Tag: cyber
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Beware: Weaponized Research Papers Delivering Malware Through Password-Protected Documents
The AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) recently made the concerning revelation that the infamous Kimsuky hacking organization was connected to a crafty phishing email campaign that targeted unwary people. Disguised as a seemingly legitimate request for a paper review from a professor, these emails lure recipients into opening a password-protected HWP document embedded with a…
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Kimsuky and Konni APT Groups Lead Active Attacks Targeting East Asia
An significant 20 Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) occurrences were found in April 2025, according to a new report from Fuying Lab’s worldwide threat hunting system. East Asia emerges as a primary hotspot, where the notorious APT groups Kimsuky and Konni have been identified as the most active players. According to the Report, their operations predominantly…
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Cyber experts call for supercharging volunteer network to protect community organizations
To defend “target rich, resource poor” critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, the U.S. must expand its patchwork volunteer system, a new report concludes. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/cyber-resilience-corps-volunteer-target-rich-resource-poor-assistance/
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XDSpy Threat Actors Exploit Windows LNK Zero-Day Vulnerability to Target Windows System Users
The XDSpy threat actor has been identified as exploiting a Windows LNK zero-day vulnerability, dubbed ZDI-CAN-25373, to target governmental entities in Eastern Europe and Russia. This ongoing campaign, active since March 2025, employs an intricate multi-stage infection chain to deploy the malicious XDigo implant, crafted in Go, as revealed by a detailed investigation stemming from…
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The Cyber Future Is Riskier Than You Think
Tags: cyberSound suggestions on how to tackle four quiet problems that often slip through the security cracks. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/the-cyber-future-is-riskier-than-you-think
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NSFOCUS Ranks among the Top Vendors in China Security Service Market
SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 17, 2025 Recently, IDC officially released the China IT Security Service Market Tracking Report (2024H2). The report shows that NSFOCUS has outstanding performance in the security consulting service market, ranking the 3rd place. NSFOCUS has always adhered to a customer-centric approach, continued to increase the integration and innovation of AI…The post…
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UK data privacy regulator fines 23andMe over cyber practices in wake of hack
The United Kingdom’s top data privacy regulator on Tuesday fined the embattled personal genomics company 23andMe more than $3 million over allegedly poor cybersecurity practices. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/uk-data-privacy-regulator-fines-23andme
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BeyondTrust Tools RCE Vulnerability Allows Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code
Tags: access, advisory, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, flaw, injection, rce, remote-code-execution, tool, vulnerabilityA newly disclosed vulnerability in BeyondTrust’s Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products has raised alarms across the cybersecurity community. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-5309 and detailed in advisory BT25-04, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected servers via a Server-Side Template Injection (SSTI) vulnerability in the chat feature. With a CVSSv4…
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Federal cyber insurance backstop should be tied to expiring terrorism insurance law, report recommends
Congress should use renewal of an expiring terrorism insurance program to create a federal backstop for cybersecurity insurance, according to a report out Tuesday that tries to thread many difficult needles to bolster an industry that its author says isn’t developing fast enough. In an ideal world, cybersecurity insurance can be a valuable tool to…
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Critical Vulnerabilities in Sitecore Could Lead to Widespread Enterprise Attacks
A series of newly disclosed critical vulnerabilities in the Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) have raised alarm across the enterprise technology sector, with security researchers warning that unpatched systems could be exposed to devastating remote code execution (RCE) attacks. Sitecore, a widely adopted content management system (CMS) used by major enterprises”, including banks, airlines, and Fortune…
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WestJet Airlines App, Website Suffer After Cyber Incident
Though its operations are running smoothly, the airline warned customers and employees to exercise caution when sharing personal information online. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/westjet-airline-app-website-operations-suffer-cyber-incident
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Securing the Future Together: Why Thales and HPE are the Partners You Can Trust
Tags: access, ai, application-security, banking, business, cloud, compliance, computing, control, cryptography, cyber, cyberattack, data, dora, encryption, GDPR, government, Hardware, healthcare, infrastructure, network, nis-2, PCI, resilience, risk, service, software, strategy, threatSecuring the Future Together: Why Thales and HPE are the Partners You Can Trust madhav Tue, 06/17/2025 – 05:15 Across every industry, data drives decisions, innovation, and growth. As organizations modernize with hybrid cloud and AI, the risks to that data scale are just as fast. From sophisticated cyberattacks to increasingly stringent compliance demands, the…
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Hackers Manipulate Search Engines to Push Malicious Sites
A new wave of cybercrime is exploiting the very backbone of internet trust: search engines. Recent research by Netcraft has exposed a sophisticated and organized SEO poisoning operation, where hackers manipulate search engine algorithms to push malicious websites to the top of search results. At the heart of this campaign is a platform known as…
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Hackers Use Fake Verification Prompt and Clickfix Technique to Deploy Fileless AsyncRAT
Threat actors are leveraging deceptive tactics to distribute a fileless variant of AsyncRAT, a notorious remote access Trojan. Discovered during routine attacker infrastructure analysis, this operation employs a fake verification prompt themed around the >>Clickfix
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WhatsApp’s Status Tab Set to Feature Ads as Meta Monetizes Platform
WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app, is entering a new era as Meta officially begins rolling out advertisements within its Updates tab”, a move that marks the platform’s most significant shift in monetization since its inception. The announcement, made on June 16, signals WhatsApp’s intent to leverage its vast user base of over two…
