> SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 72

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Contagious Interview Actors Now Utilize JSON Storage Services for Malware Delivery RONINGLOADER: DragonBreath’s New Path to PPL Abuse   npm Malware Campaign Uses Adspect Cloaking to Deliver Malicious Redirects  GPT Trade: Fake Google Play Store drops BTMob Spyware and UASecurity Miner on Android Devices   Cooking up trouble: How TamperedChef uses signed apps to deliver stealthy payloads   Sturnus: Mobile Banking Malware bypassing WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal Encryption  LLM-generated malware is improving, but don’t expect autonomous attacks tomorrow Threat actors have reportedly launched yet another campaign involving an application connected to Salesforce Blockchain and Node.js abused by Tsundere: an emerging botnet      Beyond the Watering Hole: APT24’s Pivot to Multi-Vector Attacks LFreeDA: Label-Free Drift Adaptation for Windows Malware Detection Machine Learning Epidemic Predictions Using Agent-based Wireless Sensor Network Models Interpretable Ransomware Detection Using Hybrid Large Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of BERT, RoBERTa, and DeBERTa Through LIME and SHAP Improving the Performance of Static Malware Classification Using Deep Learning Models and Feature Reduction Strategies AI-Driven Cybersecurity in IoT: Adaptive Malware Detection and Lightweight Encryption via TRIM-SEC Framework Lightweight Quantized XGBoost for Botnet Detection in Resource-Constrained IoT Networks Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)