Category: TheHackerNews

Russian Bulletproof Hosting
02
Jul
2025

U.S. Sanctions Russian Bulletproof Hosting Provider for Supporting Cybercriminals Behind Ransomware

Jul 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Dark Web The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has…

Vercel v0 AI Tool
02
Jul
2025

Vercel’s v0 AI Tool Weaponized by Cybercriminals to Rapidly Create Fake Login Pages at Scale

Jul 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Phishing Unknown threat actors have been observed weaponizing v0, a generative artificial intelligence (AI)…

Critical Vulnerability in Anthropic's MCP Exposes Developer Machines to Remote Exploits
01
Jul
2025

Critical Vulnerability in Anthropic’s MCP Exposes Developer Machines to Remote Exploits

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security vulnerability in artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) Inspector project…

Hackers Share Tactics and Infrastructure
01
Jul
2025

TA829 and UNK_GreenSec Share Tactics and Infrastructure in Ongoing Malware Campaigns

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged the tactical similarities between the threat actors behind the RomCom RAT and a cluster that has…

New Flaw in IDEs Like Visual Studio Code Lets Malicious Extensions Bypass Verified Status
01
Jul
2025

New Flaw in IDEs Like Visual Studio Code Lets Malicious Extensions Bypass Verified Status

Jul 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananDeveloper Security / Software Development A new study of integrated development environments (IDEs) like Microsoft Visual Studio…

A New Maturity Model for Browser Security
01
Jul
2025

A New Maturity Model for Browser Security: Closing the Last-Mile Risk

Despite years of investment in Zero Trust, SSE, and endpoint protection, many enterprises are still leaving one critical layer exposed:…

Google Patches Critical Zero-Day Flaw in Chrome's V8 Engine After Active Exploitation
01
Jul
2025

Google Patches Critical Zero-Day Flaw in Chrome’s V8 Engine After Active Exploitation

Jul 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Browser Security Google has released security updates to address a vulnerability in its Chrome browser…

U.S. Arrests Key Facilitator in North Korean IT Worker Scheme, Seizes $7.74 Million
01
Jul
2025

U.S. Arrests Key Facilitator in North Korean IT Worker Scheme, Seizes $7.74 Million

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday announced sweeping actions targeting the North Korean information technology (IT) worker scheme,…

Password Management from Authenticator App
01
Jul
2025

Microsoft Removes Password Management from Authenticator App Starting August 2025

Jul 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Privacy Microsoft has said that it’s ending support for passwords in its Authenticator app…

Iranian Cyberattacks on Defense, OT Networks
30
Jun
2025

U.S. Agencies Warn of Rising Iranian Cyberattacks on Defense, OT Networks, and Critical Infrastructure

Jun 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Critical Infrastructure U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have issued a joint advisory warning of…

Cryptocurrency Fraud Network
30
Jun
2025

Europol Dismantles $540 Million Cryptocurrency Fraud Network, Arrests Five Suspects

Europol on Monday announced the takedown of a cryptocurrency investment fraud ring that laundered €460 million ($540 million) from more…

Proton66 Hosting for Phishing, RAT
30
Jun
2025

Blind Eagle Uses Proton66 Hosting for Phishing, RAT Deployment on Colombian Banks

Jun 30, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Vulnerability The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been attributed with high confidence to…