Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, Exploits & Government Alerts
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Microsoft is calling attention to a new phishing campaign primarily aimed at U.S.-based organizations that has likely utilized code generated using large language models (LLMs) to obfuscate payloads and evade security defenses. “Appearing to be…
Sep 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananMCP Server / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what has been described as the first-ever instance of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server spotted in the wild, raising software supply chain risks.…
Sep 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Network Security Telecommunications and manufacturing sectors in Central and South Asian countries have emerged as the target of an ongoing campaign distributing a new variant of a known malware called…
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…