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Europol Shuts Down Six DDoS-for-Hire Services Used in Global Attacks

Europol Shuts Down Six DDoS-for-Hire Services Used in Global Attacks

May 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananDark Web / Cybercrime Europol has announced the takedown of distributed denial of service (DDoS)-for-hire services that were used to launch thousands of cyber-attacks across the world. In connection with the operation,… 

OttoKit WordPress Plugin with 100K+ Installs Hit by Exploits Targeting Multiple Flaws

OttoKit WordPress Plugin with 100K+ Installs Hit by Exploits Targeting Multiple Flaws

May 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Web Security A second security flaw impacting the OttoKit (formerly SureTriggers) WordPress plugin has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-27007 (CVSS score: 9.8), is… 

SysAid Patches 4 Critical Flaws Enabling Pre-Auth RCE in On-Premise Version

SysAid Patches 4 Critical Flaws Enabling Pre-Auth RCE in On-Premise Version

May 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / IT Service Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security flaw in the on-premise version of SysAid IT support software that could be exploited to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution with elevated… 

Play Ransomware Exploited Windows CVE-2025-29824 as Zero-Day to Breach U.S. Organization

Play Ransomware Exploited Windows CVE-2025-29824 as Zero-Day to Breach U.S. Organization

Threat actors with links to the Play ransomware family exploited a recently patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows as a zero-day as part of an attack targeting an unnamed organization in the United States. The… 

Researchers Uncover Malware in Fake Discord PyPI Package Downloaded 11,500+ Times

Researchers Uncover Malware in Fake Discord PyPI Package Downloaded 11,500+ Times

May 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananSoftware Supply Chain / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerades as a seemingly harmless Discord-related utility but incorporates a remote access… 

NSO Group Fined 8M for Targeting 1,400 WhatsApp Users With Pegasus Spyware

NSO Group Fined $168M for Targeting 1,400 WhatsApp Users With Pegasus Spyware

May 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Spyware A federal jury on Tuesday decided that NSO Group must pay Meta-owned WhatsApp WhatsApp approximately $168 million in monetary damages, more than four months after a federal judge ruled… 

Hackers Exploit Samsung MagicINFO, GeoVision IoT Flaws to Deploy Mirai Botnet

Hackers Exploit Samsung MagicINFO, GeoVision IoT Flaws to Deploy Mirai Botnet

May 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananInternet of Thing / Vulnerability Threat actors have been observed actively exploiting security flaws in GeoVision end-of-life (EoL) Internet of Things (IoT) devices to corral them into a Mirai botnet for conducting… 

New Investment Scams Use Facebook Ads, RDGA Domains, and IP Checks to Filter Victims

New Investment Scams Use Facebook Ads, RDGA Domains, and IP Checks to Filter Victims

Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on two threat actors that orchestrate investment scams through spoofed celebrity endorsements and conceal their activity through traffic distribution systems (TDSes). The activity clusters have been codenamed Reckless Rabbit…