The campaign commences with a spear-phishing email containing a ZIP archive with a malicious LNK file written in Pashto, designed to exploit the familiarity of the language within the Afghan government.
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CVE-2026-48095: 7-Zip Heap Buffer Overflow Can Lead to Code Execution
CVE-2026-48095 in 7-Zip has raised fresh concerns around malicious archive handling and user-driven exploitation. According to GitHub Security Lab, the flaw is a heap buffer write overflow in 7-Zip’s NTFS archive handler that affects version 26.00 and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution or application crashes. The issue was fixed in 7-Zip 26.01, released…
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Obfuscated JavaScript or Nothing, (Thu, Apr 9th)
I spotted an interesting piece of JavaScript code that was delivered via a phishing email in a RAR archive. The file was called “cbmjlzan.JS” (SHA256:a8ba9ba93b4509a86e3d7dd40fd0652c2743e32277760c5f7942b788b74c5285) and is only identified as malicious by 15 AV’s on VirusTotal[1]. The file is pretty big (10MB) and contains a copy of the AsmDB project lib[2]. The purpose is unknown.…
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Third-Party Patching and the Business Footprint We All Share
Everyday tools like PDF readers, email clients, and archive utilities quietly define the real attack surface. Action1 explains how third-party software drift increases exploit risk and why consistent patching reduces exposure across endpoints. […]