Category: TheHackerNews

BeyondTrust Zero-Day Breach
01
Feb
2025

BeyondTrust Zero-Day Breach Exposed 17 SaaS Customers via Compromised API Key

Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Zero-Day BeyondTrust has revealed it completed an investigation into a recent cybersecurity incident that targeted…

Zero-Click WhatsApp Spyware Attack
01
Feb
2025

Meta Confirms Zero-Click WhatsApp Spyware Attack Targeting 90 Journalists, Activists

Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Surveillance Meta-owned WhatsApp on Friday said it disrupted a campaign that involved the use of…

Malvertising Scam
01
Feb
2025

Malvertising Scam Uses Fake Google Ads to Hijack Microsoft Advertising Accounts

Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalvertising / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malvertising campaign that’s targeting Microsoft advertisers with bogus…

Critical Backdoor in Contec
31
Jan
2025

CISA and FDA Warn of Critical Backdoor in Contec CMS8000 Patient Monitors

Jan 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Healthcare The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration…

Google Bans 158,000 Malicious Android App Developer Accounts in 2024
31
Jan
2025

Google Bans 158,000 Malicious Android App Developer Accounts in 2024

Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in…

Chinese DeepSeek AI
31
Jan
2025

Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy and Ethical Concerns

Italy’s data protection watchdog has blocked Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) firm DeepSeek’s service within the country, citing a lack of…

Social Engineering Attacks
31
Jan
2025

Top 5 AI-Powered Social Engineering Attacks

Social engineering has long been an effective tactic because of how it focuses on human vulnerabilities. There’s no brute-force ‘spray…

VMware Aria Flaws
31
Jan
2025

Broadcom Patches VMware Aria Flaws – Exploits May Lead to Credential Theft

Jan 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Security Broadcom has released security updates to patch five security flaws impacting VMware Aria…

AI for Cyber Operations
30
Jan
2025

Over 57 Nation-State Threat Groups Using AI for Cyber Operations

Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence…

Lightning AI Studio Vulnerability
30
Jan
2025

Lightning AI Studio Vulnerability Allowed RCE via Hidden URL Parameter

Jan 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Lightning AI Studio…

Hacking Forum
30
Jan
2025

Authorities Seize Domains of Popular Hacking Forums in Major Cybercrime Crackdown

Jan 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananOnline Fraud / Cybercrime An international law enforcement operation has dismantled the domains associated with various online…

DeepSeek AI Database
30
Jan
2025

Over 1 Million Log Lines, Secret Keys Leaked

Jan 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Data Privacy Buzzy Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, which has had a meteoric…