Dec 29, 2026Ravie LakshmananHacking News / Cybersecurity Last week’s cyber news in 2025 was not about one big incident. It was about many small cracks opening at the same time. Tools people trust every day…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what has been described as a “sustained and targeted” spear-phishing campaign that has published over two dozen packages to the npm registry to facilitate credential theft. The activity, which…
Dec 29, 2026Ravie LakshmananDatabase Security / Vulnerability A recently disclosed security vulnerability in MongoDB has come under active exploitation in the wild, with over 87,000 potentially susceptible instances identified across the world. The vulnerability in…
In December 2024, the popular Ultralytics AI library was compromised, installing malicious code that hijacked system resources for cryptocurrency mining. In August 2025, malicious Nx packages leaked 2,349 GitHub, cloud, and AI credentials. Throughout 2024,…
Dec 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananDatabase Security / Vulnerability A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in MongoDB that could allow unauthenticated users to read uninitialized heap memory. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-14847 (CVSS score: 8.7), has…
Dec 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Incident Response Trust Wallet is urging users to update its Google Chrome extension to the latest version following what it described as a “security incident” that led to the loss…
A China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been attributed to a highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign in which the adversary poisoned Domain Name System (DNS) requests to deliver its signature MgBot backdoor in attacks targeting…
Dec 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / DevSecOps A critical security flaw has been disclosed in LangChain Core that could be exploited by an attacker to steal sensitive secrets and even influence large language model (LLM)…
Dec 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News It’s getting harder to tell where normal tech ends and malicious intent begins. Attackers are no longer just breaking in — they’re blending in, hijacking everyday tools, trusted…
Dec 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Financial Crime The encrypted vault backups stolen from the 2022 LastPass data breach have enabled bad actors to take advantage of weak master passwords to crack them open and…