Current approaches to patching unsustainable, report says
Cyber security professionals tasked with vulnerability patch management and roll-out duties say they are struggling to effectively prioritise critical updates and tend to fall back…
Month: July 2025
North Korean XORIndex malware hidden in 67 malicious npm packages
North Korean threat actors planted 67 malicious packages in the Node Package Manager (npm) online repository to deliver a new malware loader called XORIndex to developer…
AsyncRAT New Forks Uncovered With New Features Ranging From Screamer to a USB Malware Spreader
A comprehensive analysis of AsyncRAT’s expanding ecosystem, revealing a labyrinthine network of malware variants that have evolved far beyond the original remote access trojan’s capabilities. …
Kafbat UI Vulnerabilities Allow Arbitrary Code Execution via JMX Services
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Kafbat UI, a popular web-based interface for managing Apache Kafka clusters, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary…
Attackers Hide JavaScript in SVG Images to Lure Users to Malicious Sites
A new form of cyberattack is on the rise, with hackers now using seemingly harmless Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) image files to sneak malicious code…
Hyper-Volumetric DDoS Attacks Reach Record 7.3 Tbps, Targeting Key Global Sectors
Jul 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Network Security Cloudflare on Tuesday said it mitigated 7.3 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the second quarter of 2025,…
MoD cyber breach put thousands of Afghan lives at risk
A serious data breach at the UK’s Ministry of Defence, revealed for the first time today after the lifting of a superinjunction preventing the media…
Android Malware Konfety evolves with ZIP manipulation and dynamic loading
Android Malware Konfety evolves with ZIP manipulation and dynamic loading Pierluigi Paganini July 15, 2025 A new Konfety Android malware variant uses a malformed ZIP…
DragonForce hackers claim responsibility for Belk data breach
DragonForce, a cyber criminal group connected to a series of attacks against retail firms in recent months, is claiming credit for an attack on the…
Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices
An international law enforcement action dismantled a Romanian ransomware gang known as ‘Diskstation,’ which encrypted the systems of several companies in the Lombardy region, paralyzing…
Hackers Breaking Internet with 7.3 Tbps and 4.8 Billion Packets Per Second DDoS Attack
The cybersecurity landscape has witnessed a paradigm shift in 2025, with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks reaching unprecedented levels of scale and sophistication. The…
Iranian Threat Actors Target U.S. Critical Infrastructure, Including Water Systems
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has increased its asymmetric cyber operations in response to recent U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites. Intelligence Group 13…