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Ivanti Zero-Days Exploited to Drop MDifyLoader and Launch In-Memory Cobalt Strike Attacks

Ivanti Zero-Days Exploited to Drop MDifyLoader and Launch In-Memory Cobalt Strike Attacks

Jul 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malware called MDifyLoader that has been observed in conjunction with cyber attacks exploiting security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances.… 

CERT-UA Discovers LAMEHUG Malware Linked to APT28, Using LLM for Phishing Campaign

CERT-UA Discovers LAMEHUG Malware Linked to APT28, Using LLM for Phishing Campaign

Jul 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Malware The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a phishing campaign that’s designed to deliver a malware codenamed LAMEHUG. “An obvious feature of LAMEHUG… 

Google Sues 25 Chinese Entities Over BADBOX 2.0 Botnet Affecting 10M Android Devices

Google Sues 25 Chinese Entities Over BADBOX 2.0 Botnet Affecting 10M Android Devices

Jul 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Network Security Google on Thursday revealed it’s pursuing legal action in New York federal court against 25 unnamed individuals or entities in China for allegedly operating BADBOX 2.0 botnet and… 

Critical NVIDIA Container Toolkit Flaw Allows Privilege Escalation on AI Cloud Services

Critical NVIDIA Container Toolkit Flaw Allows Privilege Escalation on AI Cloud Services

Jul 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / AI Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical container escape vulnerability in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit that could pose a severe threat to managed AI cloud services. The vulnerability,… 

Hackers Use GitHub Repositories to Host Amadey Malware and Data Stealers, Bypassing Filters

Hackers Use GitHub Repositories to Host Amadey Malware and Data Stealers, Bypassing Filters

Jul 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Social Engineering Threat actors are leveraging public GitHub repositories to host malicious payloads and distribute them via Amadey as part of a campaign observed in April 2025. “The MaaS [malware-as-a-service]… 

Hackers Exploit Apache HTTP Server Flaw to Deploy Linuxsys Cryptocurrency Miner

Hackers Exploit Apache HTTP Server Flaw to Deploy Linuxsys Cryptocurrency Miner

Jul 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that exploits a known security flaw impacting Apache HTTP Server to deliver a cryptocurrency miner called Linuxsys. The vulnerability in question is… 

Europol Disrupts NoName057(16) Hacktivist Group Linked to DDoS Attacks Against Ukraine

Europol Disrupts NoName057(16) Hacktivist Group Linked to DDoS Attacks Against Ukraine

An international operation coordinated by Europol has disrupted the infrastructure of a pro-Russian hacktivist group known as NoName057(16) that has been linked to a string of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Ukraine and its allies.… 

Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan’s Semiconductor Sector with Cobalt Strike, Custom Backdoors

Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan’s Semiconductor Sector with Cobalt Strike, Custom Backdoors

The Taiwanese semiconductor industry has become the target of spear-phishing campaigns undertaken by three Chinese state-sponsored threat actors. “Targets of these campaigns ranged from organizations involved in the manufacturing, design, and testing of semiconductors and…