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Types of Malware in 2025: What Tactics Do Hackers Use Most?

Discover the types of malware in 2025, from backdoors to ransomware, and learn which families hackers use most in real-world attacks.
CSO Online

XWorm campaign shows a shift toward fileless malware and in-memory evasion tactics

The multi-stage attack uses encrypted shellcode, steganography, and reflective DLL loads to deploy XWorm without leaving ...
The Hacker News

EvilAI Malware Masquerades as AI Tools to Infiltrate Global Organizations

The campaign has been codenamed EvilAI by Trend Micro, describing the attackers behind the operation as "highly capable" ...
The Security Ledger

SquareX Shows AI Browsers Fall Prey to OAuth Attacks, Malware Downloads and Malicious Link Distribution

As AI Browsers rapidly gain adoption across enterprises, SquareX has released critical security research exposing major ...

Chinese malware is flooding GitHub pages - HiddenGh0st, Winos and kkRAT hit devs via SEO poisoning

Chinese users looking to download popular browsers and communications software are being targeted by different malware variants, granting attackers remote access capabilities. This is according to ...

Look out - these fake Microsoft Teams installers are just spreading dangerous malware

Security researchers from Blackpoint SOC recently discovered a fraudulent Microsoft Teams downloads page hosted at ...
Dark Reading

Secretive MaaS Group 'TAG-150' Develops Novel 'CastleRAT' Secretive MaaS Group 'TAG-150' Develops Novel 'CastleRAT'Secretive MaaS Group 'TAG-150' Develops Novel 'CastleRAT'

A young malware-as-a-service (MaaS) operation has been outed, shortly after the debut of its newest custom remote access Trojans (RATs). Plenty of questions still remain though, about the group that ...
CRN

First Mac OS X Malware Infects Via iChat

Dubbed "OSX/Leap.a" by McAfee, Sophos, and Symantec, the malware spreads using the Mac's built-in iChat instant messaging service, where it arrives as an IM file transfer. If the recipient opens the ...
Canadian Underwriter

Cyber threat: Where Canada ranks for malware attacks

Impersonation of well-known brands remains a widespread tactic among cybercriminals, which increasingly affects internet ...
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Spot Malware That Even Seasoned Programmers Often Miss

ThioJoe shows how to spot malware that even experienced programmers often miss. Authorities investigate after Russia-linked ...