Tag: malicious
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DarkSpectre Browser Extension Campaigns Exposed After Impacting 8.8 Million Users Worldwide
The threat actor behind two malicious browser extension campaigns, ShadyPanda and GhostPoster, has been attributed to a third attack campaign codenamed DarkSpectre that has impacted 2.2 million users of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox.The activity is assessed to be the work of a Chinese threat actor that Koi Security is tracking under the…
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New ErrTraffic service enables ClickFix attacks via fake browser glitches
A new cybercrime tool called ErrTraffic allows threat actors to automate ClickFix attacks by generating ‘fake glitches’ on compromised websites to lure users into downloading payloads or following malicious instructions First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-errtraffic-service-enables-clickfix-attacks-via-fake-browser-glitches/
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Zero-day vulnerabilities: what they are and how to respond
Zero-day vulnerabilities often attract attention and concern because of their unpredictability. They are, by definition, weaknesses that are unknown to software vendors and therefore have no official fix at the point of discovery. When discovered and exploited by malicious actors, they allow attackers to bypass controls before organisations even realise there is a problem. The”¦…
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Widely Used Malicious Extensions Steal ChatGPT, DeepSeek Conversations
Threat actors used two malicious Chrome extensions that have 900,000 users to steal their chats with AI models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek and browser history. The incident is the latest in a growing string of attacks in which hackers weaponized browser extensions to exfiltrate huge amounts of sensitive data. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to…
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Widely Used Malicious Extensions Steal ChatGPT, DeepSeek Conversations
Threat actors used two malicious Chrome extensions that have 900,000 users to steal their chats with AI models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek and browser history. The incident is the latest in a growing string of attacks in which hackers weaponized browser extensions to exfiltrate huge amounts of sensitive data. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to…
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Magecart Campaign Deploys 50+ Malicious Scripts to Hijack E-Commerce Transactions
A sophisticated and expansive Magecart campaign has been uncovered, marking a dangerous evolution in client-side attacks. Security researchers have identified a global operation utilizing over 50 distinct malicious scripts to hijack checkout and account creation flows across dozens of e-commerce platforms. Unlike traditional skimming attacks that >>listen
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Hackers Impersonated Jackson JSON Library to Infiltrate Maven Central
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated multi-stage malware campaign targeting Maven Central, the primary repository for Java dependencies. The attack centered on a malicious package impersonating the legitimate Jackson JSON library marking the first significant detection of advanced malware in an ecosystem that has historically remained resilient against supply chain attacks. The malicious package, published…
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Chinese Hackers Deploy Rootkit to Stealthily Mask ToneShell Malware
Tags: apt, backdoor, china, cyber, cyberespionage, government, group, hacker, malicious, malware, technology, toolA sophisticated cyberespionage campaign leveraging kernel-mode rootkit technology has been discovered targeting government organizations across Southeast and East Asia, with Myanmar and Thailand bearing the brunt of attacks. Security researchers identified a malicious driver delivering the ToneShell backdoor, a hallmark tool of the Chinese-nexus HoneyMyte APT group, also tracked as Mustang Panda or Bronze President.…
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2.5M Malicious Requests Hit Adobe ColdFusion and Others in Holiday Attack
A holiday-timed campaign drove 2.5 million malicious requests targeting Adobe ColdFusion and other enterprise platforms. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/2-5m-malicious-requests-hit-adobe-coldfusion-and-others-in-holiday-attack/
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OpenAI says prompt injection may never be ‘solved’ for browser agents like Atlas
OpenAI is warning that prompt injection, a technique that hides malicious instructions inside ordinary online content, is becoming a central security risk for AI agents designed to operate inside a web browser and carry out tasks for users. The company said it recently shipped a security update for ChatGPT Atlas after internal automated red-teaming uncovered…
