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RondoDox Exploits Unpatched XWiki Servers to Pull More Devices Into Its Botnet

RondoDox Exploits Unpatched XWiki Servers to Pull More Devices Into Its Botnet

Nov 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability The botnet malware known as RondoDox has been observed targeting unpatched XWiki instances against a critical security flaw that could allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability… 

Five U.S. Citizens Plead Guilty to Helping North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate 136 Companies

Five U.S. Citizens Plead Guilty to Helping North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate 136 Companies

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday announced that five individuals have pleaded guilty to assisting North Korea’s illicit revenue generation schemes by enabling information technology (IT) worker fraud in violation of international sanctions.… 

North Korean Hackers Turn JSON Services into Covert Malware Delivery Channels

North Korean Hackers Turn JSON Services into Covert Malware Delivery Channels

Nov 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage malicious payloads. “The threat actors… 

Researchers Find Serious AI Bugs Exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft Inference Frameworks

Researchers Find Serious AI Bugs Exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft Inference Frameworks

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including those from Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open-source PyTorch projects such as vLLM and SGLang. “These vulnerabilities all traced… 

Iranian Hackers Launch ‘SpearSpecter’ Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets

Iranian Hackers Launch ‘SpearSpecter’ Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. The activity,… 

Ransomware’s Fragmentation Reaches a Breaking Point While LockBit Returns

Ransomware’s Fragmentation Reaches a Breaking Point While LockBit Returns

Key Takeaways: 85 active ransomware and extortion groups observed in Q3 2025, reflecting the most decentralized ransomware ecosystem to date. 1,590 victims disclosed across 85 leak sites, showing high, sustained activity despite law-enforcement pressure. 14… 

Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic’s AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign

Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic’s AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign

State-sponsored threat actors from China used artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by Anthropic to orchestrate automated cyber attacks as part of a “highly sophisticated espionage campaign” in mid-September 2025. “The attackers used AI’s ‘agentic’ capabilities… 

Now-Patched Fortinet FortiWeb Flaw Exploited in Attacks to Create Admin Accounts

Now-Patched Fortinet FortiWeb Flaw Exploited in Attacks to Create Admin Accounts

Nov 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alert about an authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb WAF that could allow an attacker to take over admin accounts and completely compromise… 

Russian Hackers Create 4,300 Fake Travel Sites to Steal Hotel Guests’ Payment Data

Russian Hackers Create 4,300 Fake Travel Sites to Steal Hotel Guests’ Payment Data

A Russian-speaking threat behind an ongoing, mass phishing campaign has registered more than 4,300 domain names since the start of the year. The activity, per Netcraft security researcher Andrew Brandt, is designed to target customers… 

Fake Chrome Extension “Safery” Steals Ethereum Wallet Seed Phrases Using Sui Blockchain

Fake Chrome Extension “Safery” Steals Ethereum Wallet Seed Phrases Using Sui Blockchain

Nov 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a malicious Chrome extension that poses as a legitimate Ethereum wallet but harbors functionality to exfiltrate users’ seed phrases. The name of the…