Oct 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Malware Unknown threat actors are abusing Milesight industrial cellular routers to send SMS messages as part of a smishing campaign targeting users in European countries since at least February 2022.…
Oct 01, 2025The Hacker NewsAttack Surface / Artificial Intelligence Bitdefender’s 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment Report paints a sobering picture of today’s cyber defense landscape: mounting pressure to remain silent after breaches, a gap between leadership and…
A previously undocumented Android banking trojan called Klopatra has compromised over 3,000 devices, with a majority of the infections reported in Spain and Italy. Italian fraud prevention firm Cleafy, which discovered the sophisticated malware and…
Oct 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Incident Response The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of new targeted cyber attacks in the country using a backdoor called CABINETRAT. The activity, observed in September…
A group of academics from KU Leuven and the University of Birmingham has demonstrated a new vulnerability called Battering RAM to bypass the latest defenses on Intel and AMD cloud processors. “We built a simple,…
Sep 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Government and telecommunications organizations across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have emerged as the target of a previously undocumented China-aligned nation-state actor dubbed Phantom Taurus over the…
Sep 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three now-patched security vulnerabilities impacting Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could have exposed users to major privacy risks and…
Sep 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Threat Detection Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the expansion of its Sentinel Security Incidents and Event Management solution (SIEM) as a unified agentic platform with the general availability of the…
Sep 30, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Threat Detection The Problem: Legacy SOCs and Endless Alert Noise Every SOC leader knows the feeling: hundreds of alerts pouring in, dashboards lighting up like a slot machine,…
Sep 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Vulnerability A newly patched security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day since mid-October 2024 by a threat actor…