Oct 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a self-propagating worm that spreads via Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions on the Open VSX Registry and the Microsoft Extension Marketplace, underscoring how developers…
Oct 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a new wave of attacks targeting European companies active in the defense industry as part of…
Oct 23, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Data Protection AI is everywhere—and your company wants in. Faster products, smarter systems, fewer bottlenecks. But if you’re in security, that excitement often comes with a sinking feeling.…
Oct 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News Criminals don’t need to be clever all the time; they just follow the easiest path in: trick users, exploit stale components, or abuse trusted systems like OAuth and…
Oct 23, 2025The Hacker NewsDevOps / Data Protection As machine identities explode across cloud environments, enterprises report dramatic productivity gains from eliminating static credentials. And only legacy systems remain the weak link. For decades, organizations…
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a cybercriminal group called Jingle Thief that has been observed targeting cloud environments associated with organizations in the retail and consumer services sectors for gift card fraud. “Jingle Thief…
Oct 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Vulnerability E-commerce security company Sansec has warned that threat actors have begun to exploit a recently disclosed security vulnerability in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source platforms, with more…
Oct 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating…
Oct 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Espionage The Iranian nation-state group known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new campaign that has leveraged a compromised email account to distribute a backdoor called Phoenix to…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a coordinated spear-phishing campaign dubbed PhantomCaptcha targeting organizations associated with Ukraine’s war relief efforts to deliver a remote access trojan that uses a WebSocket for command-and-control (C2). The activity,…