{"id":234890,"date":"2026-04-10T03:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/new-lucidrook-malware-used-in-targeted-attacks-on-ngos-universities"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T08:27:52","slug":"new-lucidrook-malware-used-in-targeted-attacks-on-ngos-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/new-lucidrook-malware-used-in-targeted-attacks-on-ngos-universities","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018LucidRook\u2019 malware used in targeted attacks on NGOs, universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-lucidrook-malware-used-in-targeted-attacks-on-ngos-universities2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new Lua-based malware, called LucidRook, is being used in spear-phishing campaigns targeting non-governmental organizations and universities in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>Cisco Talos researchers attribute the malware to a threat group tracked internally as UAT-10362, who they describe as a capable adversary \u201cwith mature operational tradecraft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>LucidRook was observed in attacks in October 2025 that relied on phishing emails carrying password-protected archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Lua-based malware, called LucidRook, is being used in spear-phishing campaigns targeting non-governmental organizations and universities in Taiwan. Cisco Talos researchers attribute the malware to a threat group tracked internally as UAT-10362, who they describe as a capable adversary \u201cwith mature operational tradecraft.\u201d LucidRook was observed in attacks in October 2025 that relied on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}