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27 Malicious npm Packages Used as Phishing Infrastructure to Steal Login Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what has been described as a “sustained and targeted” spear-phishing campaign that has published over two dozen packages to the npm registry to facilitate credential theft.The activity, which involved uploading 27 npm packages from six different npm aliases, has primarily targeted sales and commercial personnel at critical First seen…
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Top 5 real-world AI security threats revealed in 2025
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, chatgpt, cloud, control, credentials, cybercrime, data, data-breach, defense, email, exploit, flaw, framework, github, gitlab, google, injection, least-privilege, LLM, malicious, malware, microsoft, nvidia, open-source, openai, rce, remote-code-execution, risk, service, software, supply-chain, theft, threat, tool, vulnerabilityA critical remote code execution (RCE) in open-source AI agent framework Langflow that was also exploited in the wildAn RCE flaw in OpenAI’s Codex CLIVulnerabilities in NVIDIA Triton Inference ServerRCE vulnerabilities in major AI inference server frameworks, including those from Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open-source projects such as vLLM and SGLangVulnerabilities in open-source compute framework…
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NDSS 2025 CounterSEVeillance: Performance-Counter Attacks On AMD SEV-SNP
Tags: attack, conference, control, data-breach, exploit, germany, Hardware, Internet, leak, malicious, network, oracle, side-channelSession 7B: Trusted Hardware and Execution Authors, Creators & Presenters: Stefan Gast (Graz University of Technology), Hannes Weissteiner (Graz University of Technology), Robin Leander Schröder (Fraunhofer SIT, Darmstadt, Germany and Fraunhofer Austria, Vienna, Austria), Daniel Gruss (Graz University of Technology) – PAPER CounterSEVeillance: Performance-Counter Attacks On AMD SEV-SNP Confidential virtual machines (VMs) promise higher security…
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Hackers Compromise Trust Wallet Chrome Extension, Users Claim Millions Stolen
Trust Wallet users suffered devastating losses exceeding $7 million after cybercriminals compromised the Chrome browser extension version 2.68.0, released on December 24, 2025. The breach, which targeted desktop users exclusively, left hundreds of wallets completely drained within hours of the malicious update’s deployment. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT initially flagged the incident on the social media platform…
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Stealth Loaders, AI Chatbot Flaws AI Exploits, Docker Hack, and 15 More Stories
It’s getting harder to tell where normal tech ends and malicious intent begins. Attackers are no longer just breaking in, they’re blending in, hijacking everyday tools, trusted apps, and even AI assistants. What used to feel like clear-cut “hacker stories” now looks more like a mirror of the systems we all use.This week’s findings show…
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Israeli Organizations Targeted by AV-Themed Malicious Word and PDF Files
SEQRITE Labs’ Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Team has uncovered a sophisticated campaign targeting Israeli organizations through weaponized Microsoft Word and PDF documents disguised as legitimate antivirus software. The operation, tracked as UNG0801 or >>Operation IconCat,
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DDoS Protection Faces Fresh Challenges As Bot Traffic Reaches New Peak
As automated attack networks grow larger and more sophisticated, security teams are struggling to keep pace with a surge in malicious bot activity that is reshaping the DDoS threat landscape In December 2025, Solana experienced one of the largest DDoS attacks in history, with traffic peaking at 6 Tbps. Although the attack continued over more…
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Webrat turns GitHub PoCs into a malware trap
The malicious payload and behavior: Beneath the polished README, the attackers dumped a password-protected ZIP linked in the repository. The archive password was hidden in file names, something easily missable by unsuspecting eyes. Inside, the key components include a decoy DLL, a batch file to launch the malware, and the primary executable (like rasmanesc.exe) capable…
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Cyber Experts Warn of Increased Consumer Scams This Festive Season
As Santa starts his travels, experts are warning that his arrival could bring with it a range of cyber risks, from scams to insecure gadgets. Whilst Santa prefers to deliver via chimney, most cybercriminals are looking for backdoors. In some cases, hackers prefer to deliver malicious communications via email. Worryingly, in 2025, scams are not…
