Eclipse Foundation Revokes Leaked Open VSX Tokens Following Wiz Discovery
Oct 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Secure Coding Eclipse Foundation, which maintains the open-source Open VSX project, said it has taken steps to revoke a small…
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CISA Flags VMware Zero-Day Exploited by China-Linked Hackers in Active Attacks
Oct 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cyber Attack The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a high-severity security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware…
A New Security Layer for macOS Takes Aim at Admin Errors Before Hackers Do
Oct 31, 2025The Hacker NewsEndpoint Security / Network Security A design firm is editing a new campaign video on a MacBook Pro. The creative director…
Russian Ransomware Gangs Weaponize Open-Source AdaptixC2 for Advanced Attacks
Oct 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cybercrime The open-source command-and-control (C2) framework known as AdaptixC2 is being used by a growing number of threat actors, some…
Google’s Built-In AI Defenses on Android Now Block 10 Billion Scam Messages a Month
Google on Thursday revealed that the scam defenses built into Android safeguard users around the world from more than 10 billion suspected malicious calls and…
New “Brash” Exploit Crashes Chromium Browsers Instantly with a Single Malicious URL
Oct 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Vulnerability A severe vulnerability disclosed in Chromium’s Blink rendering engine can be exploited to crash many Chromium-based browsers within…
BAS Is the Power Behind Real Defense
Security doesn’t fail at the point of breach. It fails at the point of impact. That line set the tone for this year’s Picus Breach…
PhantomRaven Malware Found in 126 npm Packages Stealing GitHub Tokens From Devs
Oct 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananDevSecOps / Software Security Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered yet another active software supply chain attack campaign targeting the npm registry with over…
Russian Hackers Target Ukrainian Organizations Using Stealthy Living-Off-the-Land Tactics
Organizations in Ukraine have been targeted by threat actors of Russian origin with an aim to siphon sensitive data and maintain persistent access to compromised…
Ghost Identities, Poisoned Accounts, & AI Agent Havoc
BeyondTrust’s annual cybersecurity predictions point to a year where old defenses will fail quietly, and new attack vectors will surge. Introduction The next major breach…
New AI-Targeted Cloaking Attack Tricks AI Crawlers Into Citing Fake Info as Verified Facts
Oct 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananMachine Learning / AI Safety Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new security issue in agentic web browsers like OpenAI ChatGPT Atlas that…
Experts Reports Sharp Increase in Automated Botnet Attacks Targeting PHP Servers and IoT Devices
Oct 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Internet of Things Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a spike in automated attacks targeting PHP servers, IoT devices, and…