Aug 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cybercrime Authorities from the Netherlands and the United States have announced the dismantling of an illicit marketplace called VerifTools that peddled fraudulent identity documents to cybercriminals across the world. To…
Aug 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Salesforce Google has revealed that the recent wave of attacks targeting Salesforce instances via Salesloft Drift is much broader in scope than previously thought, stating it impacts all integrations.…
Aug 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Windows Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cybercrime campaign that’s using malvertising tricks to direct victims to fraudulent sites to deliver a new information stealer called TamperedChef. “The objective is…
Aug 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Ransomware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a loophole in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace that allows threat actors to reuse names of previously removed extensions. Software supply chain security outfit ReversingLabs…
The China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Salt Typhoon has continued its attacks targeting networks across the world, including organizations in the telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military infrastructure sectors. “While these actors…
Aug 28, 2025The Hacker NewsCloud Security / Generative AI Picture this: Your team rolls out some new code, thinking everything’s fine. But hidden in there is a tiny flaw that explodes into a huge problem…
Every day, businesses, teams, and project managers trust platforms like Trello, Asana, etc., to collaborate and manage tasks. But what happens when that trust is broken? According to a recent report by Statista, the average…
The maintainers of the nx build system have alerted users to a supply chain attack that allowed attackers to publish malicious versions of the popular npm package and other auxiliary plugins with data-gathering capabilities. “Malicious…
Aug 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Malware The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a fresh round of sanctions against two individuals and two entities for their role in…
The financially motivated threat actor known as Storm-0501 has been observed refining its tactics to conduct data exfiltration and extortion attacks targeting cloud environments. “Unlike traditional on-premises ransomware, where the threat actor typically deploys malware…