German authorities shut down major crypto-swapping platform “eXch,” seizing €34 million in illicit assets
On April 30, 2025, the Frankfurt am Main General Prosecutor’s Office-Central Unit for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT)-in close collaboration with the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), executed...
Tactical reality behind the India-Pakistan hacktivist surge
In May 2025, a wave of hacktivist activity targeting Indian digital infrastructure sparked widespread alarm in media and social networks, with numerous groups claiming significant breaches of government,...
From PDF invoice to geo-fenced RAT delivery campaign
A recent campaign targeting Southern European organizations demonstrates advanced evasion techniques combining social engineering, trusted platforms, and geolocation filtering. The attack chain unfolds through four precision stages: 1....
Emerging DOGE Big Balls ransomware campaign leverages multi-stage tooling and BYOVD exploits
A recent analysis of newly discovered payloads linked to the DOGE Big Balls ransomware operation reveals a complex infection chain combining open-source tools, kernel-level exploits, and psychological warfare....
Malicious npm packages hijack macOS Cursor AI IDE
The Socket Threat Research Team has uncovered a sophisticated supply chain attack targeting macOS developers using the Cursor AI code editor. Three malicious npm packages-sw-cur, sw-cur1, and aiide-cur-have...
Stealthy Linux backdoor leveraging residential proxies and NHAS reverse SSH
A recently discovered Linux backdoor (SHA256: ea41b2bf1064efcb6196bb79b40c5158fc339a36a3d3ddee68c822d797895b4e) employs advanced evasion techniques to bypass detection while establishing persistent access via SOCKS5 proxies and in-memory payload execution. This analysis breaks...
US indicts Black Kingdom ransomware operator: technical analysis of ProxyLogon exploitation and law enforcement response
The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed charges against Yemeni national Rami Khaled Ahmed (36) for deploying Black Kingdom ransomware via ProxyLogon exploits (CVE-2021-26855) against 1,500+ systems, including U.S....
Sophisticated npm malware campaign exploits Cross-Ecosystem typosquatting
A coordinated malware operation targeting npm employs cross-ecosystem typosquatting to mimic popular libraries from Python, Java, C++, and .NET ecosystems. Attackers uploaded packages like beautifulsoup4 (masquerading as Python’s...