Tag: cyber
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New Report Reveals Just 10% of Employees Drive 73% of Cyber Risk
Austin, United States / TX, 22nd July 2025, CyberNewsWire First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/new-report-reveals-just-10-of-employees-drive-73-of-cyber-risk/
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What the law says about your next data breach
In this Help Net Security video, Chad Humphries, Solution Consultant, Networks Cyber Security at Rockwell Automation, explores how cyber risk quantification is becoming … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/22/data-breach-cyber-risk-quantification-video/
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Weak Password Enables Ransomware Attack on 158-Year-Old Firm
A single compromised password has been identified as the catalyst that destroyed a century-old transport company and displaced 700 employees, highlighting the devastating impact of cybersecurity vulnerabilities on British businesses. The case of KNP, a Northamptonshire-based logistics firm, represents a stark warning about the growing ransomware threat facing UK enterprises. KNP, which had operated for…
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ExpressVPN Windows Client Flaw Could Expose User Information
ExpressVPN disclosed a vulnerability in its Windows desktop client that, under specific circumstances, could have permitted the leakage of user connection details. The flaw was discovered by security researcher Adam-X through ExpressVPN’s bug bounty program and pertains to Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) and other TCP traffic routed over port 3389. Although the bug did not…
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Dell Data Breach World Leaks Group Hacks Test Lab Platform
Dell Technologies has acknowledged a significant security incident involving its Customer Solution Centers platform, with the World Leaks extortion group successfully infiltrating the isolated demonstration environment used for showcasing products to commercial clients. The breach, which occurred earlier this month, represents another high-profile attack by the newly rebranded threat actor formerly known as Hunters International.…
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Cyberattacks Surging Across Indo-Pacific, Researchers Warn
Report Urges Indo-Pacific Cyber Shield Strategy Amid Increased Nation-State Threats. A Center for a New American Security study found China and North Korea are accelerating cyberattacks, influence operations and infrastructure breaches across the Indo-Pacific, as researchers urge the U.S. to help develop a regional cyber shield, and deploy forward cyber teams. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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UK blames Russia’s infamous ‘Fancy Bear’ group for Microsoft cloud hacks
Authentic Antics malware tool to target Microsoft cloud accounts were the handiwork of the notorious Russian Fancy Bear hacking group, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said.Authentic Antics was discovered after a cyberattack in 2023 which prompted an NCSC technical teardown of the malware that it published in May this year. The agency…
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UNG0002 Deploys Weaponized LNK Files with Cobalt Strike and Metasploit to Target Organizations
Seqrite Labs APT-Team has uncovered a persistent threat entity, UNG0002 (Unknown Group 0002), orchestrating espionage-driven operations across Asian jurisdictions, including China, Hong Kong, and Pakistan. Active since at least May 2024, this South-East Asia-based cluster has demonstrated a high degree of adaptability and technical prowess, targeting critical sectors such as defense, civil aviation, electrotechnical engineering,…
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DeerStealer Malware Spread Through Weaponized .LNK and LOLBin Tools
A new wave of cyber-attacks has emerged, exploiting Windows shortcut files (.LNK) combined with legitimate system utilities collectively known as Living-off-the-Land Binaries and Scripts (LOLBin/S) to deliver the DeerStealer infostealer through highly obfuscated multi-stage chains. Recent campaigns begin with phishing emails or fraudulent file shares containing weaponized .LNK files camouflaged as seemingly benign documents, often…
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UK Sanctions 3 Russian Military Cyber Units
Leaders of the Russian Military Intelligence Units of the GRU Also Targeted. The U.K. government on Friday sanctioned three Russian Military Intelligence Service units 29155, 26165 and 74455 in the United Kingdom and Ukraine. The sanctions also targeted 18 Russian officials for their role in GRU cyber operations dating back to 2013. First seen on…
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Threat Actors Compromise Popular npm Packages to Steal Maintainers’ Tokens
Threat actors have leveraged a phishing campaign targeting npm package maintainers, resulting in the compromise of widely used JavaScript tooling libraries. The campaign, first reported on July 18, 2025, utilizes a typosquatted domain, npnjs.com, to mimic legitimate npm communications and trick developers into surrendering their authentication tokens. This multi-stage operation begins with automated emails scraped…
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Beware of npm Phishing Emails Targeting Developer Credentials
An developer recently came across a highly advanced phishing email that spoofs the support@npmjs.org address in order to impersonate npm, the Node.js package registry. The email directed recipients to a malicious link on npnjs.com, a domain cleverly typosquatted to mimic npmjs.com by swapping ‘m’ for ‘n’. This fake site hosted a complete clone or proxy…
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Cybercriminals Use Zoho WorkDrive Folders to Spread Obfuscated PureRAT Malware
A targeted attack against a U.S.-based certified public accounting firm was discovered in May 2025 by cybersecurity experts, according to a recent study described in eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) Positives report. The campaign leveraged a novel crypter named >>Ghost Crypt
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APT41 Hackers Exploiting Atexec and WmiExec Windows Modules for Malware Deployment
Kaspersky MDR analysts recently uncovered a sophisticated targeted attack by the Chinese-speaking cyberespionage group APT41 against government IT services in the African region, marking a notable escalation in the group’s activity on the continent, which had previously seen minimal incidents from this actor. The attackers embedded hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy…
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Attackers Can Exploit Lighthouse Studio RCE Bug to Gain Server Access
Researchers at Assetnote have uncovered a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Lighthouse Studio, a widely used survey software developed by Sawtooth Software. This flaw, affecting the Perl CGI scripts that power the web-based survey component, enables unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on hosting servers simply by accessing a survey link. Vulnerability in…
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China-Linked Hackers Launch Targeted Espionage Campaign on African IT Infrastructure
