SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 39

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

Microsoft Trusted Signing service abused to code-sign malware

Shedding light on the ABYSSWORKER driver 

VSCode Marketplace Removes Two Extensions Deploying Early-Stage Ransomware

New Android Malware Campaigns Evading Detection Using Cross-Platform Framework .NET MAUI  

Raspberry Robin: Copy Shop USB Worm Evolves to Initial Access Broker Enabling Other Threat Actor Attacks

ReaderUpdate Reforged | Melting Pot of macOS Malware Adds Go to Crystal, Nim and Rust Variants  

Grandoreiro Trojan Distributed via Contabo-Hosted Servers in Phishing Campaigns 

Malware found on npm infecting local package with reverse shell  

Shifting the sands of RansomHub’s EDRKillShifter  

Multiple crypto packages hijacked, turned into info-stealers  

CoffeeLoader: A Brew of Stealthy Techniques

PJobRAT makes a comeback, takes another crack at chat apps      

Exposing Crocodilus: New Device Takeover Malware Targeting Android Devices

You will always remember this as the day you finally caught FamousSparrow

RedCurl’s Ransomware Debut: A Technical Deep Dive

Blacklock Ransomware: A Late Holiday Gift with Intrusion into the Threat Actor’s Infrastructure     

Over 150K websites hit by full-page hijack linking to Chinese gambling sites

Coding Malware in Fancy Programming Languages for Fun and Profit

Leveraging VAE-Derived Latent Spaces for Enhanced Malware Detection with Machine Learning Classifiers

Trandroid: An Android Mobile Threat Detection System Using Transformer Neural Networks

A Wide and Weighted Deep Ensemble Model for Behavioral Drifting Ransomware Attacks  

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, malware)