TL;DR Cristóbal Tárraga García, a member of the WatchGuard Threat Lab, uncovered a malware loader targeting Portuguese-speaking users that uses an Ethereum smart contract to dynamically locate attacker infrastructure and distribute additional payloads. The multi-stage infection chain combines…
TL;DR Euler Neto, a member of the WatchGuard Threat Lab identified an active malware campaign using the ErrTraffic Malware-as-a-Service framework to distribute multiple threats through compromised WordPress websites, ClickFix social engineering, and EtherHiding. The campaign uses Polygon blockchain…
Artificial intelligence is no longer just helping cybersecurity teams analyze alerts, write code, or investigate threats. Increasingly capable AI models can now reason through cybersecurity problems, identify vulnerabilities, chain weaknesses together, and autonomously pursue an objective. That…
TL;DR: OpenAI models under evaluation reportedly escaped a restricted lab environment, exploited a zero-day vulnerability to gain internet access, and targeted Hugging Face while attempting to solve a cybersecurity benchmark. The incident highlights the growing risk of autonomous AI-driven attacks…
WatchGuard telemetry identified a campaign associated to TimbreStealer, which is known to target companies based in Mexico. This research, conducted by Euler Neto and Cristóbal Tárraga, describes behaviors similar to those observed in a previous campaign documented by Cisco Talos in 2024, which uses…
TL;DR: Iran-linked MuddyWater, also known as Seedworm, is using trusted software, DLL side-loading, and legitimate tools to quietly spy on high-value organizations across manufacturing, aviation, finance, education, government, and public sector environments. This campaign is not focused on…
The WatchGuard Attestation Team has uncovered an undocumented pivot framework written in Golang that opens a Smux-multiplexed SOCKS5-style pivot channel on each compromised host using one of two interchangeable transports: KCP-over-UDP with DTLS obfuscation or Noise-over-TCP with TLS obfuscation…
Artificial intelligence, exposed edge devices, and vulnerability disclosure are colliding in ways that security teams can no longer treat as separate risks. In Episode 375 of The 443: Security Simplified, WatchGuard’s Marc Laliberte and Corey Nachreiner unpack three timely cybersecurity stories: the…
WatchGuard telemetry identified a campaign associated to Grandoreiro that uses the DLL Side-Loading technique abusing four different softwares, targeting banks in Portugal. Also, it was identified cases of a known campaign that uses a malicious VBS to deliver the malware, targeting companies in…
I remember my first real dev setup. A beige tower, a copy of Turbo C++, and a dial-up connection that screamed like a fax machine having an existential crisis. The workstation was an island. What lived on it stayed on it. The biggest security risk was a floppy disk from a friend, and even then, you…