Deepfake Defense in the Age of AI
May 13, 2025The Hacker NewsAI Security / Zero Trust The cybersecurity landscape has been dramatically reshaped by the advent of generative AI. Attackers now leverage…
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Moldovan Police Arrest Suspect in €4.5M Ransomware Attack on Dutch Research Agency
May 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Ransomware Moldovan law enforcement authorities have arrested a 45-year-old foreign man suspected of involvement in a series of ransomware attacks…
Türkiye Hackers Exploited Output Messenger Zero-Day to Drop Golang Backdoors on Kurdish Servers
May 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Vulnerability A Türkiye-affiliated threat actor exploited a zero-day security flaw in an Indian enterprise communication platform called Output Messenger as…
ASUS Patches DriverHub RCE Flaws Exploitable via HTTP and Crafted .ini Files
May 12, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Endpoint Security ASUS has released updates to address two security flaws impacting ASUS DriverHub that, if successfully exploited, could enable…
Why Exposed Credentials Remain Unfixed—and How to Change That
Detecting leaked credentials is only half the battle. The real challenge—and often the neglected half of the equation—is what happens after detection. New research from…
Fake AI Tools Used to Spread Noodlophile Malware, Targeting 62,000+ via Facebook Lures
May 12, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Artificial Intelligence Threat actors have been observed leveraging fake artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools as a lure to entice users into…
Germany Shuts Down eXch Over $1.9B Laundering, Seizes €34M in Crypto and 8TB of Data
May 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Cybercrime Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (aka Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) has seized the online infrastructure and shutdown linked to the…
Google Pays $1.375 Billion to Texas Over Unauthorized Tracking and Biometric Data Collection
May 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananBiometric Data / Privacy Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that…
OtterCookie v4 Adds VM Detection and Chrome, MetaMask Credential Theft Capabilities
The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using updated versions of a cross-platform malware called OtterCookie with capabilities to…
BREAKING: 7,000-Device Proxy Botnet Using IoT, EoL Systems Dismantled in U.S.
A joint law enforcement operation undertaken by Dutch and U.S. authorities has dismantled a criminal proxy network that’s powered by thousands of infected Internet of…
Malicious npm Packages Infect 3,200+ Cursor Users With Backdoor, Steal Credentials
May 09, 2025Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have flagged three malicious npm packages that are designed to target the Apple macOS version…
Deploying AI Agents? Learn to Secure Them Before Hackers Strike Your Business
May 09, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Software Security AI agents are changing the way businesses work. They can answer questions, automate tasks, and create…