Oct 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Network Security A European telecommunications organization is said to have been targeted by a threat actor that aligns with a China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Salt Typhoon. The organization, per Darktrace, was targeted… Read More "Hackers Used Snappybee Malware and Citrix Flaw to Breach European Telecom Network"
Oct 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence A new malware attributed to the Russia-linked hacking group known as COLDRIVER has undergone numerous developmental iterations since May 2025, suggesting an increased “operations tempo” from the threat actor. The findings come… Read More "Google Identifies Three New Russian Malware Families Created by COLDRIVER Hackers"
Oct 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Data Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, officially confirming a recently disclosed vulnerability impacting Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS)… Read More "Five New Exploited Bugs Land in CISA’s Catalog — Oracle and Microsoft Among Targets"
Oct 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a coordinated campaign that leveraged 131 rebranded clones of a WhatsApp Web automation extension for Google Chrome to spam Brazilian users at scale. The 131 spamware extensions share the… Read More "131 Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking WhatsApp Web for Massive Spam Campaign"
ClickFix, FileFix, fake CAPTCHA — whatever you call it, attacks where users interact with malicious scripts in their web browser are a fast-growing source of security breaches. ClickFix attacks prompt the user to solve some kind of problem or challenge… Read More "3 Reasons Why Copy/Paste Attacks Are Driving Security Breaches"
It’s easy to think your defenses are solid — until you realize attackers have been inside them the whole time. The latest incidents show that long-term, silent breaches are becoming the norm. The best defense now isn’t just patching fast,… Read More "F5 Breached, Linux Rootkits, Pixnapping Attack, EtherHiding & More"
Oct 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / National Security China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of carrying out a “premeditated” cyber attack targeting the National Time Service Center (NTSC), as it described the U.S. as a “hacker… Read More "MSS Claims NSA Used 42 Cyber Tools in Multi-Stage Attack on Beijing Time Systems"
Oct 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananSIM Swapping / Cryptocurrency Europol on Friday announced the disruption of a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that operated a SIM farm and enabled its customers to carry out a broad spectrum of crimes ranging from phishing to… Read More "Europol Dismantles SIM Farm Network Powering 49 Million Fake Accounts Worldwide"
Oct 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign that has likely targeted the Russian automobile and e-commerce sectors with a previously undocumented .NET malware dubbed CAPI Backdoor. According to Seqrite Labs, the… Read More "New .NET CAPI Backdoor Targets Russian Auto and E-Commerce Firms via Phishing ZIPs"
The threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 (aka ValleyRAT) have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target Japan and Malaysia with another remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as HoldingHands RAT (aka Gh0stBins). “The… Read More "Silver Fox Expands Winos 4.0 Attacks to Japan and Malaysia via HoldingHands RAT"
