The challenge facing security leaders is monumental: Securing environments where failure is not an option. Reliance on traditional security postures, such as Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to chase threats after they have already entered the network, is fundamentally risky… Read More "How to Use Ringfencing to Prevent the Weaponization of Trusted Software"
Nov 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence A recently disclosed security flaw impacting 7-Zip has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to an advisory issued by the U.K. NHS England Digital on Tuesday. The vulnerability in question is… Read More "Hackers Actively Exploiting 7-Zip Symbolic Link–Based RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2025-11001)"
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that leverages a combination of social engineering and WhatsApp hijacking to distribute a Delphi-based banking trojan named Eternidade Stealer as part of attacks targeting users in Brazil. “It uses Internet Message… Read More "Python-Based WhatsApp Worm Spreads Eternidade Stealer Across Brazilian Devices"
Nov 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence A newly discovered campaign has compromised tens of thousands of outdated or end-of-life (EoL) ASUS routers worldwide, predominantly in Taiwan, the U.S., and Russia, to rope them into a massive network. The router… Read More "WrtHug Exploits Six ASUS WRT Flaws to Hijack Tens of Thousands of EoL Routers Worldwide"
Nov 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware The threat actor known as PlushDaemon has been observed using a previously undocumented Go-based network backdoor codenamed EdgeStepper to facilitate adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. EdgeStepper “redirects all DNS queries to an external, malicious hijacking… Read More "EdgeStepper Implant Reroutes DNS Queries to Deploy Malware via Hijacked Software Updates"
Nov 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Fortinet has warned of a new security flaw in FortiWeb that it said has been exploited in the wild. The medium-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-58034, carries a CVSS score of 6.7 out of… Read More "Fortinet Warns of New FortiWeb CVE-2025-58034 Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild"
Nov 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Web Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of seven npm packages published by a single threat actor that leverages a cloaking service called Adspect to differentiate between real victims and security researchers to ultimately… Read More "Seven npm Packages Use Adspect Cloaking to Trick Victims Into Crypto Scam Pages"
