Tag: cyber
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Trump’s workforce cuts blamed as America’s cyber edge dulls
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission says years of progress are being undone amid current administration’s cuts First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/10/23/trumps_workforce_cuts_blamed_in_report/
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Pakistani-Linked Hacker Group Targets Indian Government
A cyber-espionage campaign by Pakistan’s TransparentTribe has been identified, targeting Indian government systems using DeskRAT First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/pakistani-hacker-group-targets/
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Russia, China Will Weaponize UN Cyber Treaty, FDD Warns
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Warns Against Aligning With New Cyber Treaty. The United Nations’ cybercrime treaty, shaped by Russian and Chinese influence, could legitimize global digital repression by enabling prosecutions of journalists, activists and researchers under vague terms – despite U.S. opposition and mounting civil society alarm, analysts warned Thursday. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Agentic AI: A Force Multiplier CISOs Can’t Afford to Ignore
AI-Powered Threats Demand AI-Driven Defense As AI reshapes the cyber battlefield, CISOs face unprecedented pressure to defend at machine speed. Discover how agentic AI and deep observability are transforming defense from detection to foresight. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/agentic-ai-force-multiplier-cisos-cant-afford-to-ignore-p-3959
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Russia, China Will Weaponize UN Cyber Treaty, FDD Warns
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Warns Against Aligning With New Cyber Treaty. The United Nations’ cybercrime treaty, shaped by Russian and Chinese influence, could legitimize global digital repression by enabling prosecutions of journalists, activists and researchers under vague terms – despite U.S. opposition and mounting civil society alarm, analysts warned Thursday. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Agentic AI: A Force Multiplier CISOs Can’t Afford to Ignore
AI-Powered Threats Demand AI-Driven Defense As AI reshapes the cyber battlefield, CISOs face unprecedented pressure to defend at machine speed. Discover how agentic AI and deep observability are transforming defense from detection to foresight. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/agentic-ai-force-multiplier-cisos-cant-afford-to-ignore-p-3959
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Russia, China Will Weaponize UN Cyber Treaty, FDD Warns
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Warns Against Aligning With New Cyber Treaty. The United Nations’ cybercrime treaty, shaped by Russian and Chinese influence, could legitimize global digital repression by enabling prosecutions of journalists, activists and researchers under vague terms – despite U.S. opposition and mounting civil society alarm, analysts warned Thursday. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Russia, China Will Weaponize UN Cyber Treaty, FDD Warns
Foundation for Defense of Democracies Warns Against Aligning With New Cyber Treaty. The United Nations’ cybercrime treaty, shaped by Russian and Chinese influence, could legitimize global digital repression by enabling prosecutions of journalists, activists and researchers under vague terms – despite U.S. opposition and mounting civil society alarm, analysts warned Thursday. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Agentic AI: A Force Multiplier CISOs Can’t Afford to Ignore
AI-Powered Threats Demand AI-Driven Defense As AI reshapes the cyber battlefield, CISOs face unprecedented pressure to defend at machine speed. Discover how agentic AI and deep observability are transforming defense from detection to foresight. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/agentic-ai-force-multiplier-cisos-cant-afford-to-ignore-p-3959
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Caminho Malware Loader Conceals .NET Payloads inside Images via LSB Steganography
Cybersecurity researchers at Arctic Wolf Labs have uncovered a cunning new threat dubbed Caminho, a Brazilian Loader-as-a-Service (LaaS) that’s turning everyday images into Trojan horses for malware. Active since March 2025 and evolved rapidly by June, this operation hides .NET payloads using Least Significant Bit (LSB) steganography inside files hosted on trusted sites like archive.org.…
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Vulnerability in Perplexity’s Comet Browser Screenshot Feature Allows Malicious Prompt Injection
Researchers have discovered a critical security vulnerability in Perplexity’s Comet AI browser that allows attackers to inject malicious commands through hidden text in screenshots. The vulnerability, disclosed on October 21, 2025, demonstrates how AI-powered browsers can become dangerous gateways for attackers to access users’ sensitive accounts like banking and email services. How Attackers Hide Dangerous…
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Lazarus Group’s Operation DreamJob Targets European Defense Firms
Cyber-attacks by North Korea’s Lazarus Group target European defense firms in drone development First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/lazarus-groups-operation-dreamjob/
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Caminho Malware Loader Conceals .NET Payloads inside Images via LSB Steganography
Cybersecurity researchers at Arctic Wolf Labs have uncovered a cunning new threat dubbed Caminho, a Brazilian Loader-as-a-Service (LaaS) that’s turning everyday images into Trojan horses for malware. Active since March 2025 and evolved rapidly by June, this operation hides .NET payloads using Least Significant Bit (LSB) steganography inside files hosted on trusted sites like archive.org.…
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‘Attacks will get through’: head of GCHQ urges companies to do more to fight cybercrime
Anne Keast-Butler says government and business must to work together to tackle future attacks as AI makes cybercrime easierCompanies need to do more to mitigate the potential effects of cyber-attacks, the head of GCHQ has said, including making physical, paper copies of crisis plans to use if an attack brings down entire computer systems.”What are…
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House Democrats Push Back at Reassignments, Firings of CISA Employees
Democrats in Congress are continuing to target the Trump Administrations actions with CISA, with the latest effort being a letter from House Democrats arguing the firing some employees and moving others to help with the president’s expansive immigration and deportation operations weaken the country’s security at a time when China’s cyber intrusions are accelerating. First…
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Phishing campaign across Mideast, North Africa is attributed to Iranian group
The well-known Iranian cyber-espionage operation tracked as MuddyWater spread backdoor malware in recent months through a compromised email account, researchers said. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/iran-muddywater-phishing-campaign-north-africa-middle-east
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Global SMS Phishing Campaign Traced to China Targets Users Worldwide
