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North Korea Uses GitHub in Diplomat Cyber Attacks as IT Worker Scheme Hits 320+ Firms

North Korea Uses GitHub in Diplomat Cyber Attacks as IT Worker Scheme Hits 320+ Firms

North Korean threat actors have been attributed to a coordinated cyber espionage campaign targeting diplomatic missions in their southern counterpart between March and July 2025. The activity manifested in the form of at least 19… 

DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks

DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks

Aug 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Cybercrime A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly developing and overseeing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire botnet called RapperBot. Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon,… 

Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited to Deploy DripDropper Malware on Cloud Linux Systems

Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited to Deploy DripDropper Malware on Cloud Linux Systems

Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananLinux / Malware Threat actors are exploiting a nearly two-year-old security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to gain persistent access to cloud Linux systems and deploy malware called DripDropper. But in an unusual… 

New GodRAT Trojan Targets Trading Firms Using Steganography and Gh0st RAT Code

New GodRAT Trojan Targets Trading Firms Using Steganography and Gh0st RAT Code

Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Attack Financial institutions like trading and brokerage firms are the target of a new campaign that delivers a previously unreported remote access trojan called GodRAT. The malicious activity involves… 

Public Exploit for Chained SAP Flaws Exposes Unpatched Systems to Remote Code Execution

Public Exploit for Chained SAP Flaws Exposes Unpatched Systems to Remote Code Execution

Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cyber Espionage A new exploit combining two critical, now-patched security flaws in SAP NetWeaver has emerged in the wild, putting organizations at risk of system compromise and data theft. The… 

U.K. Government Drops Apple Encryption Backdoor Order After U.S. Civil Liberties Pushback

U.K. Government Drops Apple Encryption Backdoor Order After U.S. Civil Liberties Pushback

Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Cloud Security The U.K. government has apparently abandoned its plans to force Apple to weaken encryption protections and include a backdoor that would have enabled access to the protected data… 

PyPI Blocks 1,800 Expired-Domain Emails to Prevent Account Takeovers and Supply Chain Attacks

PyPI Blocks 1,800 Expired-Domain Emails to Prevent Account Takeovers and Supply Chain Attacks

Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain Security The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository have announced that the package manager now checks for expired domains to prevent supply chain attacks. “These changes improve PyPI’s… 

Noodlophile Malware Campaign Expands Global Reach with Copyright Phishing Lures

Noodlophile Malware Campaign Expands Global Reach with Copyright Phishing Lures

Aug 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Enterprise Security The threat actors behind the Noodlophile malware are leveraging spear-phishing emails and updated delivery mechanisms to deploy the information stealer in attacks aimed at enterprises located in the…