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Fake AI trading agent steals crypto wallet passwordsnew

Fake AI crypto trading agent sites deliver Needle Stealer, which replaces browser wallet extensions to steal wallet passwords, HP reports.

HP researchers tracked campaigns between April and June 2026 in which a fake AI trading agent site, tradingclaw[.]pro, distributed a Microsoft-signed OLEView executable that DLL side-loads a malicious iviewers.dll and launches Needle Stealer via process hollowing. Needle replaces one of seven browser wallet extensions, including MetaMask, Coinbase Wallet, and Phantom, to capture wallet passwords. Related campaigns used QR-code invoice phishing leading to fake OneDrive pages, Phantom Stealer sold as a penetration testing tool with VBScript-to-PowerShell steganographic loaders, and image-hidden payloads delivering XWorm, PureLogs Stealer, and Formbook; a perceptual-hash VirusTotal search found about 400 distinct rigged images.

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PAPERMILL Malware Campaign Abuses Signed Notepad++ to Deliver VenomRAT to Windows Users

JUMPSEC tracks PAPERMILL, a China-nexus phishing campaign using a signed Notepad++ binary, libcurl.dll sideloading, and Donut loaders to deploy VenomRAT against Indian tax-audit targets.

PAPERMILL delivers ISO disk images via tax-audit phishing emails that passed SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, containing a renamed Authenticode-signed Notepad++ executable and a malicious libcurl.dll that proxies curl functions while executing loader logic in DllMain. The chain uses Mark-of-the-Web bypasses, anti-sandbox sleeps, UAC elevation prompts, Registry persistence, and a Donut shellcode loader to reflectively load .NET VenomRAT v6.0.3 with HVNC and credential-stealing capability, with C2 at 154.36.188.201:4449. JUMPSEC assesses the campaign as China-nexus, financially motivated, and Silver Fox-adjacent rather than definitively Silver Fox-operated.

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