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Critical MongoDB Flaw Leaks Sensitive Data Through zlib Compression
MongoDB has disclosed a critical security vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-14847 that could allow attackers to extract uninitialized heap memory from database servers without authentication. The flaw, affecting multiple MongoDB versions dating back to v3.6, stems from a client-side exploit in the server’s zlib compression implementation.”‹ Vulnerability Overview The security issue enables malicious actors to retrieve…
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Interpol sweep takes down cybercrooks in 19 countries
Tags: access, antivirus, attack, botnet, business, china, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, email, encryption, finance, fraud, group, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, international, interpol, law, malicious, malware, microsoft, ransomware, russia, scam, service, theft, threatA ‘very good thing’: The fact that the same operation broke ransomware operations and a business email compromise (BEC) operation is “unique,” said DiMaggio, because most people think of Africa as the source of BEC and fraud scams.The fact that authorities are working to disrupt ransomware operations in Africa before they grow to the size…
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The 3% Rule: How To Silence 97% of Your Cloud Alerts and Be More Secure
Tags: access, ai, attack, breach, business, cloud, cve, cvss, data, data-breach, flaw, iam, identity, infrastructure, least-privilege, malicious, metric, network, ransomware, risk, security-incident, service, software, strategy, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementPrioritizing what to fix first and why that really matters Key takeaways The 97% distraction: Discover why the vast majority of your “Critical” alerts are just theoretical noise, and how focusing strictly on the 3% of findings that represent real, exploitable risk can drastically improve your security posture. Identity is the accelerant: Breaches rarely happen…
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From Agent2Agent Prompt Injection to Runtime Self-Defense: How Wallarm Redefines Agentic AI Security
Is an AI-to-AI attack scenario a science fiction possibility only for blockbusters like the Terminator series of movies? Well, maybe not! Researchers recently discovered that one AI agent can “inject malicious instructions into a conversation, hiding them among otherwise benign client requests and server responses.” While known AI threats involve tricking an agent with malicious…
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Two Chrome Extensions Caught Secretly Stealing Credentials from Over 170 Sites
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Google Chrome extensions with the same name and published by the same developer that come with capabilities to intercept traffic and capture user credentials.The extensions are advertised as a “multi-location network speed test plug-in” for developers and foreign trade personnel. Both the browser add-ons are available for download as…
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Why outsourced cyber defenses create systemic risks
Tags: access, ai, attack, backdoor, breach, business, ciso, cloud, compliance, corporate, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, dora, exploit, finance, framework, GDPR, governance, government, hacker, healthcare, infrastructure, law, malicious, monitoring, moveIT, msp, nis-2, ransomware, regulation, resilience, risk, software, strategy, supply-chain, threat, tool, vulnerability, zero-trustRisk categories of outsourced IT & cybersecurity: When you outsource, responsibility shifts, but accountability never leaves you. The risks fall into clear categories. Operational risks The most basic risk is fragile continuity. In 2017, British Airways outsourced parts of its IT operations. A system outage grounded flights worldwide. The vendor contract delivered savings, but it…
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Malicious extensions in Chrome Web store steal user credentials
Two Chrome extensions in the Web Store named ‘Phantom Shuttle’ are posing as plugins for a proxy service to hijack user traffic and steal sensitive data. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-extensions-in-chrome-web-store-steal-user-credentials/
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Fake VPN Chrome Extensions Steal Credentials by Intercepting User Traffic
Socket’s Threat Research Team has exposed a sophisticated credential-harvesting campaign that has operated through malicious Chrome extensions since 2017. Two variants of an extension named Phantom Shuttle (幻影穿æ¢), published under the threat actor email theknewone.com@gmail.com, have compromised over 2,180 users by masquerading as legitimate network testing tools while executing complete traffic interception and credential theft. The extensions market…