> SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 79

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter VVS Discord Stealer Using Pyarmor for Obfuscation and Detection Evasion   A Broken System Fueling Botnets Malicious NPM Packages Deliver NodeCordRAT     Boto-Cor-de-Rosa campaign reveals Astaroth WhatsApp-based worm activity in Brazil CNCERT: Risk Warning Regarding the “Black Cat” Gang’s Use of Search Engines to Spread Counterfeit Notepad++ Download Remote Control Backdoors UAC-0184 | “The Dark Side of the Fallen Files” Pitching Operation Analyzing PHALT#BLYX: How Fake BSODs and Trusted Build Tools Are Used to Construct a Malware Infection The Mac Malware of 2025   UAT-7290 targets high value telecommunications infrastructure in South Asia Integrating NLP and Ensemble Learning into Next-Generation Firewalls for Robust Malware Detection in Edge Computing A Review of Mobile Surveillanceware: Capabilities, Countermeasures, and Research Challenges MAD-OOD: A Deep Learning Cluster-Driven Framework for an Out-of-Distribution Malware Detection and Classification Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)