Google Releases Critical Chrome Update for CVE-2025-6558 Exploit Active in the Wild
Jul 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Zero-Day Google on Tuesday rolled out fixes for six security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one that…
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New Konfety Malware Variant Evades Detection by Manipulating APKs and Dynamic Code
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated variant of a known Android malware referred to as Konfety that leverages the evil twin technique to enable…
New Konfety Malware Variant Evades Detection by Manipulating APKs and Dynamic Code
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated variant of a known Android malware referred to as Konfety that leverages the evil twin technique to enable…
Google AI “Big Sleep” Stops Exploitation of Critical SQLite Vulnerability Before Hackers Act
Jul 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Vulnerability Google on Tuesday revealed that its large language model (LLM)-assisted vulnerability discovery framework discovered a security flaw in…
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,…
Newly Emerged GLOBAL GROUP RaaS Expands Operations with AI-Driven Negotiation Tools
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation called GLOBAL GROUP that has targeted a wide range of sectors in Australia, Brazil,…
AsyncRAT’s Open-Source Code Sparks Surge in Dangerous Malware Variants Across the Globe
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of a widely used remote access trojan called AsyncRAT, which was first released on GitHub in January 2019 and…
How to Protect the Invisible Identity Access
Jul 15, 2025The Hacker NewsAutomation / Risk Management AI agents promise to automate everything from financial reconciliations to incident response. Yet every time an AI…
State-Backed HazyBeacon Malware Uses AWS Lambda to Steal Data from SE Asian Governments
Jul 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence Governmental organizations in Southeast Asia are the target of a new campaign that aims to collect sensitive…
North Korean Hackers Flood npm Registry with XORIndex Malware in Ongoing Attack Campaign
Jul 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Web Security The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing another set of…
New PHP-Based Interlock RAT Variant Uses FileFix Delivery Mechanism to Target Multiple Industries
Jul 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Web Security Threat actors behind the Interlock ransomware group have unleashed a new PHP variant of its bespoke remote access…
The Unusual Suspect: Git Repos
Jul 14, 2025The Hacker NewsSecrets Management / SaaS Security While phishing and ransomware dominate headlines, another critical risk quietly persists across most enterprises: exposed Git…