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North Korea Uses GitHub in Diplomat Cyber Attacks as IT Worker Scheme Hits 320+ Firms
North Korean threat actors have been attributed to a coordinated cyber espionage campaign targeting diplomatic missions in their southern counterpart between March and July 2025.…
DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks
Aug 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Cybercrime A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly developing and overseeing a distributed…
Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited to Deploy DripDropper Malware on Cloud Linux Systems
Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananLinux / Malware Threat actors are exploiting a nearly two-year-old security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to gain persistent access to cloud Linux…
New GodRAT Trojan Targets Trading Firms Using Steganography and Gh0st RAT Code
Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Attack Financial institutions like trading and brokerage firms are the target of a new campaign that delivers a previously…
Public Exploit for Chained SAP Flaws Exposes Unpatched Systems to Remote Code Execution
Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cyber Espionage A new exploit combining two critical, now-patched security flaws in SAP NetWeaver has emerged in the wild, putting…
Why Your Security Culture is Critical to Mitigating Cyber Risk
After two decades of developing increasingly mature security architectures, organizations are running up against a hard truth: tools and technologies alone are not enough to…
U.K. Government Drops Apple Encryption Backdoor Order After U.S. Civil Liberties Pushback
Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananEncryption / Cloud Security The U.K. government has apparently abandoned its plans to force Apple to weaken encryption protections and include a…
PyPI Blocks 1,800 Expired-Domain Emails to Prevent Account Takeovers and Supply Chain Attacks
Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain Security The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository have announced that the package manager now checks for expired…
Noodlophile Malware Campaign Expands Global Reach with Copyright Phishing Lures
Aug 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Enterprise Security The threat actors behind the Noodlophile malware are leveraging spear-phishing emails and updated delivery mechanisms to deploy the…
Microsoft Windows Vulnerability Exploited to Deploy PipeMagic RansomExx Malware
Aug 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on the threat actors’ exploitation of a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft…
Malicious PyPI and npm Packages Discovered Exploiting Dependencies in Supply Chain Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that introduces malicious behavior through a dependency that allows it to…