Oct 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Software Integrity Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new supply chain attack targeting the NuGet package manager with malicious typosquats of Nethereum, a popular Ethereum .NET integration platform, to steal victims’…
Oct 22, 2025The Hacker NewsData Breach / Enterprise Security The advice didn’t change for decades: use complex passwords with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. The idea is to make passwords harder for hackers to crack…
Oct 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Network Security Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a new campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron, according to findings from Kaspersky. The…
Oct 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Protection Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a high-severity flaw impacting the popular async-tar Rust library and its forks, including tokio-tar, that could result in remote code execution under…
Oct 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security TP-Link has released security updates to address four security flaws impacting Omada gateway devices, including two critical bugs that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities in…
Oct 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Encryption Meta on Tuesday said it’s launching new tools to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. To that end, the company said it’s introducing new warnings on WhatsApp…
Oct 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of a botnet malware called PolarEdge. PolarEdge was first documented by Sekoia in February 2025, attributing it to a campaign…
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise for improving cyber defense and making the lives of security practitioners easier. It can help teams cut through alert fatigue, spot patterns faster, and bring a level of scale…
Oct 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence A new malware attributed to the Russia-linked hacking group known as COLDRIVER has undergone numerous developmental iterations since May 2025, suggesting an increased “operations tempo” from the…
Oct 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Network Security A European telecommunications organization is said to have been targeted by a threat actor that aligns with a China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Salt Typhoon. The…