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3,500 Websites Hijacked to Secretly Mine Crypto Using Stealth JavaScript and WebSocket Tactics
21
Jul
2025

3,500 Websites Hijacked to Secretly Mine Crypto Using Stealth JavaScript and WebSocket Tactics

Jul 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananWeb Security / Cryptocurrency A new attack campaign has compromised more than 3,500 websites worldwide with JavaScript…

Hard-Coded Credentials Found in HPE Instant On Devices Allow Admin Access
21
Jul
2025

Hard-Coded Credentials Found in HPE Instant On Devices Allow Admin Access

Jul 21, 2025Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Vulnerability Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released security updates to address a critical security flaw…

Microsoft Releases Urgent Patch for SharePoint RCE Flaw Exploited in Ongoing Cyber Attacks
21
Jul
2025

Microsoft Releases Urgent Patch for SharePoint RCE Flaw Exploited in Ongoing Cyber Attacks

Microsoft on Sunday released security patches for an actively exploited security flaw in SharePoint and also released details of another…

EncryptHub Targets Web3 Developers
20
Jul
2025

EncryptHub Targets Web3 Developers Using Fake AI Platforms to Deploy Fickle Stealer Malware

Jul 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananAI Security / Infostealers The financially motivated threat actor known as EncryptHub (aka LARVA-208 and Water Gamayun)…

Malware Injected in npm Packages
20
Jul
2025

Malware Injected into 6 npm Packages After Maintainer Tokens Stolen in Phishing Attack

Jul 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have alerted to a supply chain attack that has targeted popular…

Critical Microsoft SharePoint Flaw
20
Jul
2025

Critical Unpatched SharePoint Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Breaches 75+ Global Organizations

Jul 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Vulnerability A critical security vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server has been weaponized as part of…

Hackers Exploit Critical CrushFTP Flaw to Gain Admin Access on Unpatched Servers
20
Jul
2025

Hackers Exploit Critical CrushFTP Flaw to Gain Admin Access on Unpatched Servers

Jul 20, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence A newly disclosed critical security flaw in CrushFTP has come under active exploitation…

Ivanti Zero-Days Exploited to Drop MDifyLoader and Launch In-Memory Cobalt Strike Attacks
19
Jul
2025

Ivanti Zero-Days Exploited to Drop MDifyLoader and Launch In-Memory Cobalt Strike Attacks

Jul 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malware called MDifyLoader that has been…

UNG0002 Group Hits China, Hong Kong, Pakistan Using LNK Files and RATs in Twin Campaigns
18
Jul
2025

UNG0002 Group Hits China, Hong Kong, Pakistan Using LNK Files and RATs in Twin Campaigns

Jul 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware Multiple sectors in China, Hong Kong, and Pakistan have become the target of…

China's Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones
18
Jul
2025

China’s Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones

Jul 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananSurveillance / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a mobile forensics tool called Massistant that’s…

Why IT Leaders Must Rethink Backup in the Age of Ransomware
18
Jul
2025

Why IT Leaders Must Rethink Backup in the Age of Ransomware

With IT outages and disruptions escalating, IT teams are shifting their focus beyond simply backing up data to maintaining operations…

CERT-UA Discovers LAMEHUG Malware Linked to APT28, Using LLM for Phishing Campaign
18
Jul
2025

CERT-UA Discovers LAMEHUG Malware Linked to APT28, Using LLM for Phishing Campaign

Jul 18, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Malware The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a…