ACCORDING to Security Affairs, the Malware Newsletter Round 82 presents a curated collection of recent malware research and related industry insights, highlighting notable trends across the international threat landscape. The issue showcases items such as KONNI adopting AI to generate PowerShell backdoors and analyses of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, alongside investigations into espionage campaigns like SyncFuture and a Haunting of Hugging Face-hosted RAT campaigns.
It also features coverage of threats ranging from MaliciousCorgi AI extensions leaking developer code to multi-stage Windows malware campaigns and LOLBins exploitation frameworks. The newsletter includes pointers to open-source tools and academic developments, including studies on adaptive malware classification, persistence mechanisms, and new phishing and social media attack campaigns.
Published on 2 February 2026 by Pierluigi Paganini, the digest frames these pieces as part of a broader Malware Newsletter meant to track evolving tactics, techniques and procedures. For readers seeking a concise briefing on malware trends and key research, the issue aggregates linked analyses and recent findings in one accessible summary.