BleepingComputer reports that Netgear and Hyundai Middle East & Africa had their official accounts on X, formerly Twitter, compromised to facilitate the distribution of cryptocurrency wallet drainer malware.

Newly emergent stealthy remote access trojan Silver RAT has been aggressively marketed by suspected Syrian threat operation Anonymous Arabic across various social media and hacking sites, reports The Hacker News.

Jobs and Money, QNAP, NIST, Spectral Blur, Stuxnet, Swatting, Volkswagen, Jason Wood, and more on this Edition of the Security Weekly News.

Several organizations, including those managing U.S. critical infrastructure, have been targeted by an AsyncRAT malware campaign during the past 11 months, BleepingComputer reports.

Attacks with an updated iteration of the Bandook remote access trojan have been launched against Windows machines, reports The Hacker News.

The Register reports that significant outages have impacted Orange Spain, the country's second-largest network provider, following the compromise of its account with RIPE, the regional internet registry used by Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

Dubbed "the first malware of 2024,” SpectralBlur uniquely uses a pseudo-terminal to remotely execute commands.