July 4 that collectively reached nearly 10,000 downloads before removal, according to Socket. Each package abused npm’s postinstall lifecycle to open a new terminal, present a fake CAPTCHA prompt, and retrieve a PyInstaller-packed binary that harvests credentials from browsers, OS keyrings, SSH keys, tokens and cloud configuration files. The JavaScript installers combined four layers of obfuscation with social engineering to evade detection and delay scrutiny while exfiltrating collected secrets to the attacker’s host.

⚠️ Koi Security has identified a supply-chain campaign dubbed PhantomRaven that inserted malicious code into 126 npm packages, collectively installed more than 86,000 times, by pointing dependencies to an attacker-controlled host (packages.storeartifact[.]com). The packages include preinstall lifecycle hooks that fetch and execute remote dynamic dependencies, enabling immediate execution on developers' machines. The payloads are designed to harvest GitHub tokens, CI/CD secrets, developer emails and system fingerprints, and exfiltrate the results, while typical scanners and dependency analyzers miss the remote dependencies because npmjs.com does not follow those external URLs.

🐦 The PhantomRaven campaign distributes dozens of malicious npm packages that steal authentication tokens, CI/CD secrets, and GitHub credentials. Discovered by Koi Security, the activity began in August and involved 126 packages with over 86,000 downloads. The packages use a remote dynamic dependency mechanism to fetch and execute payloads during npm install, enabling stealthy credential exfiltration. Developers should verify package provenance and avoid unvetted LLM-generated package suggestions.

🕵️ Researchers at Koi Security uncovered an ongoing npm credential-harvesting campaign called PhantomRaven, active since August 2025, that steals npm tokens, GitHub credentials and CI/CD secrets. The attacker hides malicious payloads using Remote Dynamic Dependencies (RDD), fetching code from attacker-controlled servers at install time to bypass static scans. The campaign leveraged slopsquatting—typo variants that exploit AI hallucinations—to increase installs; Koi found 126 infected packages with about 20,000 downloads and at least 80 still live at publication.

🛡️ Trellix researchers report that the threat actor SideWinder has evolved its tradecraft in 2025 by adopting a PDF + ClickOnce infection chain alongside previously used Word exploit vectors. Four spear‑phishing waves from March through September targeted a European embassy in New Delhi and organizations in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh, using tailored lures and a signed MagTek executable that side‑loads a malicious DLL. The DLL decrypts and runs a .NET loader (ModuleInstaller) which fetches StealerBot, a .NET implant capable of reverse shells, delivering additional payloads, and collecting screenshots, keystrokes, credentials and files.

🔍 Cisco Talos details widespread Qilin ransomware operations observed in late 2025, highlighting persistent leak-site activity and sustained victim publication. The analysis links many intrusions to exposed administrative credentials and unprotected remote access, with manufacturing, professional services, and wholesale trade heavily affected. Talos documents abuse of open-source exfiltration tools (notably Cyberduck), dual-encryptor deployment patterns, credential harvesting with mimikatz and SharpDecryptPwd, and numerous defense-evasion techniques, recommending layered controls such as MFA, credential monitoring, and hardened backups.

🔒 LastPass warns customers of a sophisticated phishing campaign that uses fake inheritance emails claiming a family member uploaded a death certificate to request emergency access to a user's vault. The messages include an agent ID and a link that redirects victims to a fraudulent page on lastpassrecovery[.]com where the victim is prompted to enter their master password. In some incidents attackers also called victims while posing as LastPass staff. The campaign, active since mid‑October and attributed to financially motivated group CryptoChameleon (UNC5356), has expanded to target passkeys as well.

🔒 Researchers have uncovered a global phishing campaign that used compromised mailboxes to deliver malicious Microsoft Word attachments, attributed with high confidence to the Iran-linked actor MuddyWater by Group-IB. The operation abused a NordVPN-accessed mailbox to send trusted-looking messages that prompted users to enable macros, which then installed the Phoenix v4 backdoor. Investigators also found RMM tools (PDQ, Action1, ScreenConnect) and a Chromium_Stealer credential stealer, while infrastructure traced to the domain screenai[.]online and an IP tied to NameCheap-hosted services.

🔒 Resecurity warns that legacy Windows name-resolution protocols continue to expose organisations to credential theft when attackers share the same local network. By poisoning LLMNR and NBT-NS broadcasts using tools such as Responder, attackers can capture usernames, domain context and password hashes without exploiting a software vulnerability. Recommended mitigations include disabling these protocols via Group Policy, blocking UDP 5355, enforcing SMB signing, reducing NTLM, and monitoring for anomalous traffic.

🔒 ParkMobile has settled a class action tied to its 2021 data breach, offering affected users a $1 in-app credit as part of a $32.8 million resolution. Threat actors leaked a 4.5 GB CSV exposing nearly 22 million customers' names, contact details, bcrypt-hashed passwords, mailing addresses, license plates and vehicle information. Claimants must manually apply promo code P@rkMobile-$1 (most codes expire Oct 8, 2026; California codes do not), and the company warns of continuing SMS phishing campaigns targeting users.