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Five U.S. Citizens Plead Guilty to Helping North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate 136 Companies
15
Nov
2025

Five U.S. Citizens Plead Guilty to Helping North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate 136 Companies

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday announced that five individuals have pleaded guilty to assisting North Korea’s illicit…

Malware Delivery Channels
14
Nov
2025

North Korean Hackers Turn JSON Services into Covert Malware Delivery Channels

Nov 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again…

Iranian Hackers Launch 'SpearSpecter' Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets
14
Nov
2025

Iranian Hackers Launch ‘SpearSpecter’ Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to…

Researchers Find Serious AI Bugs Exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft Inference Frameworks
14
Nov
2025

Researchers Find Serious AI Bugs Exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft Inference Frameworks

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including those from Meta,…

Ransomware's Fragmentation Reaches a Breaking Point While LockBit Returns
14
Nov
2025

Ransomware’s Fragmentation Reaches a Breaking Point While LockBit Returns

Key Takeaways: 85 active ransomware and extortion groups observed in Q3 2025, reflecting the most decentralized ransomware ecosystem to date….

Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign
14
Nov
2025

Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic’s AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign

State-sponsored threat actors from China used artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by Anthropic to orchestrate automated cyber attacks as part…

Fortinet FortiWeb Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild Before Company's Silent Patch
14
Nov
2025

Fortinet FortiWeb Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild Before Company’s Silent Patch

Nov 14, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alert about an authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet…

Russian Hackers Create 4,300 Fake Travel Sites to Steal Hotel Guests' Payment Data
14
Nov
2025

Russian Hackers Create 4,300 Fake Travel Sites to Steal Hotel Guests’ Payment Data

A Russian-speaking threat behind an ongoing, mass phishing campaign has registered more than 4,300 domain names since the start of…

Fake Chrome Extension "Safery" Steals Ethereum Wallet Seed Phrases Using Sui Blockchain
13
Nov
2025

Fake Chrome Extension “Safery” Steals Ethereum Wallet Seed Phrases Using Sui Blockchain

Nov 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a malicious Chrome extension that poses as a…

Operation Endgame Dismantles Rhadamanthys, Venom RAT, and Elysium Botnet in Global Crackdown
13
Nov
2025

Operation Endgame Dismantles Rhadamanthys, Venom RAT, and Elysium Botnet in Global Crackdown

Nov 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananBotnet / Cybercrime Malware families like Rhadamanthys Stealer, Venom RAT, and the Elysium botnet have been disrupted…

Why 2026 Will be the Year of Machine-Speed Security
13
Nov
2025

Why 2026 Will be the Year of Machine-Speed Security

The Race for Every New CVE Based on multiple 2025 industry reports: roughly 50 to 61 percent of newly disclosed…

CISA Flags Critical WatchGuard Fireware Flaw Exposing 54,000 Fireboxes to No-Login Attacks
13
Nov
2025

CISA Flags Critical WatchGuard Fireware Flaw Exposing 54,000 Fireboxes to No-Login Attacks

Nov 13, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical…