A newly discovered critical vulnerability in the Next.js framework allows attackers to crash self-hosted servers using a single HTTP request, requiring negligible resources to execute. Discovered by researchers at Harmony Intelligence, the denial-of-service (DoS) flaw affects widespread versions of the…
North Korean Hackers Evade UN Sanctions Leveraging Cyber Capabilities, IT Workers and Crypto Activities
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has intensified its global cyber operations, systematically violating United Nations Security Council resolutions through large-scale cyberattacks, cryptocurrency theft, and cross-border money laundering schemes. According to the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) report, North…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-11-27 00h : 2 posts
2 posts were published in the last hour 23:2 : Elena Lazar: Failures are Inevitable – Reliability is a Choice 22:55 : IT Security News Daily Summary 2025-11-26
Elena Lazar: Failures are Inevitable – Reliability is a Choice
Reliability engineer on why resilience must be designed, not patched, and how decades of global experience taught her to turn outages into insights. This article has been indexed from Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More…
IT Security News Daily Summary 2025-11-26
166 posts were published in the last hour 22:3 : FBI: Account Takeover Scammers Stole $262 Million this Year 21:2 : For the first time, a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed via SocGholish 21:2 : Gainsight CEO downplays…
FBI: Account Takeover Scammers Stole $262 Million this Year
The FBI says that account takeover scams this year have resulted in 5,100-plus complaints in the U.S. and $262 million in money stolen, and Bitdefender says the combination of the growing number of ATO incidents and risky consumer behavior is…
For the first time, a RomCom payload has been observed being distributed via SocGholish
RomCom malware used the SocGholish fake update loader to deliver Mythic Agent to a U.S. civil engineering firm. In September 2025, Arctic Wolf Labs observed RomCom threat actors delivering the Mythic Agent via SocGholish to a U.S. company. The researchers…
Gainsight CEO downplays breach, says only a ‘handful’ of customers had data stolen
Maybe if your hand has 200+ fingers… Gainsight CEO Chuck Ganapathi downplayed the victim count related to his company’s recent breach, saying he’s only aware of “a handful of customers” who had their data affected after Salesforce flagged unusual activity…
AWS Private Certificate Authority now supports partitioned CRLs
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is essential for securing and establishing trust in digital communications. As you scale your digital operations, you’ll issue and revoke certificates. Revoking certificates is useful especially when employees leave, migrate to a new certificate authority hierarchy,…
Xillen Stealer Evolves With AI-Like Evasion and Broader Targeting
Xillen Stealer v5 uses AI-themed evasion and expanded targeting to advance credential-theft tactics. The post Xillen Stealer Evolves With AI-Like Evasion and Broader Targeting appeared first on eSecurity Planet. This article has been indexed from eSecurity Planet Read the original…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2025-11-26 21h : 2 posts
2 posts were published in the last hour 20:2 : Teaching Claude to Cheat Reward Hacking Coding Tasks Makes Them Behave Maliciously in Other Tasks 19:32 : Multiple London councils report disruption amid ongoing cyberattack
Teaching Claude to Cheat Reward Hacking Coding Tasks Makes Them Behave Maliciously in Other Tasks
A new research study from Anthropic has uncovered a concerning pattern in large language models: when these AI systems are trained to pursue specific goals, they can develop reward hacking behaviors that lead to malicious actions in other scenarios. The…
Multiple London councils report disruption amid ongoing cyberattack
Three London councils reported disruption, prompting officials to shut down phone lines and networks, and activate emergency plans. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read the original article: Multiple London councils report disruption amid ongoing cyberattack
Dell ControlVault, Lasso, GL.iNet vulnerabilities
Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed five vulnerabilities in Dell ControlVault 3 firmware and its associated Windows software, four vulnerabilities in Entr'ouvert Lasso, and one vulnerability in GL.iNet Slate AX. The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post…
Rare APT Collaboration Emerges Between Russia and North Korea
Researchers say Russia’s Gamaredon and North Korea’s Lazarus may be sharing infrastructure — a rare APT collaboration. The post Rare APT Collaboration Emerges Between Russia and North Korea appeared first on TechRepublic. This article has been indexed from Security Archives…
Botnet takes advantage of AWS outage to smack 28 countries
Even worse, it might have been a ‘test run’ for future attacks A Mirai-based botnet named ShadowV2 emerged during last October’s widespread AWS outage, infecting IoT devices across industries and continents, likely serving as a “test run” for future attacks,…
How to use the Secrets Store CSI Driver provider Amazon EKS add-on with Secrets Manager
In this post, we introduce the AWS provider for the Secrets Store CSI Driver, a new AWS Secrets Manager add-on for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) that you can use to fetch secrets from Secrets Manager and parameters from…
Rethinking the Software Supply Chain for Agents
A recent MIT study reported that only about 5% of GenAI applications are creating real, measurable business value. In my opinion, that’s not a failure of ambition. If anything, most teams are experimenting aggressively. The issue is that the underlying…
Shai-Hulud v2 Campaign Spreads From npm to Maven, Exposing Thousands of Secrets
The second wave of the Shai-Hulud supply chain attack has spilled over to the Maven ecosystem after compromising more than 830 packages in the npm registry. The Socket Research Team said it identified a Maven Central package named org.mvnpm:posthog-node:4.18.1 that…
The Trust Crisis: Why Digital Services Are Losing Consumer Confidence
According to the Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index 2025, global confidence in digital services is slipping fast. After surveying more than 14,000 consumers across 15 countries, the findings are clear: no sector earned high trust ratings from even half its…
Thanksgiving holiday weekend kicks off heightened threat environment for security teams
As workers take family time and consumers race for Black Friday discounts, hackers gain an advantage to penetrate vulnerable corporate perimeters. This article has been indexed from Cybersecurity Dive – Latest News Read the original article: Thanksgiving holiday weekend kicks…
Meet Rey, the Admin of ‘Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters’
A prolific cybercriminal group that calls itself “Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters” made headlines regularly this year by stealing data from and publicly mass extorting dozens of major corporations. But the tables seem to have turned somewhat for “Rey,” the moniker chosen…
How CTEM Helps Cyber Teams to Become More Proactive
How CTEM Helps Cyber Teams to Become More Proactive Software, infrastructure, and third-party services change far faster than quarterly audit cycles, which increases the risk of data and infrastructure exposure. In the UK, just over four in ten businesses and…
How User Education Can Become the Strongest Link in Casino Security
Casino security used to be pretty straightforward. You had cameras watching the floor and security guards watching for suspicious players. These days, things are way more complicated. Casinos deal with hackers, data breaches, and scammers who go after players through…