Botnet
09
May
2025

Police dismantles botnet selling hacked routers as residential proxies

Law enforcement authorities have dismantled a botnet that infected thousands of routers over the last 20 years to build two…

New Supply Chain Attack Compromises Popular npm Package with 45,000 Weekly Downloads
09
May
2025

New Supply Chain Attack Compromises Popular npm Package with 45,000 Weekly Downloads

An advanced supply chain attack has targeted the well-known npm package rand-user-agent, which receives about 45,000 downloads every week, in…

Chrome
09
May
2025

Google Chrome to use on-device AI to detect tech support scams

Google is implementing a new Chrome security feature that uses the built-in ‘Gemini Nano’ large-language model (LLM) to detect and block…

Threat Actors Target Job Seekers with Three New Unique Adversaries
09
May
2025

Threat Actors Target Job Seekers with Three New Unique Adversaries

Netcraft has uncovered a sharp rise in recruitment scams in 2024, driven by three distinct threat actors employing unique and…

A cyber attack briefly disrupted South African Airways operations
09
May
2025

A cyber attack briefly disrupted South African Airways operations

A cyber attack briefly disrupted South African Airways operations Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2025 A cyberattack briefly disrupted South African…

Senators move to quash the use of Chinese AI system by federal contractors 
09
May
2025

Senators move to quash the use of Chinese AI system by federal contractors 

A bipartisan Senate bill would formally ban the use of DeepSeek by federal contractors, part of a larger effort to…

Hospital
09
May
2025

Ascension says recent data breach affects over 430,000 patients

Ascension, one of the largest private healthcare systems in the United States, has revealed that a data breach disclosed last…

Hackers Weaponizing Facebook Ads to Deploy Multi-Stage Malware Attacks
09
May
2025

Hackers Weaponizing Facebook Ads to Deploy Multi-Stage Malware Attacks

A persistent and highly sophisticated malvertising campaign on Facebook has been uncovered by Bitdefender Labs, exploiting the trust associated with…

Chrome logo
09
May
2025

Google Chrome will use AI to block tech support scam websites

Google has expressed plans to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to stop tech support scams in Chrome. With the launch of…

OtterCookie v4 Adds VM Detection and Chrome, MetaMask Credential Theft Capabilities
09
May
2025

OtterCookie v4 Adds VM Detection and Chrome, MetaMask Credential Theft Capabilities

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed using updated versions of a cross-platform malware…

New Stealthy .NET Malware Hiding Malicious Payloads within bitmap resources
09
May
2025

New Stealthy .NET Malware Hiding Malicious Payloads within bitmap resources

Cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have uncovered a novel obfuscation method employed by threat actors to conceal…

BREAKING: 7,000-Device Proxy Botnet Using IoT, EoL Systems Dismantled in U.S.
09
May
2025

BREAKING: 7,000-Device Proxy Botnet Using IoT, EoL Systems Dismantled in U.S.

A joint law enforcement operation undertaken by Dutch and U.S. authorities has dismantled a criminal proxy network that’s powered by…