Category: TheHackerNews

Data Leak Exposes TopSec's Role in China's Censorship-as-a-Service Operations
21
Feb
2025

Data Leak Exposes TopSec’s Role in China’s Censorship-as-a-Service Operations

Feb 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananSurveillance / Content Monitoring An analysis of a data leak from a Chinese cybersecurity company TopSec has…

Apple Drops iCloud's Advanced Data Protection in the U.K. Amid Encryption Backdoor Demands
21
Feb
2025

Apple Drops iCloud’s Advanced Data Protection in the U.K. Amid Encryption Backdoor Demands

Feb 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Protection / Encryption Apple is removing its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature for iCloud from the…

Darcula PhaaS v3
21
Feb
2025

Cybercriminals Can Now Clone Any Brand’s Site in Minutes Using Darcula PhaaS v3

Feb 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananDark Web / Cybercrime The threat actors behind the Darcula phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform appear to be readying…

Learn How to Identify High-Risk Identity Gaps and Slash Security Debt in 2025
21
Feb
2025

Learn How to Identify High-Risk Identity Gaps and Slash Security Debt in 2025

Feb 21, 2025The Hacker NewsIdentity Security / Threat Prevention In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, weak identity security isn’t just…

AI-Powered Deception is a Menace to Our Societies
21
Feb
2025

AI-Powered Deception is a Menace to Our Societies

Wherever there’s been conflict in the world, propaganda has never been far away. Travel back in time to 515 BC…

Craft CMS Vulnerability
21
Feb
2025

CISA Flags Craft CMS Vulnerability CVE-2025-23209 Amid Active Attacks

Feb 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananWeb Security / Vulnerability A high-severity security flaw impacting the Craft content management system (CMS) has been…

Cisco Confirms Salt Typhoon Exploited CVE-2018-0171 to Target U.S. Telecom Networks
21
Feb
2025

Cisco Confirms Salt Typhoon Exploited CVE-2018-0171 to Target U.S. Telecom Networks

Feb 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability Cisco has confirmed that a Chinese threat actor known as Salt Typhoon gained…

North Korean Hackers Target Freelance Developers in Job Scam to Deploy Malware
20
Feb
2025

North Korean Hackers Target Freelance Developers in Job Scam to Deploy Malware

Freelance software developers are the target of an ongoing campaign that leverages job interview-themed lures to deliver cross-platform malware families…

Malware via ZIP Archives
20
Feb
2025

Cybercriminals Use Eclipse Jarsigner to Deploy XLoader Malware via ZIP Archives

Feb 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Malware A malware campaign distributing the XLoader malware has been observed using the DLL side-loading…

PCI DSS 4.0 Mandates DMARC By 31st March 2025
20
Feb
2025

PCI DSS 4.0 Mandates DMARC By 31st March 2025

The payment card industry has set a critical deadline for businesses handling cardholder data or processing payments- by March 31,…

ShadowPad and Ransomware
20
Feb
2025

Chinese-Linked Attackers Exploit Check Point Flaw to Deploy ShadowPad and Ransomware

Feb 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Vulnerability A previously unknown threat activity cluster targeted European organizations, particularly those in the healthcare…

What IT Teams Must Do Now
20
Feb
2025

What IT Teams Must Do Now

For decades, Microsoft Exchange has been the backbone of business communications, powering emailing, scheduling and collaboration for organizations worldwide. Whether…