Oct 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananAgentic AI / Enterprise Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new attack called CometJacking targeting Perplexity’s agentic AI browser Comet by embedding malicious prompts within a seemingly innocuous link to…
Oct 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Threat intelligence firm GreyNoise disclosed on Friday that it has observed a spike in scanning activity targeting Palo Alto Networks login portals. The company said it observed a…
A threat actor named Detour Dog has been outed as powering campaigns distributing an information stealer known as Strela Stealer. That’s according to findings from Infoblox, which found the threat actor to maintain control of…
The threat actor behind Rhadamanthys has also advertised two other tools called Elysium Proxy Bot and Crypt Service on their website, even as the flagship information stealer has been updated to support the ability to…
Oct 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Online Security Brazilian users have emerged as the target of a new self-propagating malware that spreads via the popular messaging app WhatsApp. The campaign, codenamed SORVEPOTEL by Trend Micro, weaponizes…
Passwork is positioned as an on-premises unified platform for both password and secrets management, aiming to address the increasing complexity of credential storage and sharing in modern organizations. The platform recently received a major update…
Oct 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Malware A threat actor that’s known to share overlaps with a hacking group called YoroTrooper has been observed targeting the Russian public sector with malware families such as FoalShell and…
Oct 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / IoT Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a high-severity security flaw impacting Smartbedded Meteobridge to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of…
Oct 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage The threat actor known as Confucius has been attributed to a new phishing campaign that has targeted Pakistan with malware families like WooperStealer and Anondoor. “Over the past…
Oct 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananPython / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that claims to offer the ability to create a SOCKS5 proxy service, while also providing…