M-RAT

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Sep
One Regime, Four Fronts: Inside North Korea's Parallel Cyber Enterprise- 302

One Regime, Four Fronts: Inside North Korea's Parallel Cyber Enterprise- 302

August 8, 2026 It would be easier to track North Korea's state-linked cyber activity if it all
7 min read
27
Aug
The Long Wire: How Beijing Builds Access That Outlasts Its Cover Stories- 297

The Long Wire: How Beijing Builds Access That Outlasts Its Cover Stories- 297

August 12, 2026 Four episodes surfaced within days of each other in August 2026, and none of them, on its
5 min read
27
Aug
Borrowed Trust: How Moscow Turns Everyday Software Into an Access Network- 296

Borrowed Trust: How Moscow Turns Everyday Software Into an Access Network- 296

August 5, 2026 A fake job offer, a hijacked hotel Wi-Fi login, a criminal marketplace listing, and an advertising
6 min read
03
Aug
When cybercrime borrows a spy's toolkit: the UAT-11795 campaign hiding inside everyday software- 292

When cybercrime borrows a spy's toolkit: the UAT-11795 campaign hiding inside everyday software- 292

July 18, 2026 A financially motivated, Russian-speaking hacking crew has spent over a year quietly trojanizing the installers of
5 min read
03
Aug
Tax season as an attack surface: how a suspected Chinese hacking cluster is running parallel RAT campaigns across India, Japan, and China- 283

Tax season as an attack surface: how a suspected Chinese hacking cluster is running parallel RAT campaigns across India, Japan, and China- 283

July 7, 2026 A suspected China-nexus threat cluster has spent the current Indian tax filing season running a precisely-
3 min read
20
Jul
The Certificate Authority's Blind Spot: How a Trusted Signing Chain Became a Weapon- 255

The Certificate Authority's Blind Spot: How a Trusted Signing Chain Became a Weapon- 255

July 18, 2026 In April 2026, a routine support interaction at DigiCert — a customer service chat, a screenshot-disguised ZIP
2 min read
19
Jul
North Korea just made its malware payload host itself on the blockchain- 252

North Korea just made its malware payload host itself on the blockchain- 252

July 5, 2026 North Korean threat actors behind the long-running Contagious Interview campaign have distributed more than 100 malicious
3 min read
19
Jul
Three times through the same door: FamousSparrow's patient campaign against Azerbaijan's energy sector- 239

Three times through the same door: FamousSparrow's patient campaign against Azerbaijan's energy sector- 239

December 25, 2025 A China-linked espionage group returned to the exact same compromised Microsoft Exchange server three separate times
3 min read
05
Jul
The Door Left Open: FamousSparrow's Three-Wave Intrusion into Azerbaijani Energy Infrastructure- 187

The Door Left Open: FamousSparrow's Three-Wave Intrusion into Azerbaijani Energy Infrastructure- 187

June 7, 2026 ProxyNotShell was publicly disclosed in October 2022. The Exchange server at the center of the FamousSparrow intrusion
3 min read
19
Nov
North Korea’s KONNI Cluster Weaponizes Google’s Find My Device: A New Phase in DPRK Android Targeting- 117

North Korea’s KONNI Cluster Weaponizes Google’s Find My Device: A New Phase in DPRK Android Targeting- 117

November 18, 2025 North Korean operators from the KONNI activity cluster—affiliated with Kimsuky and APT37—have begun exploiting Google’
4 min read