> SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 82

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter KONNI Adopts AI to Generate PowerShell Backdoors   Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet? Weaponized in China, Deployed in India: The SyncFuture Espionage Targeted Campaign Android Trojan Campaign Uses Hugging Face Hosting for RAT Payload Delivery  MaliciousCorgi: The Cute-Looking AI Extensions Leaking Code from 1.5 Million Developers Inside a Multi-Stage Windows Malware Campaign PeckBirdy: A Versatile Script Framework for LOLBins Exploitation Used by China-aligned Threat Groups Can’t stop, won’t stop: TA584 innovates initial access   Dissecting UAT-8099: New persistence mechanisms and regional focus      Malicious Chrome Extension Performs Hidden Affiliate Hijacking  Open-Source Python Script Drives Social Media Phishing Campaign  Energy Sector Incident Report – 29 December 2025  FARM: Few-shot Adaptive Malware Family Classification under Concept Drift CAFE-GB: Scalable and Stable Feature Selection for Malware Detection via Chunk-wise Aggregated Gradient Boosting A Fractional Framework for Modeling Malicious Code Spread in Wireless Sensor NetworksRe-Evaluating Android Malware Detection: Tabular Features, Vision Models, and Ensembles Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – malware, newsletter)