#yoba

November 1, 2026

Yoba's loader hides behind legitimately signed AI installers. Check Point traces fake "AI" GitHub projects and SEO poisoning to ZIPs pairing a signed OpenAI/Anthropic Setup.exe with a malicious winmm.dll for sideloading, then launch/locale/admin checks and long sandbox delays, a masquerading scheduled task for persistence, and payload retrieval via a Telegram plus DNS-over-HTTPS domain-generation scheme. Observed payload is a Tor-based XMRig miner, but the framework can carry anything (Security Affairs); earlier coverage. · Threat Activity