Category: Cyber Security

Sep 17, 2025The Hacker NewsCyber Resilience / Webinar Quantum computing and AI working together will bring incredible opportunities. Together, the technologies will help us extend innovation further and faster than ever before. But, imagine the flip side, waking up to news that hackers have used a quantum computer to crack your company’s encryption overnight, exposing […]

Sep 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have tied a fresh round of cyber attacks targeting financial services to the notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider, casting doubt on their claims of going “dark.” Threat intelligence firm ReliaQuest said it has observed indications that the threat actor has shifted their focus to […]

Sep 17, 2025The Hacker NewsAI Security / Shadow IT Generative AI has gone from a curiosity to a cornerstone of enterprise productivity in just a few short years. From copilots embedded in office suites to dedicated large language model (LLM) platforms, employees now rely on these tools to code, analyze, draft, and decide. But for […]

Sep 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cybercrime The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday resentenced the former administrator of BreachForums to three years in prison in connection with his role in running the cybercrime forum and possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka Pompompurin), 22, of Peekskill, New York, pleaded guilty […]

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit said it teamed up with Cloudflare to coordinate the seizure of 338 domains used by RaccoonO365, a financially motivated threat group that was behind a phishing-as-a-service (Phaas) toolkit used to steal more than 5,000 Microsoft 365 credentials from 94 countries since July 2024. “Using a court order granted by the Southern […]

Sep 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple critical security vulnerabilities in Chaos Mesh that, if successfully exploited, could lead to cluster takeover in Kubernetes environments. “Attackers need only minimal in-cluster network access to exploit these vulnerabilities, execute the platform’s fault injections (such as shutting down pods or disrupting network communications), […]

Sep 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananAd Fraud / Mobile Security A massive ad fraud and click fraud operation dubbed SlopAds ran a cluster of 224 apps, collectively attracting 38 million downloads across 228 countries and territories. “These apps deliver their fraud payload using steganography and create hidden WebViews to navigate to threat actor-owned cashout sites, generating fraudulent […]

Sep 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Social Engineering Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new campaign that’s leveraging a variant of the FileFix social engineering tactic to deliver the StealC information stealer malware. “The observed campaign uses a highly convincing, multilingual phishing site (e.g., fake Facebook Security page), with anti-analysis techniques and advanced obfuscation to evade […]

Sep 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Spyware Apple on Monday backported fixes for a recently patched security flaw that has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-43300 (CVSS score: 8.8), an out-of-bounds write issue in the ImageIO component that could result in memory corruption when processing a malicious image file. “Apple […]

Sep 16, 2025The Hacker NewsAI Security / Enterprise Security AI agents are rapidly becoming a core part of the enterprise, being embedded across enterprise workflows, operating with autonomy, and making decisions about which systems to access and how to use them. But as agents grow in power and autonomy, so do the risks and threats. […]

Sep 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananHardware Security / Vulnerability A team of academics from ETH Zürich and Google has discovered a new variant of a RowHammer attack targeting Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory chips from South Korean semiconductor vendor SK Hynix. The RowHammer attack variant, codenamed Phoenix (CVE-2025-6202, CVSS score: 7.1), is capable of bypassing sophisticated […]

Sep 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Attack Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh software supply chain attack targeting the npm registry that has affected more than 40 packages that belong to multiple maintainers. “The compromised versions include a function (NpmModule.updatePackage) that downloads a package tarball, modifies package.json, injects a local script (bundle.js), repacks the archive, […]

Sep 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Network Security The China-aligned threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been observed using an updated version of a backdoor called TONESHELL and a previously undocumented USB worm called SnakeDisk. “The worm only executes on devices with Thailand-based IP addresses and drops the Yokai backdoor,” IBM X-Force researchers Golo Mühr […]

Attacks that target users in their web browsers have seen an unprecedented rise in recent years. In this article, we’ll explore what a “browser-based attack” is, and why they’re proving to be so effective. What is a browser-based attack? First, it’s important to establish what a browser-based attack is. In most scenarios, attackers don’t think […]

