Nov 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability The botnet malware known as RondoDox has been observed targeting unpatched XWiki instances against a critical security flaw that could allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-24893 (CVSS… Read More "RondoDox Exploits Unpatched XWiki Servers to Pull More Devices Into Its Botnet"
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday announced that five individuals have pleaded guilty to assisting North Korea’s illicit revenue generation schemes by enabling information technology (IT) worker fraud in violation of international sanctions. The five individuals are listed… Read More "Five U.S. Citizens Plead Guilty to Helping North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate 136 Companies"
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. The activity, detected in early September 2025… Read More "Iranian Hackers Launch ‘SpearSpecter’ Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets"
Nov 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage malicious payloads. “The threat actors have recently resorted to utilizing… Read More "North Korean Hackers Turn JSON Services into Covert Malware Delivery Channels"
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including those from Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open-source PyTorch projects such as vLLM and SGLang. “These vulnerabilities all traced back to the same root… Read More "Researchers Find Serious AI Bugs Exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft Inference Frameworks"
State-sponsored threat actors from China used artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by Anthropic to orchestrate automated cyber attacks as part of a “highly sophisticated espionage campaign” in mid-September 2025. “The attackers used AI’s ‘agentic’ capabilities to an unprecedented degree –… Read More "Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic’s AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign"
Key Takeaways: 85 active ransomware and extortion groups observed in Q3 2025, reflecting the most decentralized ransomware ecosystem to date. 1,590 victims disclosed across 85 leak sites, showing high, sustained activity despite law-enforcement pressure. 14 new ransomware brands launched this… Read More "Ransomware’s Fragmentation Reaches a Breaking Point While LockBit Returns"
Nov 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alert about an authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb WAF that could allow an attacker to take over admin accounts and completely compromise a device. “The watchTowr team… Read More "Now-Patched Fortinet FortiWeb Flaw Exploited in Attacks to Create Admin Accounts"
A Russian-speaking threat behind an ongoing, mass phishing campaign has registered more than 4,300 domain names since the start of the year. The activity, per Netcraft security researcher Andrew Brandt, is designed to target customers of the hospitality industry, specifically… Read More "Russian Hackers Create 4,300 Fake Travel Sites to Steal Hotel Guests’ Payment Data"
Nov 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Cybercrime Malware families like Rhadamanthys Stealer, Venom RAT, and the Elysium botnet have been disrupted as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation led by Europol and Eurojust. The activity, which is taking place between… Read More "Operation Endgame Dismantles Rhadamanthys, Venom RAT, and Elysium Botnet in Global Crackdown"
