Category: TheHackerNews

Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years, $13M Restitution for SIM Swapping Crypto Theft
21
Aug
2025

Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years, $13M Restitution for SIM Swapping Crypto Theft

Aug 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Cybercrime A 20-year-old member of the notorious cybercrime gang known as Scattered Spider has…

Apple Patches CVE-2025-43300 Zero-Day in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Exploited in Targeted Attacks
21
Aug
2025

Apple Patches CVE-2025-43300 Zero-Day in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Aug 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Zero-Day Apple has released security updates to address a security flaw impacting iOS, iPadOS, and…

FBI Warns FSB-Linked Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Cisco Devices for Cyber Espionage
20
Aug
2025

FBI Warns FSB-Linked Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Cisco Devices for Cyber Espionage

Aug 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Vulnerability A Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Static Tundra has been observed…

DOM-Based Extension Clickjacking Exposes Popular Password Managers to Credential and Data Theft
20
Aug
2025

DOM-Based Extension Clickjacking Exposes Popular Password Managers to Credential and Data Theft

Aug 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Browser Security Popular password manager plugins for web browsers have been found susceptible to clickjacking…

Comet AI Browser
20
Aug
2025

Experts Find AI Browsers Can Be Tricked by PromptFix Exploit to Run Malicious Hidden Prompts

Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new prompt injection technique called PromptFix that tricks a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model into…

20
Aug
2025

Experts Find AI Browsers Can Be Tricked by PromptFix Exploit to Run Malicious Hidden Prompts

Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new prompt injection technique called PromptFix that tricks a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model into…

20
Aug
2025

Experts Find AI Browsers Can Be Tricked by PromptFix Exploit to Run Malicious Hidden Prompts

Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new prompt injection technique called PromptFix that tricks a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model into…

Discover and Control Shadow AI Agents in Your Enterprise Before Hackers Do
20
Aug
2025

Discover and Control Shadow AI Agents in Your Enterprise Before Hackers Do

Aug 20, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Enterprise Security Do you know how many AI agents are running inside your…

Turning BIA Insights Into Resilient Recovery
20
Aug
2025

Turning BIA Insights Into Resilient Recovery

Modern businesses face a rapidly evolving and expanding threat landscape, but what does this mean for your business? It means…

North Korea Uses GitHub in Diplomat Cyber Attacks as IT Worker Scheme Hits 320+ Firms
20
Aug
2025

North Korea Uses GitHub in Diplomat Cyber Attacks as IT Worker Scheme Hits 320+ Firms

North Korean threat actors have been attributed to a coordinated cyber espionage campaign targeting diplomatic missions in their southern counterpart…

RapperBot Botnet
20
Aug
2025

DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks

Aug 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Cybercrime A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly…

Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited to Deploy DripDropper Malware on Cloud Linux Systems
19
Aug
2025

Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Exploited to Deploy DripDropper Malware on Cloud Linux Systems

Aug 19, 2025Ravie LakshmananLinux / Malware Threat actors are exploiting a nearly two-year-old security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to gain…