Sep 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News In a world where threats are persistent, the modern CISO’s real job isn’t just to secure technology—it’s to preserve institutional trust and ensure business continuity. This week, we saw a clear pattern: adversaries are targeting the complex relationships that hold businesses together, from supply chains to strategic partnerships. […]

A new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing tool linked to a China-based company has attracted nearly 11,000 downloads on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository, raising concerns that it could be repurposed by cybercriminals for malicious purposes. Dubbed Villager, the framework is assessed to be the work of Cyberspike, which has positioned the tools as […]

Chinese-speaking users are the target of a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that uses fake software sites to distribute malware. “The attackers manipulated search rankings with SEO plugins and registered lookalike domains that closely mimicked legitimate software sites,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Pei Han Liao said. “By using convincing language and small character substitutions, […]

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a flash alert to release indicators of compromise (IoCs) associated with two cybercriminal groups tracked as UNC6040 and UNC6395 for a string of data theft and extortion attacks. “Both groups have recently been observed targeting organizations’ Salesforce platforms via different initial access mechanisms,” the FBI said. […]

Sep 12, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Mobile Security Samsung has released its monthly security updates for Android, including a fix for a security vulnerability that it said has been exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-21043 (CVSS score: 8.8), concerns an out-of-bounds write that could result in arbitrary code execution. “Out-of-bounds Write in libimagecodec.quram.so prior to […]

Sep 12, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan Apple has notified users in France of a spyware campaign targeting their devices, according to the Computer Emergency Response Team of France (CERT-FR). The agency said the alerts were sent out on September 3, 2025, making it the fourth time this year that Apple has notified citizens in the county that […]

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new ransomware strain dubbed HybridPetya that resembles the notorious Petya/NotPetya malware, while also incorporating the ability to bypass the Secure Boot mechanism in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems using a now-patched vulnerability disclosed earlier this year. Slovakian cybersecurity company ESET said the samples were uploaded to the VirusTotal platform […]

Sep 12, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cyber Espionage The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-5086, carries a CVSS score of […]

The security landscape for cloud-native applications is undergoing a profound transformation. Containers, Kubernetes, and serverless technologies are now the default for modern enterprises, accelerating delivery but also expanding the attack surface in ways traditional security models can’t keep up with. As adoption grows, so does complexity. Security teams are asked to monitor sprawling hybrid environments, […]

A security weakness has been disclosed in the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered code editor Cursor that could trigger code execution when a maliciously crafted repository is opened using the program. The issue stems from the fact that an out-of-the-box security setting is disabled by default, opening the door for attackers to run arbitrary code on users’ […]

Sep 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Mobile Security Google on Tuesday announced that its new Google Pixel 10 phones support the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) standard out of the box to verify the origin and history of digital content. To that end, support for C2PA’s Content Credentials has been added to Pixel […]

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden has called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to probe Microsoft and hold it responsible for what he called “gross cybersecurity negligence” that enabled ransomware attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure, including against healthcare networks. “Without timely action, Microsoft’s culture of negligent cybersecurity, combined with its de facto monopolization of the enterprise […]

Sep 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalvertising / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new campaigns that are serving fake browser extensions using malicious ads and fake websites to steal sensitive data. The malvertising campaign, per Bitdefender, is designed to push fake “Meta Verified” browser extensions named SocialMetrics Pro that claim to unlock the blue check badge […]

Threat actors affiliated with the Akira ransomware group have continued to target SonicWall devices for initial access. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 said it observed a spike in intrusions involving SonicWall appliances over the past month, particularly following reports about renewed Akira ransomware activity since late July 2025. SonicWall subsequently revealed the SSL VPN activity aimed at […]

Sep 11, 2025The Hacker NewsContinuous Threat Exposure Management CISOs know their field. They understand the threat landscape. They understand how to build a strong and cost-effective security stack. They understand how to staff out their organization. They understand the intricacies of compliance. They understand what it takes to reduce risk. Yet one question comes up […]

Sep 11, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Credential Theft Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that leverages ConnectWise ScreenConnect, a legitimate Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software, to deliver a fleshless loader that drops a remote access trojan (RAT) called AsyncRAT to steal sensitive data from compromised hosts. “The attacker used ScreenConnect to gain […]