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React2Shell Exploitation Delivers Crypto Miners and New Malware Across Multiple Sectors

React2Shell Exploitation Delivers Crypto Miners and New Malware Across Multiple Sectors

React2Shell continues to witness heavy exploitation, with threat actors leveraging the maximum-severity security flaw in React Server Components (RSC) to deliver cryptocurrency miners and an array of previously undocumented malware families, according to new findings… 

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.NET SOAPwn Flaw Opens Door for File Writes and Remote Code Execution via Rogue WSDL

.NET SOAPwn Flaw Opens Door for File Writes and Remote Code Execution via Rogue WSDL

Dec 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Web Services New research has uncovered exploitation primitives in the .NET Framework that could be leveraged against enterprise-grade applications to achieve remote code execution. WatchTowr Labs, which has codenamed… 

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Three PCIe Encryption Weaknesses Expose PCIe 5.0+ Systems to Faulty Data Handling

Three PCIe Encryption Weaknesses Expose PCIe 5.0+ Systems to Faulty Data Handling

Dec 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananHardware Security / Vulnerability Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Integrity and Data Encryption (IDE) protocol specification that could expose a local attacker to serious… 

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WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-6218 Under Active Attack by Multiple Threat Groups

WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-6218 Under Active Attack by Multiple Threat Groups

Dec 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Malware The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a security flaw impacting the WinRAR file archiver and compression utility to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog,… 

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How Attackers Exploit Cloud Misconfigurations Across AWS, AI Models, and Kubernetes

How Attackers Exploit Cloud Misconfigurations Across AWS, AI Models, and Kubernetes

Dec 10, 2025The Hacker NewsCloud Security / Threat Detection Cloud security is changing. Attackers are no longer just breaking down the door; they are finding unlocked windows in your configurations, your identities, and your code.… 

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Microsoft Issues Security Fixes for 56 Flaws, Including Active Exploit and Two Zero-Days

Microsoft Issues Security Fixes for 56 Flaws, Including Active Exploit and Two Zero-Days

Microsoft closed out 2025 with patches for 56 security flaws in various products across the Windows platform, including one vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild. Of the 56 flaws, three are rated… 

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Fortinet, Ivanti, and SAP Issue Urgent Patches for Authentication and Code Execution Flaws

Fortinet, Ivanti, and SAP Issue Urgent Patches for Authentication and Code Execution Flaws

Dec 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Endpoint Security Fortinet, Ivanti, and SAP have moved to address critical security flaws in their products that, if successfully exploited, could result in an authentication bypass and code execution. The… 

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North Korea-linked Actors Exploit React2Shell to Deploy New EtherRAT Malware

North Korea-linked Actors Exploit React2Shell to Deploy New EtherRAT Malware

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have likely become the latest to exploit the recently disclosed critical security React2Shell flaw in React Server Components (RSC) to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan dubbed… 

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Four Threat Clusters Using CastleLoader as GrayBravo Expands Its Malware Service Infrastructure

Four Threat Clusters Using CastleLoader as GrayBravo Expands Its Malware Service Infrastructure

Dec 09, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Malware Four distinct threat activity clusters have been observed leveraging a malware loader known as CastleLoader, strengthening the previous assessment that the tool is offered to other threat actors under… 

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Storm-0249 Escalates Ransomware Attacks with ClickFix, Fileless PowerShell, and DLL Sideloading

Storm-0249 Escalates Ransomware Attacks with ClickFix, Fileless PowerShell, and DLL Sideloading

Dec 09, 2025Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Endpoint Security The threat actor known as Storm-0249 is likely shifting from its role as an initial access broker to adopt a combination of more advanced tactics like domain spoofing,… 

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