Cybercriminals associated with a financially motivated group known as GoldFactory have been observed staging a fresh round of attacks targeting mobile users in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam by impersonating government services. The activity, observed since October 2024, involves distributing modified… Read More "GoldFactory Hits Southeast Asia with Modified Banking Apps Driving 11,000+ Infections"
Dec 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananDDoS Attacks / Network Security Cloudflare on Wednesday said it detected and mitigated the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that measured at 29.7 terabits per second (Tbps). The activity, the web infrastructure and security company said,… Read More "Record 29.7 Tbps DDoS Attack Linked to AISURU Botnet with up to 4 Million Infected Hosts"
Dec 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Website Security A critical security flaw impacting a WordPress plugin known as King Addons for Elementor has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-8489 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of privilege… Read More "WordPress King Addons Flaw Under Active Attack Lets Hackers Make Admin Accounts"
Dec 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cloud Security A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, carries a CVSS score of 10.0.… Read More "Critical RSC Bugs in React and Next.js Allow Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution"
Dec 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Endpoint Security Microsoft has silently plugged a security flaw that has been exploited by several threat actors since 2017 as part of the company’s November 2025 Patch Tuesday updates, according to ACROS Security’s 0patch. The… Read More "Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation"
The threat actor known as Water Saci is actively evolving its tactics, switching to a sophisticated, highly layered infection chain that uses HTML Application (HTA) files and PDFs to propagate a worm that deploys a banking trojan via WhatsApp in… Read More "Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Fraud"
Dec 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Web3 Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Rust package that’s capable of targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, and features malicious functionality to stealthily execute on developer machines by masquerading as an Ethereum Virtual… Read More "Malicious Rust Crate Delivers OS-Specific Malware to Web3 Developer Systems"
Dec 03, 2025The Hacker NewsCybercrime / Artificial Intelligence Remember when phishing emails were easy to spot? Bad grammar, weird formatting, and requests from a “Prince” in a distant country? Those days are over. Today, a 16-year-old with zero coding skills… Read More "Discover the AI Tools Fueling the Next Cybercrime Wave — Watch the Webinar"
Dec 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananMachine Learning / Vulnerability Three critical security flaws have been disclosed in an open-source utility called Picklescan that could allow malicious actors to execute arbitrary code by loading untrusted PyTorch models, effectively bypassing the tool’s protections. Picklescan,… Read More "Picklescan Bugs Allow Malicious PyTorch Models to Evade Scans and Execute Code"
Most people know the story of Paul Bunyan. A giant lumberjack, a trusted axe, and a challenge from a machine that promised to outpace him. Paul doubled down on his old way of working, swung harder, and still lost by… Read More "Turning Disruptive Technology into a Strategic Advantage"
