Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that’s leveraging a combination of ClickFix lures and fake adult websites to deceive users into running malicious commands under the guise of a “critical” Windows security…
Nov 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been observed adopting new methods to obtain access to corporate email data belonging to target companies, including using a custom tool dubbed…
2026 will mark a pivotal shift in cybersecurity. Threat actors are moving from experimenting with AI to making it their primary weapon, using it to scale attacks, automate reconnaissance, and craft hyper-realistic social engineering campaigns.…
Nov 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that has leveraged Blender Foundation files to deliver an information stealer known as StealC V2. “This ongoing operation, active…
Nov 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananSpyware / Mobile Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday issued an alert warning of bad actors actively leveraging commercial spyware and remote access trojans (RATs) to target…
Nov 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Container Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open-source and lightweight telemetry agent, that could be chained to compromise and take over cloud infrastructures. The security…
Nov 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Multiple security vendors are sounding the alarm about a second wave of attacks targeting the npm registry in a manner that’s reminiscent of the Shai-Hulud attack. The new…
Nov 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Hacking News This week saw a lot of new cyber trouble. Hackers hit Fortinet and Chrome with new 0-day bugs. They also broke into supply chains and SaaS tools. Many…
New research from CrowdStrike has revealed that DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence (AI) reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 produces more security vulnerabilities in response to prompts that contain topics deemed politically sensitive by China. “We found that when DeepSeek-R1…
Nov 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability A recently patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has been exploited by threat actors to distribute malware known as ShadowPad. “The attacker targeted Windows Servers…