Phishing

VenomRAT spread via fake Bitdefender site Threat actors have been leveraging a fraudulent website promoting Bitdefender antivirus software to distribute the VenomRAT remote access trojan as part of a new attack campaign, The Hacker News reports.

Thousands of social media ads promoted sites impersonating legitimate GenAI tools.

Infostealer deployed via TikTok videos Infosecurity Magazine reports that potentially artificial intelligence-created TikTok videos have been leveraged by threat actors to deploy the Vidar and StealC information-stealing payloads as part of a new malware campaign.

U.S. government employees laid off as part of the Trump administration's cutbacks have been subjected to a Chinese state-backed cyberespionage campaign involving fraudulent recruitment sites and social media, according to Cybersecurity Dive.

Phishing pages targeting mobile devices showed up at the top of Google search results.

Malware exported the victims' KeePass password databases to drop ransomware on VMWare ESXi datastores.

New DBatLoader campaign sets sights on Turkey Turkish Windows users have been subjected to a new phishing campaign spreading the ModiLoader malware, also known as DBatLoader, reports GBHackers News.