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ShadowV2 Botnet Exploits Misconfigured AWS Docker Containers for DDoS-for-Hire Service
23
Sep
2025

ShadowV2 Botnet Exploits Misconfigured AWS Docker Containers for DDoS-for-Hire Service

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet that customers can rent access to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks…

SolarWinds Releases Hotfix for Critical CVE-2025-26399 Remote Code Execution Flaw
23
Sep
2025

SolarWinds Releases Hotfix for Critical CVE-2025-26399 Remote Code Execution Flaw

Sep 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Security SolarWinds has released hot fixes to address a critical security flaw impacting its…

CISO
23
Sep
2025

Why CISOs Must Rethink Incident Remediation

Big companies are getting smaller, and their CEOs want everyone to know it. Wells Fargo has cut its workforce by…

GitHub Mandates 2FA and Short-Lived Tokens to Strengthen npm Supply Chain Security
23
Sep
2025

GitHub Mandates 2FA and Short-Lived Tokens to Strengthen npm Supply Chain Security

Sep 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain Attack / Malware GitHub on Monday announced that it will be changing its authentication and…

BadIIS Malware
23
Sep
2025

BadIIS Malware Spreads via SEO Poisoning — Redirects Traffic, Plants Web Shells

Sep 23, 2025Ravie LakshmananSEO Poisoning / Malware Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign…

ComicForm and SectorJ149 Hackers Deploy Formbook Malware in Eurasian Cyberattacks
22
Sep
2025

ComicForm and SectorJ149 Hackers Deploy Formbook Malware in Eurasian Cyberattacks

Organizations in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia have emerged as the target of a phishing campaign undertaken by a previously undocumented…

AI Agents and Non-Human Identities
22
Sep
2025

How to Gain Control of AI Agents and Non-Human Identities

We hear this a lot: “We’ve got hundreds of service accounts and AI agents running in the background. We didn’t…

Microsoft Patches Critical Entra ID Flaw Enabling Global Admin Impersonation Across Tenants
22
Sep
2025

Microsoft Patches Critical Entra ID Flaw Enabling Global Admin Impersonation Across Tenants

A critical token validation failure in Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure Active Directory) could have allowed attackers to impersonate any…

DPRK Hackers Use ClickFix to Deliver BeaverTail Malware in Crypto Job Scams
21
Sep
2025

DPRK Hackers Use ClickFix to Deliver BeaverTail Malware in Crypto Job Scams

Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed leveraging…

LastPass Warns of Fake Repositories Infecting macOS with Atomic Infostealer
20
Sep
2025

LastPass Warns of Fake Repositories Infecting macOS with Atomic Infostealer

Sep 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Malware LastPass is warning of an ongoing, widespread information stealer campaign targeting Apple macOS…

ShadowLeak Zero-Click Flaw Leaks Gmail Data via OpenAI ChatGPT Deep Research Agent
20
Sep
2025

ShadowLeak Zero-Click Flaw Leaks Gmail Data via OpenAI ChatGPT Deep Research Agent

Sep 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a zero-click flaw in OpenAI ChatGPT’s Deep Research…

Researchers Uncover GPT-4-Powered MalTerminal Malware Creating Ransomware, Reverse Shell
20
Sep
2025

Researchers Uncover GPT-4-Powered MalTerminal Malware Creating Ransomware, Reverse Shell

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the earliest example known to date of a malware with that bakes…