SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER – ROUND 26

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape.————————————————————————————————————————————–[Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Using LLMs to Obfuscate Malicious JavaScript](https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/using-llms-obfuscate-malicious-javascript/)[Analyzing Malicious Intent in Python Code: A Case Study](https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/analyzing-malicious-intent-in-python-code)[DigiEver Fix That IoT Thing!](https://www.akamai.com/blog/security-research/digiever-fix-that-iot-thing)[Botnets Continue to Target Aging D-Link Vulnerabilities](https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/botnets-continue-to-target-aging-d-link-vulnerabilities)[OtterCookie, a new malware used by Contagious Interview](https://jp.security.ntt/tech_blog/contagious-interview-ottercookie)[Lazarus group evolves its infection chain with old and new malware](https://securelist.com/lazarus-new-malware/115059/)[BellaCPP: Discovering a new BellaCiao variant written in C++](https://securelist.com/bellacpp-cpp-version-of-bellaciao/115087/)[Recent Cases of Watering Hole Attacks, Part 2](https://blogs.jpcert.or.jp/en/2024/12/watering_hole_attack_part2.html)[On the Effectiveness of Adversarial Training on Malware Classifiers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18218)[Can LLMs Obfuscate Code? A Systematic Analysis of Large Language Models into Assembly Code Obfuscation](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.16135)[A Paradigm for Modeling Infectious Diseases: Assessing Malware Spread in Early-Stage Outbreaks](https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/13/1/91)[A Lightweight Malware Detection Model Based on Knowledge Distillation](https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/12/24/4009)Follow me on Twitter: [**@securityaffairs**](https://twitter.com/securityaffairs) and [**Facebook**](https://www.facebook.com/sec.affairs) and [Mastodon](https://infosec.exchange/@securityaffairs)[**Pierluigi Paganini**](http://www.linkedin.com/pub/pierluigi-paganini/b/742/559)**(** [**SecurityAffairs**](http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/)**–** **hacking, **malware**)**

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