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PoisonSeed Hackers Bypass FIDO Keys Using QR Phishing and Cross-Device Sign-In Abuse

PoisonSeed Hackers Bypass FIDO Keys Using QR Phishing and Cross-Device Sign-In Abuse

Jul 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Authentication Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel attack technique that allows threat actors to bypass Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) key protections by deceiving users into approving authentication requests from… 

Microsoft Releases Urgent Patch for SharePoint RCE Flaw Exploited in Ongoing Cyber Attacks

Microsoft Releases Urgent Patch for SharePoint RCE Flaw Exploited in Ongoing Cyber Attacks

Microsoft on Sunday released security patches for an actively exploited security flaw in SharePoint and also released details of another vulnerability that it said has been addressed with “more robust protections.” The tech giant acknowledged… 

Hard-Coded Credentials Found in HPE Instant On Devices Allow Admin Access

Hard-Coded Credentials Found in HPE Instant On Devices Allow Admin Access

Jul 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released security updates to address a critical security flaw affecting Instant On Access Points that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and gain… 

3,500 Websites Hijacked to Secretly Mine Crypto Using Stealth JavaScript and WebSocket Tactics

3,500 Websites Hijacked to Secretly Mine Crypto Using Stealth JavaScript and WebSocket Tactics

Jul 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananWeb Security / Cryptocurrency A new attack campaign has compromised more than 3,500 websites worldwide with JavaScript cryptocurrency miners, marking the return of browser-based cryptojacking attacks once popularized by the likes of… 

EncryptHub Targets Web3 Developers Using Fake AI Platforms to Deploy Fickle Stealer Malware

EncryptHub Targets Web3 Developers Using Fake AI Platforms to Deploy Fickle Stealer Malware

Jul 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Infostealers The financially motivated threat actor known as EncryptHub (aka LARVA-208 and Water Gamayun) has been attributed to a new campaign that’s targeting Web3 developers to infect them with… 

Critical Unpatched SharePoint Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Breaches 75+ Global Organizations

Critical Unpatched SharePoint Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Breaches 75+ Global Organizations

Jul 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Vulnerability A critical security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server has been weaponized as part of an “active, large-scale” exploitation campaign. The zero-day flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-53770 (CVSS score: 9.8), has… 

Malware Injected into 6 npm Packages After Maintainer Tokens Stolen in Phishing Attack

Malware Injected into 6 npm Packages After Maintainer Tokens Stolen in Phishing Attack

Jul 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have alerted to a supply chain attack that has targeted popular npm packages via a phishing campaign designed to steal the project maintainers’ npm tokens. The… 

Hackers Exploit Critical CrushFTP Flaw to Gain Admin Access on Unpatched Servers

Hackers Exploit Critical CrushFTP Flaw to Gain Admin Access on Unpatched Servers

Jul 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence A newly disclosed critical security flaw in CrushFTP has come under active exploitation in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-54309, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of… 

China’s Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones

China’s Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones

Jul 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananSurveillance / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a mobile forensics tool called Massistant that’s used by law enforcement authorities in China to gather information from seized mobile devices. The… 

UNG0002 Group Hits China, Hong Kong, Pakistan Using LNK Files and RATs in Twin Campaigns

UNG0002 Group Hits China, Hong Kong, Pakistan Using LNK Files and RATs in Twin Campaigns

Jul 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Multiple sectors in China, Hong Kong, and Pakistan have become the target of a threat activity cluster tracked as UNG0002 (aka Unknown Group 0002) as part of a…