> SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 119

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter IronChain Ransomware Threatens Businesses with Permanent Data Loss and Costly Downtime   AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter XWorm Reborn: From infostealer to surveillance platform  Hirudo: From Fake Updates to Patched Banking Apps   The campaign that never stopped: tracking GhostAction from 2025 to 2026   Exposing AdFection How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware BREAK THE SILENCE: TRACKING SILENT LYNX THROUGH EXPOSED INFRASTRUCTURE Unit 42 Uncovers PEERSTITCH, a Stealthy FortiGate Implant   An Italian Phishing Campaign Delivering an iOS Exploit Chain  Malfex imgdecode npm native addon loader CikaBika Bot: Inside a Discord RAT Trigger Value Selection in Clean-Label Malware Backdoors: An Effectiveness-Detectability Analysis Phantomware: a Data Augmentation Framework for the Detection of Emerging Malware Campaigns XGCN-GAT: An Explainable and Robustness-Aware Hybrid Graph Neural Network Framework for Android Malware Detection Geometry-Aware Risk-Guided Active Learning for Malware Concept Drift Adaptation  Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)