Cortex Cloud Security Research

Slow Pisces Targets Developers With Coding Challenges and Introduces New Customized Python Malware

Recently, we discovered several new malware samples with unique characteristics that made attribution and function determination challenging. While many threat actors will strictly use tools released by the offensive security community, we also encounter novel, custom-built malware – sometimes with new tricks and techniques. This article describes three particularly unusual malware examples we came across last year....

Apr 14, 2025