May 26, 2025The Hacker NewsData Privacy / Web Security Are your web privacy controls protecting your users, or just a box-ticking exercise? This CISO’s guide provides a practical roadmap for continuous web privacy validation that’s aligned with real-world practices. –… Read More "CISO’s Guide To Web Privacy Validation And Why It’s Important"
May 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News Cyber threats don’t show up one at a time anymore. They’re layered, planned, and often stay hidden until it’s too late. For cybersecurity teams, the key isn’t just reacting to alerts—it’s spotting early… Read More "APT Campaigns, Browser Hijacks, AI Malware, Cloud Breaches and Critical CVEs"
May 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Software Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a malware campaign that uses fake software installers masquerading as popular tools like LetsVPN and QQ Browser to deliver the Winos 4.0 framework. The campaign, first detected by… Read More "Hackers Use Fake VPN and Browser NSIS Installers to Deliver Winos 4.0 Malware"
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an indirect prompt injection flaw in GitLab’s artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Duo that could have allowed attackers to steal source code and inject untrusted HTML into its responses, which could then be used to direct victims… Read More "GitLab Duo Vulnerability Enabled Attackers to Hijack AI Responses with Hidden Prompts"
The malware known as Latrodectus has become the latest to embrace the widely-used social engineering technique called ClickFix as a distribution vector. “The ClickFix technique is particularly risky because it allows the malware to execute in memory rather than being… Read More "Hackers Use TikTok Videos to Distribute Vidar and StealC Malware via ClickFix Technique"
From zero-day exploits to large-scale bot attacks — the demand for a powerful, self-hosted, and user-friendly web application security solution has never been greater. SafeLine is currently the most starred open-source Web Application Firewall (WAF) on GitHub, with over 16.4K… Read More "Open Source Web Application Firewall with Zero-Day Detection and Bot Protection"
May 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a threat actor codenamed ViciousTrap has compromised nearly 5,300 unique network edge devices across 84 countries and turned them into a honeypot-like network. The threat actor has… Read More "ViciousTrap Uses Cisco Flaw to Build Global Honeypot from 5,300 Compromised Devices"
May 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Dark Web As part of the latest “season” of Operation Endgame, a coalition of law enforcement agencies have taken down about 300 servers worldwide, neutralized 650 domains, and issued arrest warrants against 20 targets. Operation… Read More "300 Servers and €3.5M Seized as Europol Strikes Ransomware Networks Worldwide"
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the disruption of the online infrastructure associated with DanaBot (aka DanaTools) and unsealed charges against 16 individuals for their alleged involvement in the development and deployment of the malware, which it… Read More "U.S. Dismantles DanaBot Malware Network, Charges 16 in $50M Global Cybercrime Operation"
May 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday revealed that Commvault is monitoring cyber threat activity targeting applications hosted in their Microsoft Azure cloud environment. “Threat actors may have accessed client… Read More "CISA Warns of Suspected Broader SaaS Attacks Exploiting App Secrets and Cloud Misconfigs"
