Researchers flagged a typosquatting campaign, tracked as StubMaker, that planted sixteen malicious packages on RubyGems to deliver a Windows information stealer. The packages imitate popular Ruby dependencies with clumsy misspellings, betting that a developer will mistype a name during installation. Once installed, the malware harvests browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallets and seed phrases, and Telegram data from the developer's machine. The campaign's name refers to its trick of faking a build toolchain so a malicious install looks like a routine one. It is the latest reminder that open-source package registries remain an easy delivery route for stealers aimed at developers.
Jamf detailed a new macOS information stealer, AmnesiaStealer, spread through ClickFix lures that trick users into running a command from a fake download page. Beyond harvesting the login password, keychain, browser data, and cryptocurrency wallets, it includes a module that clones the victim's Chromium browser profile, including its logged-in state, into a hidden browser on the infected Mac and gives the attacker live remote control of it through the browser's debugging protocol. Because the session runs on the victim's own device with their real identifiers, this lets the attacker use authenticated accounts while sidestepping multi-factor authentication. Jamf calls it the first macOS malware to combine profile cloning with live remote browser control.
Researchers at Yeeth Security flagged malicious Visual Studio Code extensions named Solidity Pro that pose as tools for blockchain developers while stealing wallets and credentials. Early versions quietly fetched an encrypted payload from cloud infrastructure after a delay of up to three days and ran it outside the editor to evade quick checks. Later versions became full information stealers, collecting browser profiles, cryptocurrency wallets and seed phrases, source-control tokens, cloud credentials, API keys, and SSH private keys, then sending them out through a Telegram bot. The extensions were pulled from the Open VSX marketplace, but the project's code repository remained available.
The Arch Linux project temporarily disabled adoption of packages in its user repository, the AUR, after a wave of malicious takeovers of existing packages. Attackers seized packages through compromised maintainer accounts or by adopting orphaned ones, then shipped a Rust-based infostealer that grabs browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, password manager data, cloud and developer secrets, AI service API keys, and SSH keys. It also opens remote command execution over an encrypted Tor channel and spreads to other machines using stolen SSH keys. A researcher tracking the campaign claims more than 200 packages were hit, including some popular ones, though that list is not independently confirmed.
Group-IB detailed ClickLock, a macOS infostealer that coerces victims into handing over their login password. It arrives when a user is tricked into pasting a command into Terminal from a fake verification page, then shows a fake system dialog asking for the password. If the victim refuses, ClickLock begins killing core apps like Finder, the Dock, and browsers every 210 milliseconds, leaving only a password box on an unusable desktop, while also suppressing security notifications. Once the password is entered, it steals the Keychain, browser credentials, and cryptocurrency wallets and sends them to a Telegram bot. Group-IB counted at least 100 targets across 33 countries, over half in Europe.
Jamf detailed CrashStealer, a macOS infostealer delivered through a signed, Apple-notarized app called Werkbit that passes Gatekeeper, since it carried a valid developer ID before Apple revoked it. Distributed as a disk image and gated behind a meeting PIN so it is served only to targeted visitors, the malware validates the victim's login password locally, then harvests broadly from browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, password managers, and the keychain, encrypting the loot before sending it out. It persists by copying and re-signing itself. There is no zero-click stage: a victim still runs the app and enters their password, but the notarized delivery and careful targeting make it more convincing than typical Mac stealers.
Attackers used a stolen publishing credential to push malicious versions of the jscrambler npm package that install a Rust infostealer as soon as the package is added to a project. Socket ties five bad versions to the same actor, published over about three hours; the malware ships as native binaries for Windows, macOS, and Linux and sweeps developer machines for cloud credentials, crypto wallets, and password-manager vaults. Because jscrambler is a build-time tool used in development and CI, the stealer runs where deploy tokens, cloud keys, and source code live. Partway through, the dropper moved into the package's main code, so installing with scripts disabled does not stop it.
Jamf Threat Labs found a new macOS infostealer, PamStealer, that impersonates Maccy, a popular open-source clipboard manager, through a fake website. Victims download what looks like a Maccy installer but is a malicious AppleScript that quietly fetches a Rust-based stealer. Its standout trick is how it grabs the login password: it shows a native-looking prompt saying "Maccy wants to make changes" and validates whatever the user types against macOS's own Pluggable Authentication Modules, so it only keeps a confirmed-correct password and avoids the noisy process calls other stealers make. The second stage hides as Finder, encrypts its traffic, and delays its Full Disk Access request to avoid suspicion.
A new information stealer called Djinn is being used to grab cloud and AI service credentials, Dark Reading reports. Attackers deliver it by exploiting CVE-2026-48558, a critical authentication-bypass flaw in the SimpleHelp remote-management tool, then use Djinn to target the credentials that link developer and administrator environments to broader enterprise systems. The focus on cloud and AI secrets reflects where valuable access now lives: API keys and tokens for cloud platforms and AI services can unlock far more than a single machine. Organizations that run SimpleHelp, especially unpatched instances, are the immediate exposure point for this credential theft.
SentinelOne detailed Gaslight, a Rust-based macOS backdoor and information stealer tied with high confidence to North Korea, whose standout trick targets the analyst rather than the sandbox. The sample embeds a block of 38 fabricated "system" messages, formatted to mimic the prompt scaffolding of an AI triage assistant, that try to make an LLM-assisted analysis tool doubt its session and abort, truncate, or refuse the analysis. Beyond that, Gaslight steals browser data, Keychain secrets, and command history, using a Telegram bot for command and control and self-redacting its bot token from its own output. It is an early example of malware built to weaponize the AI tools now common in reverse engineering.
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