Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that’s capable of harvesting sensitive developer-related information, such as credentials, configuration data, and environment variables, among others. The package, named chimera-sandbox-extensions,…
A new malware campaign is exploiting a weakness in Discord’s invitation system to deliver an information stealer called Skuld and the AsyncRAT remote access trojan. “Attackers hijacked the links through vanity link registration, allowing them…
Jun 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananWeb Security / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a “large-scale campaign” that has been observed compromising legitimate websites with malicious JavaScript injections. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42,…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday disclosed that ransomware actors are targeting unpatched SimpleHelp Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) instances to compromise customers of an unnamed utility billing software provider. “This…
Introduction: Security at a Tipping Point Security Operations Centers (SOCs) were built for a different era, one defined by perimeter-based thinking, known threats, and manageable alert volumes. But today’s threat landscape doesn’t play by those…
Apple has disclosed that a now-patched security flaw present in its Messages app was actively exploited in the wild to target civil society members in sophisticated cyber attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-43200, was addressed…
Jun 12, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Malware The threat actors behind the VexTrio Viper Traffic Distribution Service (TDS) have been linked to other TDS services like Help TDS and Disposable TDS, indicating that the sophisticated…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel attack technique called TokenBreak that can be used to bypass a large language model’s (LLM) safety and content moderation guardrails with just a single character change. “The TokenBreak attack…
Jun 12, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / SaaS Security AI is changing everything — from how we code, to how we sell, to how we secure. But while most conversations focus on what AI can…
A novel attack technique named EchoLeak has been characterized as a “zero-click” artificial intelligence (AI) vulnerability that allows bad actors to exfiltrate sensitive data from Microsoft 365 Copilot’s context sans any user interaction. The critical-rated…