Nov 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Vulnerability A now-patched security flaw in Samsung Galaxy Android devices was exploited as a zero-day to deliver a “commercial-grade” Android spyware dubbed LANDFALL in targeted attacks in the Middle…
A China-linked threat actor has been attributed to a cyber attack targeting an U.S. non-profit organization with an aim to establish long-term persistence, as part of broader activity aimed at U.S. entities that are linked…
Nov 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain Attack / Malware A set of nine malicious NuGet packages has been identified as capable of dropping time-delayed payloads to sabotage database operations and corrupt industrial control systems. According to…
Nov 07, 2025The Hacker NewsData Protection / Cloud Security Imagine this: Sarah from accounting gets what looks like a routine password reset email from your organization’s cloud provider. She clicks the link, types in her…
Nov 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Protection / Malware Google on Thursday said it’s rolling out a dedicated form to allow businesses listed on Google Maps to report extortion attempts made by threat actors who post inauthentic…
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic ransomware capabilities that appears to be created with the help of artificial intelligence – in other words, vibe-coded. Secure Annex researcher…
Nov 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability A previously unknown threat activity cluster has been observed impersonating Slovak cybersecurity company ESET as part of phishing attacks targeting Ukrainian entities. The campaign, detected in May 2025, is…
Nov 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Vulnerability Cisco on Wednesday disclosed that it became aware of a new attack variant that’s designed to target devices running Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco…
Introduction Financial institutions are facing a new reality: cyber-resilience has passed from being a best practice, to an operational necessity, to a prescriptive regulatory requirement. Crisis management or Tabletop exercises, for a long time relatively…
Nov 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News Cybercrime has stopped being a problem of just the internet — it’s becoming a problem of the real world. Online scams now fund organized crime, hackers rent violence…