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GhostPoster Malware Found in 17 Firefox Add-ons with 50,000+ Downloads
Dec 17, 2025Ravie LakshmananAd Fraud / Browser Security A new campaign named GhostPoster has leveraged logo files associated with 17 Mozilla Firefox browser add-ons to…
Compromised IAM Credentials Power a Large AWS Crypto Mining Campaign
Dec 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Detection An ongoing campaign has been observed targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers using compromised Identity and Access Management…
Rogue NuGet Package Poses as Tracer.Fody, Steals Cryptocurrency Wallet Data
Dec 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious NuGet package that typosquats and impersonates the popular .NET tracing library and…
Amazon Exposes Years-Long GRU Cyber Campaign Targeting Energy and Cloud Infrastructure
Dec 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Amazon’s threat intelligence team has disclosed details of a “years-long” Russian state-sponsored campaign that targeted Western critical infrastructure…
Why Data Security and Privacy Need to Start in Code
AI-assisted coding and AI app generation platforms have created an unprecedented surge in software development. Companies are now facing rapid growth in both the number…
Fortinet FortiGate Under Active Attack Through SAML SSO Authentication Bypass
Dec 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability Threat actors have begun to exploit two newly disclosed security flaws in Fortinet FortiGate devices, less than a…
React2Shell Vulnerability Actively Exploited to Deploy Linux Backdoors
The security vulnerability known as React2Shell is being exploited by threat actors to deliver malware families like KSwapDoor and ZnDoor, according to findings from Palo…
Google to Shut Down Dark Web Monitoring Tool in February 2026
Dec 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananDark Web / Online Safety Google has announced that it’s discontinuing its dark web report tool in February 2026, less than two…
Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users’ AI Chats
A Google Chrome extension with a “Featured” badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence…
FreePBX Patches Critical SQLi, File-Upload, and AUTHTYPE Bypass Flaws Enabling RCE
Dec 15, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform FreePBX, including a critical…
A Browser Extension Risk Guide After the ShadyPanda Campaign
In early December 2025, security researchers exposed a cybercrime campaign that had quietly hijacked popular Chrome and Edge browser extensions on a massive scale. A…