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U.S. Sanctions Russian Bulletproof Hosting Provider for Supporting Cybercriminals Behind Ransomware

U.S. Sanctions Russian Bulletproof Hosting Provider for Supporting Cybercriminals Behind Ransomware

Jul 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Dark Web The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) service provider Aeza Group to assist threat actors… 

Vercel’s v0 AI Tool Weaponized by Cybercriminals to Rapidly Create Fake Login Pages at Scale

Vercel’s v0 AI Tool Weaponized by Cybercriminals to Rapidly Create Fake Login Pages at Scale

Jul 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Phishing Unknown threat actors have been observed weaponizing v0, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool from Vercel, to design fake sign-in pages that impersonate their legitimate counterparts. “This observation… 

Critical Vulnerability in Anthropic’s MCP Exposes Developer Machines to Remote Exploits

Critical Vulnerability in Anthropic’s MCP Exposes Developer Machines to Remote Exploits

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security vulnerability in artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Inspector project that could result in remote code execution (RCE) and allow an attacker to gain complete… 

TA829 and UNK_GreenSec Share Tactics and Infrastructure in Ongoing Malware Campaigns

TA829 and UNK_GreenSec Share Tactics and Infrastructure in Ongoing Malware Campaigns

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged the tactical similarities between the threat actors behind the RomCom RAT and a cluster that has been observed delivering a loader dubbed TransferLoader. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint is tracking the activity… 

New Flaw in IDEs Like Visual Studio Code Lets Malicious Extensions Bypass Verified Status

New Flaw in IDEs Like Visual Studio Code Lets Malicious Extensions Bypass Verified Status

Jul 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananDeveloper Security / Software Development A new study of integrated development environments (IDEs) like Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor has revealed weaknesses in how they handle the… 

Google Patches Critical Zero-Day Flaw in Chrome’s V8 Engine After Active Exploitation

Google Patches Critical Zero-Day Flaw in Chrome’s V8 Engine After Active Exploitation

Jul 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Browser Security Google has released security updates to address a vulnerability in its Chrome browser for which an exploit exists in the wild. The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6554 (CVSS… 

U.S. Arrests Key Facilitator in North Korean IT Worker Scheme, Seizes .74 Million

U.S. Arrests Key Facilitator in North Korean IT Worker Scheme, Seizes $7.74 Million

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday announced sweeping actions targeting the North Korean information technology (IT) worker scheme, leading to the arrest of one individual and the seizure of 29 financial accounts, 21… 

Microsoft Removes Password Management from Authenticator App Starting August 2025

Microsoft Removes Password Management from Authenticator App Starting August 2025

Jul 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Privacy Microsoft has said that it’s ending support for passwords in its Authenticator app starting August 1, 2025. The changes, the company said, are part of its efforts to… 

U.S. Agencies Warn of Rising Iranian Cyberattacks on Defense, OT Networks, and Critical Infrastructure

U.S. Agencies Warn of Rising Iranian Cyberattacks on Defense, OT Networks, and Critical Infrastructure

Jun 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Critical Infrastructure U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have issued a joint advisory warning of potential cyber-attacks from Iranian state-sponsored or affiliated threat actors. “Over the past several months, there…