A Chinese-speaking cybercrime group has expanded its targeting to the European space, deploying previously undocumented malware and the Atlas backdoor. Tracked as TA4922, the threat actor is ...

A hardware fault injection attack results in the first Xbox One boot ROM-level compromise after 12 years.

Writing my own virtualized loader is something I’ve been wanting to do since I first read Microsoft’s deep dive on FinFisher’s multi-layered VM obfuscation back in 2018. FinFisher didn’t just use one ...

Your code runs inside svchost.exe. Network connections appear from a trusted Windows process. Basic security tools see nothing suspicious. This is process injection and understanding it changes how ...

Our tracking of OceanLotus activities from 2024–2026 reveals a shift in operational focus. During this period, the Vietnam-aligned OceanLotus adopted a more selective approach to external operations ...

ThreatsDay Bulletin covers AI abuse, poisoned packages, phishing, macOS attacks, SD-WAN flaws, scams, and supply-chain ...

ESET researchers have discovered SprySOCKS for Windows, FishMonger’s backdoor weaponizing a kernel driver for advanced ...

Cybersecurity roundup: supply chain threats, AI agent risks, browser-cloning malware, mule networks, endpoint bypasses, and ...

No imports. No PE header. No loader. Just bytes that execute wherever you put them. This is shellcode. It's the raw material of exploitation. Let's understand it fully. 🤔 Why Does Shellcode Exist?

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