New ‘Brokewell’ Android Malware Spread Through Fake Browser Updates

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Fake browser updates are being used to push a previously undocumented Android malware called Brokewell. "Brokewell is a typical modern banking malware equipped with both data-stealing and remote-control capabilities built into the malware," Dutch security firm ThreatFabric said in an analysis published Thursday. The malware is said to be in active development,
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Hackers Exploiting WP-Automatic Plugin Bug to Create Admin Accounts on WordPress Sites

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Threat actors are attempting to actively exploit a critical security flaw in the WP‑Automatic plugin for WordPress that could allow site takeovers. The shortcoming, tracked as CVE-2024-27956, carries a CVSS score of 9.9 out of a maximum of 10. It impacts all versions of the plugin prior to 3.9.2.0. "This vulnerability, a SQL injection (SQLi) flaw, poses a severe threat as
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North Korea’s Lazarus Group Deploys New Kaolin RAT via Fake Job Lures

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The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Lazarus Group employed its time-tested fabricated job lures to deliver a new remote access trojan called Kaolin RAT. The malware could, "aside from standard RAT functionality, change the last write timestamp of a selected file and load any received DLL binary from [command-and-control] server," Avast security researcher Luigino
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