Nov 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananSpyware / Mobile Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday issued an alert warning of bad actors actively leveraging commercial spyware and remote access trojans (RATs) to target users of mobile messaging applications.… Read More "CISA Warns of Active Spyware Campaigns Hijacking High-Value Signal and WhatsApp Users"
Nov 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News This week saw a lot of new cyber trouble. Hackers hit Fortinet and Chrome with new 0-day bugs. They also broke into supply chains and SaaS tools. Many hid inside trusted apps, browser… Read More "Fortinet Exploit, Chrome 0-Day, BadIIS Malware, Record DDoS, SaaS Breach & More"
Nov 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Container Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open-source and lightweight telemetry agent, that could be chained to compromise and take over cloud infrastructures. The security defects “allow attackers to bypass… Read More "New Fluent Bit Flaws Expose Cloud to RCE and Stealthy Infrastructure Intrusions"
Nov 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Multiple security vendors are sounding the alarm about a second wave of attacks targeting the npm registry in a manner that’s reminiscent of the Shai-Hulud attack. The new supply chain campaign, dubbed Sha1-Hulud,… Read More "Second Sha1-Hulud Wave Affects 25,000+ Repositories via npm Preinstall Credential Theft"
New research from CrowdStrike has revealed that DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 produces more security vulnerabilities in response to prompts that contain topics deemed politically sensitive by China. “We found that when DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the… Read More "Chinese DeepSeek-R1 AI Generates Insecure Code When Prompts Mention Tibet or Uyghurs"
Nov 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability A recently patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has been exploited by threat actors to distribute malware known as ShadowPad. “The attacker targeted Windows Servers with WSUS enabled, exploiting CVE-2025-59287… Read More "ShadowPad Malware Actively Exploits WSUS Vulnerability for Full System Access"
Nov 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Cloud Security The China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as APT31 has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting the Russian information technology (IT) sector between 2024 and 2025 while staying undetected for extended… Read More "China-Linked APT31 Launches Stealthy Cyberattacks on Russian IT Using Cloud Services"
Nov 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Software Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical security flaw impacting Oracle Identity Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability… Read More "CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Critical Oracle Identity Manager Zero-Day Vulnerability"
Bad actors are leveraging browser notifications as a vector for phishing attacks to distribute malicious links by means of a new command-and-control (C2) platform called Matrix Push C2. “This browser-native, fileless framework leverages push notifications, fake alerts, and link redirects… Read More "Matrix Push C2 Uses Browser Notifications for Fileless, Cross-Platform Phishing Attacks"
A China-nexus threat actor known as APT24 has been observed using a previously undocumented malware dubbed BADAUDIO to establish persistent remote access to compromised networks as part of a nearly three-year campaign. “While earlier operations relied on broad strategic web… Read More "APT24 Deploys BADAUDIO in Years-Long Espionage Hitting Taiwan and 1,000+ Domains"
