Europol Arrests Five SmokeLoader Clients Linked by Seized Database Evidence
Law enforcement authorities have announced that they tracked down the customers of the SmokeLoader malware and detained at least five individuals. “In a coordinated series…
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AkiraBot Targets 420,000 Sites with OpenAI-Generated Spam, Bypassing CAPTCHA Protections
Apr 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananWebsite Security / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform called AkiraBot that’s used to spam…
Lovable AI Found Most Vulnerable to VibeScamming — Enabling Anyone to Build Live Scam Pages
Lovable, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered platform that allows for creating full-stack web applications using text-based prompts, has been found to be the most…
New TCESB Malware Found in Active Attacks Exploiting ESET Security Scanner
Apr 09, 2025Ravie LakshmananWindows Security / Vulnerability A Chinese-affiliated threat actor known for its cyber-attacks in Asia has been observed exploiting a security flaw in…
Explosive Growth of Non-Human Identities Creating Massive Security Blind Spots
Apr 09, 2025The Hacker NewsSecrets Management / DevOps GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl report for 2025 reveals the alarming scale of secrets exposure in modern…
CISA Warns of CentreStack’s Hard-Coded MachineKey Vulnerability Enabling RCE Attacks
Apr 09, 2025Ravie LakshmananApplication Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting Gladinet CentreStack…
PipeMagic Trojan Exploits Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability to Deploy Ransomware
Apr 09, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Ransomware Microsoft has revealed that a now-patched security flaw impacting the Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) was exploited as…
Microsoft Patches 126 Flaws Including Actively Exploited Windows CLFS Vulnerability
Apr 09, 2025Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Vulnerability Microsoft has released security fixes to address a massive set of 126 flaws affecting its software products, including…
Adobe Patches 11 Critical ColdFusion Flaws Amid 30 Total Vulnerabilities Discovered
Apr 09, 2025Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Vulnerability Adobe has released security updates to fix a fresh set of security flaws, including multiple critical-severity bugs in…
Cryptocurrency Miner and Clipper Malware Spread via SourceForge Cracked Software Listings
Threat actors have been observed distributing malicious payloads such as cryptocurrency miner and clipper malware via SourceForge, a popular software hosting service, under the guise…
Fortinet Urges FortiSwitch Upgrades to Patch Critical Admin Password Change Flaw
Apr 08, 2025Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability Fortinet has released security updates to address a critical security flaw impacting FortiSwitch that could permit an attacker…
Amazon EC2 SSM Agent Flaw Patched After Privilege Escalation via Path Traversal
Apr 08, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw in the Amazon EC2 Simple Systems Manager (SSM)…