Sep 16, 2025Ravie 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… Read More "SlopAds Fraud Ring Exploits 224 Android Apps to Drive 2.3 Billion Daily Ad Bids"
Sep 16, 2025Ravie 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… Read More "New FileFix Variant Delivers StealC Malware Through Multilingual Phishing Site"
Sep 16, 2025Ravie 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… Read More "Apple Backports Fix for CVE-2025-43300 Exploited in Sophisticated Spyware Attack"
Sep 16, 2025Ravie 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.… Read More "Phoenix RowHammer Attack Bypasses Advanced DDR5 Memory Protections in 109 Seconds"
Sep 16, 2025Ravie 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)… Read More "40 npm Packages Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Using bundle.js to Steal Credentials"
Sep 15, 2025Ravie 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… Read More "Mustang Panda Deploys SnakeDisk USB Worm to Deliver Yokai Backdoor on Thailand IPs"
Sep 15, 2025Ravie 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… Read More "Bootkit Malware, AI-Powered Attacks, Supply Chain Breaches, Zero-Days & More"
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,… Read More "6 Browser-Based Attacks Security Teams Need to Prepare For Right Now"
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… Read More "AI-Powered Villager Pen Testing Tool Hits 11,000 PyPI Downloads Amid Abuse Concerns"
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… Read More "HiddenGh0st, Winos and kkRAT Exploit SEO, GitHub Pages in Chinese Malware Attacks"
