Aug 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cybercrime A 20-year-old member of the notorious cybercrime gang known as Scattered Spider has been sentenced to ten years in prison in the U.S. in connection with a series…
Aug 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Zero-Day Apple has released security updates to address a security flaw impacting iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The zero-day out-of-bounds…
Aug 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Browser Security Popular password manager plugins for web browsers have been found susceptible to clickjacking security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to steal account credentials, two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, and…
Aug 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Vulnerability A Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Static Tundra has been observed actively exploiting a seven-year-old security flaw in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE software as…
Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new prompt injection technique called PromptFix that tricks a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model into carrying out intended actions by embedding the malicious instruction inside a fake CAPTCHA check on…
Aug 20, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Enterprise Security Do you know how many AI agents are running inside your business right now? If the answer is “not sure,” you’re not alone—and that’s exactly the…
Modern businesses face a rapidly evolving and expanding threat landscape, but what does this mean for your business? It means a growing number of risks, along with an increase in their frequency, variety, complexity, severity,…
North Korean threat actors have been attributed to a coordinated cyber espionage campaign targeting diplomatic missions in their southern counterpart between March and July 2025. The activity manifested in the form of at least 19…
Aug 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Cybercrime A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly developing and overseeing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire botnet called RapperBot. Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon,…
Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananLinux / Malware Threat actors are exploiting a nearly two-year-old security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to gain persistent access to cloud Linux systems and deploy malware called DripDropper. But in an unusual…