Why You Should Swap Passwords for Passphrases
Oct 22, 2025The Hacker NewsData Breach / Enterprise Security The advice didn’t change for decades: use complex passwords with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. The…
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Researchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware
Oct 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Network Security Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a…
TARmageddon Flaw in Async-Tar Rust Library Could Enable Remote Code Execution
Oct 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Protection Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a high-severity flaw impacting the popular async-tar Rust library and its forks,…
TP-Link Patches Four Omada Gateway Flaws, Two Allow Remote Code Execution
Oct 22, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security TP-Link has released security updates to address four security flaws impacting Omada gateway devices, including two critical bugs…
PolarEdge Targets Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, Synology Routers in Expanding Botnet Campaign
Oct 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of a botnet malware called PolarEdge. PolarEdge was first documented…
Meta Rolls Out New Tools to Protect WhatsApp and Messenger Users from Scams
Oct 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Encryption Meta on Tuesday said it’s launching new tools to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. To that…
Securing AI to Benefit from AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise for improving cyber defense and making the lives of security practitioners easier. It can help teams cut through alert…
Hackers Used Snappybee Malware and Citrix Flaw to Breach European Telecom Network
Oct 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Network Security A European telecommunications organization is said to have been targeted by a threat actor that aligns with…
Google Identifies Three New Russian Malware Families Created by COLDRIVER Hackers
Oct 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Threat Intelligence A new malware attributed to the Russia-linked hacking group known as COLDRIVER has undergone numerous developmental iterations…
Five New Exploited Bugs Land in CISA’s Catalog — Oracle and Microsoft Among Targets
Oct 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Data Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws to its Known…
131 Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking WhatsApp Web for Massive Spam Campaign
Oct 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a coordinated campaign that leveraged 131 rebranded clones of a WhatsApp Web automation extension…
3 Reasons Why Copy/Paste Attacks Are Driving Security Breaches
ClickFix, FileFix, fake CAPTCHA — whatever you call it, attacks where users interact with malicious scripts in their web browser are a fast-growing source of…