May 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptojacking / Vulnerability A financially motivated threat actor has been observed exploiting a recently disclosed remote code execution flaw affecting the Craft Content Management System (CMS) to deploy multiple payloads, including a cryptocurrency miner, a loader dubbed… Read More "Mimo Hackers Exploit CVE-2025-32432 in Craft CMS to Deploy Cryptominer and Proxyware"
May 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cybersecurity Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new malicious campaign that uses a fake website advertising antivirus software from Bitdefender to dupe victims into downloading a remote access trojan called Venom RAT. The campaign indicates a… Read More "Cybercriminals Clone Antivirus Site to Spread Venom RAT and Steal Crypto Wallets"
May 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Software Security Apple on Tuesday revealed that it prevented over $9 billion in fraudulent transactions in the last five years, including more than $2 billion in 2024 alone. The company said the App Store… Read More "Apple Blocks $9 Billion in Fraud Over 5 Years Amid Rising App Store Threats"
May 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Threat Intelligence Misconfigured Docker API instances have become the target of a new malware campaign that transforms them into a cryptocurrency mining botnet. The attacks, designed to mine for Dero currency, is notable for… Read More "New Self-Spreading Malware Infects Docker Containers to Mine Dero Cryptocurrency"
Artificial intelligence is driving a massive shift in enterprise productivity, from GitHub Copilot’s code completions to chatbots that mine internal knowledge bases for instant answers. Each new agent must authenticate to other services, quietly swelling the population of non‑human identities (NHIs)… Read More "How to Deploy AI More Securely at Scale"
Microsoft has shed light on a previously undocumented cluster of threat activity originating from a Russia-affiliated threat actor dubbed Void Blizzard (aka Laundry Bear) that it said is attributed to “worldwide cloud abuse.” Active since at least April 2024, the… Read More "Russian Hackers Breach 20+ NGOs Using Evilginx Phishing via Fake Microsoft Entra Pages"
Threat hunters have exposed a novel campaign that makes use of search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques to target employee mobile devices and facilitate payroll fraud. The activity, first detected by ReliaQuest in May 2025 targeting an unnamed customer in… Read More "Employees Searching Payroll Portals on Google Tricked Into Sending Paychecks to Hackers"
May 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Social Engineering The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of social engineering attacks mounted by a criminal extortion actor known as Luna Moth targeting law firms over the past two years. The… Read More "FBI Alerts Law Firms to Luna Moth’s Stealth Phishing Campaign"
May 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence The Russia-aligned threat actor known as TAG-110 has been observed conducting a spear-phishing campaign targeting Tajikistan using macro-enabled Word templates as an initial payload. The attack chain is a departure from the threat… Read More "Russia-Linked Hackers Target Tajikistan Government with Weaponized Word Documents"
As many as 60 malicious npm packages have been discovered in the package registry with malicious functionality to harvest hostnames, IP addresses, DNS servers, and user directories to a Discord-controlled endpoint. The packages, published under three different accounts, come with… Read More "Over 70 Malicious npm and VS Code Packages Found Stealing Data and Crypto"
