> SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 104

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Hijacked npm Packages Use Novel VSCode Autorun and Blockchain Dead Drops to Deploy a Credential/Crypto Stealer   Building a CI/CD pipeline for Sigma rules   Inside StegoAd: How a Threat Actor Evolved to Fuel Silent Ad Fraud and Credential Theft at Scale  A Djinn in the Machine: TaskWeaver’s Node.js Intrusion Chain   Chromium extension uses AI‑related branding to redirect browser search   Mustang Panda targets India’s government and energy sectors with ZOHOMURK and MINIRECON   RustDuck: An In-Depth Analysis of a Two-Stage Botnet   From Langflow to Monero: Inside CVE-2026-33017 Cryptominer   The SOC Files: ScreenConnect masked as freeware. An inside look at a large-scale campaign Veil#Drop: Blogspot-Hosted PowerShell Loader Delivers PureLog Stealer Through XOR-Encoded In-Memory .NET Payloads Analysis of Ongoing Ousaban Attacks Targeting the Iberian Peninsula     Browser-Only Ransomware: From LLM Hallucinations to a Practical Attack Technique       Popa: From Sourcing to Distribution   From CitrixBleed 2 to Cloudflared: The Tools and Techniques Behind Anubis Ransomware Attacks       ToddyCat: your hidden email assistant. Part 2  PamStealer: a Rust-based macOS infostealer that validates credentials through PAM Analysis of Ongoing Ousaban Attacks Targeting the Iberian Peninsula JADEPUFFER: Agentic ransomware for automated database extortion         Don’t Eat The ChocoPoCs! How Vulnerability Researchers Were Repeatedly Targeted By Trojanised Exploits PolinRider: North Korea-Linked Supply Chain Campaign Expands Across Open Source Ecosystems       Lazarus-Linked npm Malware Masquerades as Rollup Polyfills Cloak and Detonate: Scanner Evasion and Dynamic Detection of Agent Skill Malware AI-Generated PowerShell Malware: An Experimental Framework and Dataset A Lightweight Framework for Android Malware Detection via SDAE-Based Multi-View Static Feature Fusion Addressing Data Scarcity in Malware Classification via Pixel-Level Synthetic Image Generation Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)