Threat actors have been distributing a new Agent Tesla malware variant in attacks leveraging a lure file with the ZPAQ file compression format with improved compression ratios and journaling functionality over the RAR and ZIP formats, according to The Hacker News.

VX-Underground told SC Media the attempted frame-job would likely have little impact except to “make us look like jerks.”

Earlier this month it was Looney Tunables, now Kinsing launched attacks on Apache ActiveMQ to infect systems with malware and cryptominers.

Widely known malware-sharing community VX-Underground has been implicated by a new Phobos ransomware variant to be the developer of the updated strain, reports BleepingComputer.

QakBot trojan tactics live on in DarkGate, PikaBot malware attacks Attack techniques once used to disseminate the dismantled QakBot trojan, also known as QBot and Pinkslipbot, have been leveraged in a new widespread phishing campaign involving the DarkGate and PikaBot strains aimed at various industries, according to The Hacker News.

Attacks involving the NetSupport RAT have become increasingly common, The Hacker News reports.

Outpost24 researchers expect LummaC2 4.0 malware to evolve with improved obfuscation techniques and updates to its control panel.

An advisory released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency details the background, composition, and tactics of the threat actor collective Scattered Spider, according to BleepingComputer.