A sophisticated and widespread smishing campaign originating from China has emerged as a significant threat to users worldwide. Researchers have attributed the ongoing attack to a group known as the Smishing Triad, which has demonstrated unprecedented scale and complexity through a decentralized infrastructure capable of registering and churning thousands of malicious domains daily. Since January…
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Active Exploits Target Magento and Adobe Commerce RCE, Attackers Inject Webshells
Unauthenticated attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability affecting Adobe Commerce and Magento platforms worldwide. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-54236 and dubbedSessionReaper, enables remote code execution and customer account takeover on thousands of online stores. CVE ID Vulnerability Name Affected Products Type CVSS 3.1 CVE-2025-54236 SessionReaper Adobe Commerce & Magento (all versions) Unauthenticated RCE, Account…
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Stealthy Malware Leveraging Variable Functions and Cookies for Evasion
Cybersecurity researchers at Wordfence Threat Intelligence and their Care and Response teams have observed a persistent trend in new malware that leverages heavy obfuscation techniques to evade detection. While some malware attempts to blend in as legitimate files, the more common strategy involves sophisticated obfuscation through variable functions and cookie manipulation. This article explores this…
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Jira Vulnerability Lets Attackers Alter Files Accessible to the Jira JVM Process
Atlassian has disclosed a critical path traversal vulnerability affecting Jira Software Data Center and Server that could allow authenticated attackers to modify files accessible to the Jira Java Virtual Machine (JVM) process. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22167, carries a high severity rating with a CVSS score of 8.7 and affects multiple product versions dating back…
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TransparentTribe Targets Linux Systems in Indian Military to Deploy DeskRAT
In July 2025, cybersecurity firm CYFIRMA uncovered an active phishing campaign targeting Linux-based operating systems used by Indian government and military organisations. This operation, attributed to TransparentTribe (also known as APT36 or Operation C-Major), is the latest in a series of ongoing cyber espionage campaigns supporting Pakistan’s strategic interests. TransparentTribe, a Pakistani-nexus threat group active…
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Active Exploits Target Magento and Adobe Commerce RCE, Attackers Inject Webshells
Unauthenticated attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability affecting Adobe Commerce and Magento platforms worldwide. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-54236 and dubbedSessionReaper, enables remote code execution and customer account takeover on thousands of online stores. CVE ID Vulnerability Name Affected Products Type CVSS 3.1 CVE-2025-54236 SessionReaper Adobe Commerce & Magento (all versions) Unauthenticated RCE, Account…
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Stealthy Malware Leveraging Variable Functions and Cookies for Evasion
Cybersecurity researchers at Wordfence Threat Intelligence and their Care and Response teams have observed a persistent trend in new malware that leverages heavy obfuscation techniques to evade detection. While some malware attempts to blend in as legitimate files, the more common strategy involves sophisticated obfuscation through variable functions and cookie manipulation. This article explores this…
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Jira Vulnerability Lets Attackers Alter Files Accessible to the Jira JVM Process
Atlassian has disclosed a critical path traversal vulnerability affecting Jira Software Data Center and Server that could allow authenticated attackers to modify files accessible to the Jira Java Virtual Machine (JVM) process. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22167, carries a high severity rating with a CVSS score of 8.7 and affects multiple product versions dating back…
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Active Exploits Target Magento and Adobe Commerce RCE, Attackers Inject Webshells
Unauthenticated attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability affecting Adobe Commerce and Magento platforms worldwide. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-54236 and dubbedSessionReaper, enables remote code execution and customer account takeover on thousands of online stores. CVE ID Vulnerability Name Affected Products Type CVSS 3.1 CVE-2025-54236 SessionReaper Adobe Commerce & Magento (all versions) Unauthenticated RCE, Account…
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Jingle Thief Hackers Exploit the Festive Season with Weaponized Gift Card Scams
Tags: credentials, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, finance, fraud, hacker, scam, service, theft, threat, vulnerabilityCybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sophisticated campaign targeting global retail and consumer services organizations through credential theft and gift card fraud. Dubbed >>Jingle Thief,
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Smarter Threats Need Smarter Defenses: AI, APIs, and the Reality for Critical Infrastructure Security
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, encryption, endpoint, exploit, finance, firewall, flaw, framework, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, malicious, risk, saas, service, software, strategy, tactics, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, wafSmarter Threats Need Smarter Defenses: AI, APIs, and the Reality for Critical Infrastructure Security madhav Thu, 10/23/2025 – 05:36 Critical infrastructure (CI) organizations are, as the name suggests, some of the most important in the global economy. They’re also some of the most technologically complex and, crucially, vulnerable. Their security must reflect that. Data Security…
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Jira Vulnerability Lets Attackers Alter Files Accessible to the Jira JVM Process
Atlassian has disclosed a critical path traversal vulnerability affecting Jira Software Data Center and Server that could allow authenticated attackers to modify files accessible to the Jira Java Virtual Machine (JVM) process. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-22167, carries a high severity rating with a CVSS score of 8.7 and affects multiple product versions dating back…
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UK cyber law delays ‘deeply concerning,’ say MPs
Major recent cybersecurity incidents should spur the British government to act decisively on new cybersecurity laws, opposition MPs say. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/britain-cyber-law-delays-opposition-mps-warning
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TransparentTribe Targets Linux Systems in Indian Military to Deploy DeskRAT
In July 2025, cybersecurity firm CYFIRMA uncovered an active phishing campaign targeting Linux-based operating systems used by Indian government and military organisations. This operation, attributed to TransparentTribe (also known as APT36 or Operation C-Major), is the latest in a series of ongoing cyber espionage campaigns supporting Pakistan’s strategic interests. TransparentTribe, a Pakistani-nexus threat group active…