Google Fined $379 Million by French Regulator for Cookie Consent Violations
Sep 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananGDPR / Data Privacy The French data protection authority has fined Google and Chinese e-commerce giant Shein $379 million (€325 million) and…
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Cybercriminals Exploit X’s Grok AI to Bypass Ad Protections and Spread Malware to Millions
Sep 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new technique that cybercriminals have adopted to bypass social media platform X’s malvertising…
Malicious npm Packages Exploit Ethereum Smart Contracts to Target Crypto Developers
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Social Engineering Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new malicious packages on the npm registry that make use of smart contracts…
Google Patches 120 Flaws, Including Two Zero-Days Under Attack
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Vulnerability Google has shipped security updates to address 120 security flaws in its Android operating system as part of…
Detecting Data Leaks Before Disaster
In January 2025, cybersecurity experts at Wiz Research found that Chinese AI specialist DeepSeek had suffered a data leak, putting more than 1 million sensitive…
Threat Actors Weaponize HexStrike AI to Exploit Citrix Flaws Within a Week of Disclosure
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Threat actors are attempting to leverage a newly released artificial intelligence (AI) offensive security tool called HexStrike AI…
Iranian Hackers Exploit 100+ Embassy Email Accounts in Global Phishing Targeting Diplomats
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cyber Espionage An Iran-nexus group has been linked to a “coordinated” and “multi-wave” spear-phishing campaign targeting the embassies and…
Cloudflare Blocks Record-Breaking 11.5 Tbps DDoS Attack
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Network Security Cloudflare on Tuesday said it automatically mitigated a record-setting volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at…
CISA Adds TP-Link and WhatsApp Flaws to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Mobile Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a high-severity security flaw impacting TP-Link TL-WA855RE…
Salesloft Takes Drift Offline After OAuth Token Theft Hits Hundreds of Organizations
Sep 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Threat Intelligence, Salesloft on Tuesday announced that it’s taking Drift temporarily offline “in the very near future,” as multiple…
Lazarus Group Expands Malware Arsenal With PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT, and RemotePE
Sep 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence The North Korea-linked threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been attributed to a social engineering campaign…
Researchers Warn of MystRodX Backdoor Using DNS and ICMP Triggers for Stealthy Control
Sep 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a stealthy new backdoor called MystRodX that comes with a variety of features…