WhatsApp phishing attack uses fake business docs to hack PCs

2026-06-23T01:23:29Z2f8802e41a772411c74b097fd9721c72e50be43f083748594d6b8ea0e4d4c539
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What happened

The collection highlights a broad surge in active threats across messaging phishing, supply-chain, credential-theft, and infrastructure compromise. Notable incidents include a WhatsApp phishing campaign delivering VBScript to gain remote access; the FortiBleed campaign using custom sniffers to harvest FortiGate credentials; a newly disclosed FFmpeg 'PixelSmash' flaw enabling potential RCE/DoS in widely used multimedia stacks; a Mastra AI npm supply-chain compromise attributed to North Korean actor Sapphire Sleet/BlueNoroff; the Klue OAuth breach and related Icarus extortion claims; a large Tex

Why it matters

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Evidence and limitations

Source ID
bleepingcomputer
Record identifier
2f8802e41a772411c74b097fd9721c72e50be43f083748594d6b8ea0e4d4c539
Enrichment time
2026-06-23T01:23:29Z
AI-assisted enrichment
Yes

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