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Threat actors could use the geolocation data to track compromised systems. On August 8, 2023, Secureworks® Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers observed the Smoke Loader botnet dropping a custom Wi-Fi scanning executable to infected systems. CTU™ ...
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Smoke Loader malware has been around for years, but security researchers recently spotted a new payload that can determine an infected PC's real-world location.
Threat actors continue to poison the NPM repository for open-source JavaScript code with malware aimed at unwary application developers. But the most recent campaigns were so severe, they caused a distributed denial of service attack that periodically blocked access to the site. Researchers at Checkmarx say a hacker -- or hackers -- recently created a
A malicious campaign was caught heavily loading spam packages in NPM, which resulted in a denial-of-services (DoS) and caused the registry service to be sporadically unavailable.