Category: TheHackerNews

Breaches Hidden, Attack Surfaces Growing, and AI Misperceptions Rising
01
Oct
2025

Breaches Hidden, Attack Surfaces Growing, and AI Misperceptions Rising

Oct 01, 2025The Hacker NewsAttack Surface / Artificial Intelligence Bitdefender’s 2025 Cybersecurity Assessment Report paints a sobering picture of today’s…

Hackers Exploit Milesight Routers to Send Phishing SMS to European Users
01
Oct
2025

Hackers Exploit Milesight Routers to Send Phishing SMS to European Users

Oct 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Malware Unknown threat actors are abusing Milesight industrial cellular routers to send SMS messages as…

Android Banking Trojan
01
Oct
2025

New Android Banking Trojan “Klopatra” Uses Hidden VNC to Control Infected Smartphones

A previously undocumented Android banking trojan called Klopatra has compromised over 3,000 devices, with a majority of the infections reported…

Ukraine Warns of CABINETRAT Backdoor + XLL Add-ins Spread via Signal ZIPs
01
Oct
2025

Ukraine Warns of CABINETRAT Backdoor + XLL Add-ins Spread via Signal ZIPs

Oct 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Incident Response The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of new targeted…

$50 Battering RAM Attack Breaks Intel and AMD Cloud Security Protections
30
Sep
2025

$50 Battering RAM Attack Breaks Intel and AMD Cloud Security Protections

A group of academics from KU Leuven and the University of Birmingham has demonstrated a new vulnerability called Battering RAM…

China-Linked Hacker Group
30
Sep
2025

New China-Linked Hacker Group Hits Governments With Stealth Malware

Sep 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Government and telecommunications organizations across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have emerged…

VMware Zero-Day
30
Sep
2025

China-Linked Hackers Exploit New VMware Zero-Day Since October 2024

Sep 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Vulnerability A newly patched security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware Tools and VMware Aria Operations has…

Context Is the Key to Effective Incident Response
30
Sep
2025

Context Is the Key to Effective Incident Response

Sep 30, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Threat Detection The Problem: Legacy SOCs and Endless Alert Noise Every SOC leader…

Microsoft Expands Sentinel Into Agentic Security Platform With Unified Data Lake
30
Sep
2025

Microsoft Expands Sentinel Into Agentic Security Platform With Unified Data Lake

Sep 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Threat Detection Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled the expansion of its Sentinel Security Incidents and…

Google Gemini AI Flaws
30
Sep
2025

Researchers Disclose Google Gemini AI Flaws Allowing Prompt Injection and Cloud Exploits

Sep 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three now-patched security vulnerabilities impacting Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence…

£5.5 Billion in Bitcoin
30
Sep
2025

U.K. Police Just Seized £5.5 Billion in Bitcoin — The World’s Largest Crypto Bust

A Chinese national has been convicted for her role in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme after law enforcement authorities in the…

New Android Trojan "Datzbro" Tricking Elderly with AI-Generated Facebook Travel Events
30
Sep
2025

New Android Trojan “Datzbro” Tricking Elderly with AI-Generated Facebook Travel Events

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Android banking trojan called Datzbro that can conduct device takeover (DTO) attacks and…