The maintainers of the nx build system have alerted users to a supply chain attack that allowed attackers to publish malicious versions of the popular npm package and other auxiliary plugins with data-gathering capabilities. “Malicious…
Aug 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Malware The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a fresh round of sanctions against two individuals and two entities for their role in…
The financially motivated threat actor known as Storm-0501 has been observed refining its tactics to conduct data exfiltration and extortion attacks targeting cloud environments. “Unlike traditional on-premises ransomware, where the threat actor typically deploys malware…
Cybersecurity company ESET has disclosed that it discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ransomware variant codenamed PromptLock. Written in Golang, the newly identified strain uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to…
Aug 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Artificial Intelligence Anthropic on Wednesday revealed that it disrupted a sophisticated operation that weaponized its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot Claude to conduct large-scale theft and extortion of personal data…
A threat activity cluster known as ShadowSilk has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government entities within Central Asia and Asia-Pacific (APAC). According to Group-IB, nearly three dozen victims have been identified,…
Aug 27, 2025The Hacker NewsEnterprise Security / Data Protection Employees are experimenting with AI at record speed. They are drafting emails, analyzing data, and transforming the workplace. The problem is not the pace of AI…
Aug 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Threat Intelligence A widespread data theft campaign has allowed hackers to breach sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens associated with the Drift artificial intelligence (AI)…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five distinct activity clusters linked to a persistent threat actor known as Blind Eagle between May 2024 and July 2025. These attacks, observed by Recorded Future Insikt Group, targeted various victims,…
Aug 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Remote Code Execution Citrix has released fixes to address three security flaws in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including one that it said has been actively exploited in the wild.…