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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…
MSS Claims NSA Used 42 Cyber Tools in Multi-Stage Attack on Beijing Time Systems
Oct 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / National Security China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of carrying out a “premeditated” cyber attack…
Europol Dismantles SIM Farm Network Powering 49 Million Fake Accounts Worldwide
Oct 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananSIM Swapping / Cryptocurrency Europol on Friday announced the disruption of a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that operated a SIM farm and…
New .NET CAPI Backdoor Targets Russian Auto and E-Commerce Firms via Phishing ZIPs
Oct 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign that has likely targeted the Russian automobile and e-commerce…
Silver Fox Expands Winos 4.0 Attacks to Japan and Malaysia via HoldingHands RAT
The threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 (aka ValleyRAT) have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target Japan…
North Korean Hackers Combine BeaverTail and OtterCookie into Advanced JS Malware
The North Korean threat actor linked to the Contagious Interview campaign has been observed merging some of the functionality of two of its malware programs,…
Your First and Last Line of Defense
Oct 17, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Identity Security The danger isn’t that AI agents have bad days — it’s that they never do. They…