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BlackLock Ransomware Exposed After Researchers Exploit Leak Site Vulnerability

BlackLock Ransomware Exposed After Researchers Exploit Leak Site Vulnerability

Mar 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Vulnerability In what’s an instance of hacking the hackers, threat hunters have managed to infiltrate the online infrastructure associated with a ransomware group called BlackLock, uncovering crucial information about their… 

Researchers Uncover 46 Critical Flaws in Solar Inverters From Sungrow, Growatt, and SMA

Researchers Uncover 46 Critical Flaws in Solar Inverters From Sungrow, Growatt, and SMA

Mar 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananOperational Technology / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed 46 new security flaws in products from three solar inverter vendors, Sungrow, Growatt, and SMA, that could be exploited by a bad actor to… 

CoffeeLoader Uses GPU-Based Armoury Packer to Evade EDR and Antivirus Detection

CoffeeLoader Uses GPU-Based Armoury Packer to Evade EDR and Antivirus Detection

Mar 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new sophisticated malware called CoffeeLoader that’s designed to download and execute secondary payloads. The malware, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz, shares… 

Nine-Year-Old npm Packages Hijacked to Exfiltrate API Keys via Obfuscated Scripts

Nine-Year-Old npm Packages Hijacked to Exfiltrate API Keys via Obfuscated Scripts

Mar 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Developer Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered several cryptocurrency packages on the npm registry that have been hijacked to siphon sensitive information such as environment variables from compromised systems. “Some of… 

Mozilla Patches Critical Firefox Bug Similar to Chrome’s Recent Zero-Day Vulnerability

Mozilla Patches Critical Firefox Bug Similar to Chrome’s Recent Zero-Day Vulnerability

Mar 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Browser Security Mozilla has released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting its Firefox browser for Windows, merely days after Google patched a similar flaw in Chrome that came… 

New Morphing Meerkat Phishing Kit Mimics 114 Brands Using Victims’ DNS Email Records

New Morphing Meerkat Phishing Kit Mimics 114 Brands Using Victims’ DNS Email Records

Mar 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform that leverages the Domain Name System (DNS) mail exchange (MX) records to serve fake login pages that… 

Hackers Repurpose RansomHub’s EDRKillShifter in Medusa, BianLian, and Play Attacks

Hackers Repurpose RansomHub’s EDRKillShifter in Medusa, BianLian, and Play Attacks

Mar 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Ransomware A new analysis has uncovered connections between affiliates of RansomHub and other ransomware groups like Medusa, BianLian, and Play. The connection stems from the use of a custom… 

APT36 Spoofs India Post Website to Infect Windows and Android Users with Malware

APT36 Spoofs India Post Website to Infect Windows and Android Users with Malware

Mar 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Malware An advanced persistent threat (APT) group with ties to Pakistan has been attributed to the creation of a fake website masquerading as India’s public sector postal system as…