Jul 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Ransomware The notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider is targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors in attacks targeting retail, airline, and transportation sectors in North America. “The group’s core tactics…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered over a dozen security vulnerabilities impacting Tridium’s Niagara Framework that could allow an attacker on the same network to compromise the system under certain circumstances. “These vulnerabilities are fully exploitable if…
Jul 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Insider Threat The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a North Korean front company and three associated individuals for their involvement in the fraudulent…
Jul 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence The threat actor known as Patchwork has been attributed to a new spear-phishing campaign targeting Turkish defense contractors with the goal of gathering strategic intelligence. “The campaign employs…
Jul 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Russian aerospace and defense industries have become the target of a cyber espionage campaign that delivers a backdoor called EAGLET to facilitate data exfiltration. The activity, dubbed Operation…
Jul 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cloud Security Threat hunters have disclosed two different malware campaigns that have targeted vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across cloud environments to deliver cryptocurrency miners. The threat activity clusters have been codenamed…
Jul 25, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Data Privacy A recent analysis of enterprise data suggests that generative AI tools developed in China are being used extensively by employees in the US and UK, often…
Jul 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Mitel has released security updates to address a critical security flaw in MiVoice MX-ONE that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication protections. “An authentication bypass vulnerability has…
Jul 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananVirtualization / Network Security Virtualization and networking infrastructure have been targeted by a threat actor codenamed Fire Ant as part of a prolonged cyber espionage campaign. The activity, observed this year, is…
Jul 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new versatile malware loader called CastleLoader that has been put to use in campaigns distributing various information stealers and remote access trojans…