The China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as APT41 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting government IT services in the African region.”The attackers used hardcoded names of internal services, IP addresses, and proxy servers embedded within their malware,” Kaspersky researchers Denis Kulik and Daniil Pogorelov said. “One of the C2s [command-and-control servers] was a…
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How IT leaders infuse cyber hygiene into daily work
For technology chiefs, a “do as I say, not as I do” stance could lead to a security breach. Instead, cyber awareness can be taught by example. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cybersecurity-practices-IT-executives/753584/
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The Security Interviews: Jason Nurse, University of Kent
Tags: cyberJason Nurse, reader in cyber security at the University of Kent, discusses the psychological side of cyber and online safety, why placing blame on users as ‘the weakest link’ is wrong and why security pros should think about user needs more First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366627714/The-Security-Interviews-Jason-Nurse-University-of-Kent
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KAWA4096 Ransomware Employs WMI Techniques to Delete Backup Snapshots
Trustwave SpiderLabs has played a crucial role in monitoring new ransomware variants in the incredibly unstable ransomware threat landscape of 2025, where dozens of new groups have emerged and caused extensive disruptions across multiple sectors. Among these, the KAWA4096 ransomware has been identified as a notable newcomer, first detected in June 2025. This strain has…
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AI-Powered Cloaking Tools Help Threat Actors Hide Malicious Domains from Security Scans
Threat actors are increasingly adopting AI-powered cloaking services to obfuscate phishing domains, counterfeit e-commerce sites, and malware distribution endpoints from automated security scanners. This technique, known as cloaking, involves dynamically serving innocuous >>white pages>black pages.
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Snake Keylogger Uses Persistence via Scheduled Tasks to Steal Login Data Undetected
Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign zeroing in on Turkish enterprises, with a particular focus on the defense and aerospace industries. Threat actors are masquerading as Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAÅž), a key defense contractor, to disseminate malicious emails that mimic legitimate contractual documents. These emails carry a variant of the Snake Keylogger, an infamous…
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Researchers Release PoC Exploit for High-Severity NVIDIA AI Toolkit Bug
Wiz Research has disclosed a severe vulnerability in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit (NCT), dubbed #NVIDIAScape and tracked as CVE-2025-23266 with a CVSS score of 9.0, enabling malicious containers to escape isolation and gain root access on host systems. This flaw, stemming from a misconfiguration in OCI hook handling, affects NCT versions up to 1.17.7 (in…
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Why it’s time for the US to go on offense in cyberspace
The U.S. is stepping into a new cyber era, and it comes not a moment too soon. With the Trump administration’s sweeping $1 billion cyber initiative in the “Big Beautiful Bill” and growing congressional momentum under the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to strengthen cyber deterrence, we’re seeing a shift in posture that many…
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Singapore under ongoing cyber attack from APT group
Nation-state actor UNC3886 is actively targeting Singapore’s critical national infrastructure in a sophisticated espionage and disruption campaign, with the government mounting a whole-of-government response First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366627926/Singapore-under-ongoing-cyber-attack-from-APT-group
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PHP PDO Flaw Allows Attackers to Inject Malicious SQL Commands
A critical vulnerability in PHP’s widely-used PDO (PHP Data Objects) library has been discovered that enables attackers to inject malicious SQL commands even when developers implement prepared statements correctly. The security flaw, revealed through analysis of a DownUnderCTF capture-the-flag challenge, exploits weaknesses in PDO’s SQL parser and affects millions of web applications worldwide. Technical Overview…
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Assessing the Role of AI in Zero Trust
By 2025, Zero Trust has evolved from a conceptual framework into an essential pillar of modern security. No longer merely theoretical, it’s now a requirement that organizations must adopt. A robust, defensible architecture built on Zero Trust principles does more than satisfy baseline regulatory mandates. It underpins cyber resilience, secures third-party partnerships, and ensures uninterrupted…
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Europol targets Kremlin-backed cybercrime gang NoName057(16)
The hacking group NoName057(16) has been operating since 2022, launching cyber attacks on government organisations, media bodies, critical infrastructure, and private companies in Ukraine, America, Canada, and across Europe in a seeming attempt to silence voices that the group considers anti-Russian. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/europol-targets-kremlin-backed-cybercrime-gang-noname057-16
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Surveillance Firm Exploits SS7 Flaw to Track User Locations
Tags: attack, cyber, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, intelligence, international, mobile, phone, threat, vulnerabilityA sophisticated surveillance operation has been discovered exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the global telecommunications infrastructure to track mobile phone users’ locations without authorization, security researchers have revealed. The attack leverages weaknesses in the decades-old SS7 (Signaling System No. 7) protocol that underpins international cellular networks. New Attack Method Discovered Security experts at Enea’s Threat Intelligence…
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CoinDCX Hack Leads to $44.2 Million Loss
Major Indian cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX has confirmed a significant security breach that resulted in approximately $44 million in losses, though company executives maintain that customer funds remain completely secure and unaffected by the incident. CoinDCX co-founder Sumit Gupta publicly confirmed reports of the cyberattack, which occurred on Saturday, July 19, 2025. The hackers successfully gained…
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Microsoft AppLocker Flaw Lets Malicious Apps Bypass Security Restrictions
Security researchers at Varonis Threat Labs have identified a subtle but significant vulnerability in Microsoft’s AppLocker security feature that could allow malicious applications to bypass established security restrictions. While not classified as a critical vulnerability, the discovery highlights important gaps in enterprise security configurations that organizations should address. AppLocker serves as Microsoft’s enterprise-grade application control…