Jul 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Zero-Day Google on Tuesday rolled out fixes for six security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity…
Jul 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Vulnerability Google on Tuesday revealed that its large language model (LLM)-assisted vulnerability discovery framework discovered a security flaw in the SQLite open-source database engine before it could have been…
Jul 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Network Security Cloudflare on Tuesday said it mitigated 7.3 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the second quarter of 2025, a significant drop from 20.5 million DDoS attacks it fended…
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation called GLOBAL GROUP that has targeted a wide range of sectors in Australia, Brazil, Europe, and the United States since its emergence in early…
Jul 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Governmental organizations in Southeast Asia are the target of a new campaign that aims to collect sensitive information by means of a previously undocumented Windows backdoor dubbed…
Jul 15, 2025The Hacker NewsAutomation / Risk Management AI agents promise to automate everything from financial reconciliations to incident response. Yet every time an AI agent spins up a workflow, it has to authenticate somewhere;…
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of a widely used remote access trojan called AsyncRAT, which was first released on GitHub in January 2019 and has since served as the foundation for several other variants.…
Jul 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Web Security The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing another set of 67 malicious packages to the npm registry, underscoring ongoing attempts…
Jul 14, 2025The Hacker NewsSecrets Management / SaaS Security While phishing and ransomware dominate headlines, another critical risk quietly persists across most enterprises: exposed Git repositories leaking sensitive data. A risk that silently creates shadow…
Jul 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Web Security Threat actors behind the Interlock ransomware group have unleashed a new PHP variant of its bespoke remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a widespread campaign using a…