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ASUS Armoury Crate Vulnerability Lets Hackers Gain System-Level Access on Windows
A critical vulnerability in ASUS’s popular Armoury Crate software has exposed millions of Windows users to the risk of system-level compromise, according to a recent disclosure by Cisco Talos and confirmed by ASUS. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-3464, allows attackers to bypass security controls and gain the highest level of privileges on affected systems, potentially…
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Water Curse Hacker Group Uses 76 GitHub Accounts to Spread Multistage Malware
A newly identified threat actor known as Water Curse has been linked to a sprawling campaign utilizing at least 76 GitHub accounts to distribute weaponized repositories packed with multistage malware. This financially motivated group leverages the inherent trust in open-source platforms to target a diverse range of victims, including cybersecurity professionals, red teamers, penetration testers,…
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Critical sslh Vulnerabilities Allow Remote DenialService Attacks
Security researchers disclosed two critical vulnerabilities in sslh, a widely used protocol multiplexer that enables multiple services”, such as SSH, HTTPS, and OpenVPN”, to share a single network port. These flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-46807 and CVE-2025-46806, could allow remote attackers to crash sslh or render it unavailable, resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS) for legitimate users.…
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Operation 999: Ransomware tabletop tests cyber execs’ response
Tags: access, attack, blueteam, breach, computer, conference, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, extortion, group, hacker, incident, incident response, infrastructure, leak, military, network, ransom, ransomware, RedTeam, resilience, risk, service, threat, tool, trainingExtortion attempts rebuffed: As the exercise moved on, the blue team refuse to pay a ransom after consulting with the authorities, legal teams, and crisis management experts. Instead of upping the ante by threatening to sabotage the water treatment algorithms or chemical pumps, potentially tainting the supply, the attackers decide to leak customer records online…
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Hackers Exploiting Chrome Zero”‘Day Vulnerability in the Wild
A newly discovered zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome, tracked as CVE-2025-2783, is being actively exploited by hackers in sophisticated cyber-espionage campaigns. Security researchers have observed a surge in targeted attacks leveraging this flaw, with attribution pointing to the advanced persistent threat (APT) group Team46, also known as TaxOff. The Attack Campaign The first signs of…
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Android Devices Under Siege: How Threat Actors Abuse OEM Permissions for Privilege Escalation
Threat actors are increasingly exploiting legitimate channels to achieve privilege escalation, posing a severe risk to millions of devices worldwide. While conventional exploits remain a concern, a more insidious danger emerges from applications gaining excessive system access through mechanisms such as sideloading and Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) permissions. These permissions, often embedded by device manufacturers…
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CISA Alerts: iOS Zero”‘Click Flaw Actively Exploited
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a high-priority alert following the discovery and active exploitation of a critical zero-click vulnerability in Apple’s ecosystem, tracked as CVE-2025-43200. This flaw, now patched, enabled attackers to compromise iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS devices without any user interaction, raising alarms across the cybersecurity and…
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GCHQ Intern Sentenced to 7 Years for Illegally Copying Secret Files to Smartphone
A former intern at the UK’s intelligence agency GCHQ has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after admitting to smuggling top secret data out of a secure facility using his mobile phone, in a breach described by prosecutors as a “flagrant violation” of national security protocols. Hasaan Arshad, 25, a computer…
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Top 5 AI SOC Analyst Platforms to Watch out for in 2025
As threats evolve in sophistication and frequency while cyber skills gaps persist, Security Operations Centres (SOCs) are increasingly turning to AI-driven platforms to enhance threat detection, streamline investigations, and automate responses. But which one is the best? Prophet Security (Best Overall) Prophet Security’s AI-native SOC platform deploys an “Agentic AI SOC Analyst” that autonomously triages,…
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NSFOCUS APT Monthly Briefing April 2025
Regional APT Threat Situation Overview In April 2025, the global threat hunting system of Fuying Lab discovered a total of 20 APT attack activities. These activities are mainly distributed in East Asia, South Asia, Middle East and Eastern Europe, as shown in the following figure. In terms of group activity, the most active APT group…The…
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DeerStealer Malware Deployed Through Exploitation of Windows Run Prompt by Threat Actors
The eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) has uncovered a series of malicious campaigns throughout May 2025, where threat actors have been deploying the DeerStealer malware, also known as XFiles Spyware, using the HijackLoader malware loader. This sophisticated information stealer, peddled on dark-web forums by a user named “LuciferXfiles,” is designed to harvest a wide array…
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Apache Tomcat Flaws Allow Auth Bypass and DoS Attacks
Tags: apache, attack, authentication, cyber, dos, flaw, open-source, service, software, update, vulnerabilityThe Apache Software Foundation has released critical security updates to address four newly discovered vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat, one of the world’s most widely used open-source Java servlet containers. These flaws, affecting Tomcat versions 9.0, 10.1, and 11.0, expose systems to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, privilege escalation, installer abuse, and authentication bypass, prompting urgent calls for…
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Hackers Weaponize Langflow Vulnerability to Launch Flodrix Botnet
Tags: ai, botnet, cve, cvss, cyber, cybercrime, exploit, flaw, framework, hacker, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA critical security flaw in Langflow, a widely adopted Python-based AI prototyping framework, is being actively exploited by cybercriminals to deploy the rapidly evolving Flodrix botnet. Security researchers have confirmed that attackers are exploiting CVE-2025-3248, a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability rated 9.8 on the CVSS scale, to compromise unpatched Langflow servers and enlist them…