Sep 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cryptocurrency A new campaign has been observed impersonating Ukrainian government agencies in phishing attacks to deliver CountLoader, which is then used to drop Amatera Stealer and PureMiner. “The phishing emails…
The Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as COLDRIVER has been attributed to a fresh round of ClickFix-style attacks designed to deliver two new “lightweight” malware families tracked as BAITSWITCH and SIMPLEFIX. Zscaler ThreatLabz,…
Sep 26, 2025The Hacker NewsSecurity Validation / Enterprise Security Car makers don’t trust blueprints. They smash prototypes into walls. Again and again. In controlled conditions. Because design specs don’t prove survival. Crash tests do. They…
Sep 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity company watchTowr Labs has disclosed that it has “credible evidence” of active exploitation of the recently disclosed security flaw in Fortra GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) software…
Sep 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of a known Apple macOS malware called XCSSET that has been observed in limited attacks. “This new variant of XCSSET brings…
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has revealed that threat actors have exploited the recently disclosed security flaws impacting Cisco firewalls as part of zero-day attacks to deliver previously undocumented malware families like RayInitiator…
Sep 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Vulnerability Cisco is urging customers to patch two security flaws impacting the VPN web server of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense…
Sep 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalvertising / Threat Intelligence The threat actor known as Vane Viper has been outed as a purveyor of malicious ad technology (adtech), while relying on a tangled web of shell companies and…
Sep 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / AI Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical flaw impacting Salesforce Agentforce, a platform for building artificial intelligence (AI) agents, that could allow attackers to potentially exfiltrate sensitive data from…
The North Korea-linked threat actors associated with the Contagious Interview campaign have been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called AkdoorTea, along with tools like TsunamiKit and Tropidoor. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which is tracking…