Zscaler Threat Hunting has identified a sophisticated espionage campaign targeting Indian entities through fraudulent “Income Tax Department” portals, representing a significant evolution in the SideWinder APT’s operational tradecraft. The threat actor, also known as Rattlesnake or APT-C-17, has refined its…
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Blind Eagle Hackers Target Government Agencies Using PowerShell Scripts
Colombian government institutions are facing a sophisticated multi-stage cyberattack campaign orchestrated by the BlindEagle threat group, which leveraged compromised internal email accounts, PowerShell scripts, and steganography to deploy remote access trojans on target systems, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers. The…
Nissan Discloses Data Breach Linked to Compromised Red Hat Infrastructure
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. has disclosed a significant data breach affecting approximately 21,000 customers of Nissan Fukuoka Sales Co., Ltd. following unauthorized access to a Red Hat-managed server used for developing the company’s dealership customer management system. Red Hat, a…
Bangladeshi Operator of Fake ID Marketplaces Charged in International Fraud Case
A 29-year-old Bangladeshi man has been indicted on federal charges for operating online marketplaces that sold fraudulent identity document templates to customers worldwide, U.S. authorities announced. Zahid Hasan of Dhaka, Bangladesh, faces nine federal counts, including six counts of transferring…
Microsoft Teams Outage Causes Global Messaging Delays and Service Interruptions
Microsoft Teams users worldwide experienced significant service disruptions on December 20, 2025, as the collaboration platform encountered widespread issues affecting messaging functionality and other critical service operations. The company has acknowledged the incident and is actively investigating the root cause.…
25,000+ FortiCloud SSO-Enabled Systems Vulnerable to Remote Exploitation
The Shadowserver Foundation has identified over 25,000 internet-facing Fortinet devices globally with FortiCloud Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality enabled, raising concerns about potential exposure to critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities. The non-profit security organization recently added fingerprinting capabilities for these systems to…
Apache Log4j Flaw Enables Interception of Sensitive Logging Data
The Apache Software Foundation has released a critical security update for its widely used Log4j logging library. A newly discovered vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-68161, allows attackers to intercept or redirect sensitive log data by exploiting a flaw in how the software…
Hackers Leverage Gladinet Triofox 0-Day Vulnerability to Run Malicious Code
A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Gladinet Triofox is now under active exploitation by threat actors, and security researchers have demonstrated that weaponizing the flaw requires far more sophistication than initial analyses suggest. CVE-2025-12480, tracked by UNC6485, represents a…
Cloud Atlas Exploits Office Vulnerabilities to Execute Malicious Code
The Cloud Atlas threat group, active since 2014, continues to pose a significant risk to organizations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia through sophisticated attacks leveraging legacy Microsoft Office vulnerabilities. Security researchers have documented the group’s expanded arsenal and evolving…
Mapping the Emerging Alliance Between Qilin, DragonForce, and LockBit
In mid-September 2025, the ransomware landscape witnessed a significant development when DragonForce announced an alliance with Qilin and LockBit on a Russian underground forum. The announcement, posted on September 15, 2025, claimed the three groups were joining forces to navigate…
BlueDelta Hackers Target Users of Popular Ukrainian Webmail and News Service
Russian state-sponsored threat group BlueDelta has conducted a sustained credential-harvesting campaign targeting users of UKR.NET, one of Ukraine’s most popular webmail and news services, between June 2024 and April 2025. According to research by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group, the operation…
Roundcube Flaws Let Attackers Execute Malicious Scripts
Roundcube, the widely used open-source webmail software, has officially released critical security updates to address two significant vulnerabilities in its 1.6 and 1.5 LTS (Long-Term Support) versions. These flaws could allow attackers to execute malicious scripts or expose sensitive information,…
Microsoft Patches MSMQ Flaw That Affects IIS Web Servers
Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update to address a significant vulnerability in Message Queuing (MSMQ) functionality that impacts Windows 10 systems running IIS web servers and enterprise environments. The flaw, discovered and documented in the December 9, 2025 update…
Targeted Phishing Attack Strikes HubSpot Users
Evalian’s Security Operations Centre has uncovered an active, sophisticated phishing campaign targeting HubSpot customers, combining business email compromise (BEC) tactics with website compromise to distribute a credential-stealing malware to unsuspecting users. The multi-layered attack demonstrates how modern threat actors are…
Amazon Identified North Korean IT Worker by Tracking Keystroke Activity
Amazon has uncovered a North Korean imposter posing as a U.S.-based systems administrator. The discovery was made not through traditional background checks but by analyzing the subtle timing of the worker’s typing. According to a report from Bloomberg, Amazon security specialists…
New Linux Kernel Rust Vulnerability Triggers System Crashes
A critical race condition vulnerability has been discovered in the Linux kernel’s Rust Binder module, potentially causing system crashes and memory corruption. Assigned CVE-2025-68260, this issue affects the kernel’s inter-process communication mechanism and requires immediate attention from system administrators and…
HPE OneView Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution Attacks
A severe security vulnerability has been discovered in Hewlett Packard Enterprise OneView software, threatening enterprise infrastructure across data centers and hybrid cloud environments. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-37164, carries a maximum CVSS 3.1 severity score of 10.0, indicating critical risk…
APT35 Leak Reveals Spreadsheets Containing Domains, Payments, and Server Information
Iranian cyber unit Charming Kitten, officially designated APT35, has long been dismissed as a noisy but relatively unsophisticated threat actor a politically motivated collective known for recycled phishing templates and credential-harvesting pages. Episode 4, the latest intelligence dump, fundamentally rewrites…
Beware of Malicious Scripts in Weaponized PDF Purchase Orders
A sophisticated phishing campaign utilizing a weaponized PDF document named “NEW Purchase Order # 52177236.pdf” has been identified, employing legitimate cloud infrastructure and encrypted messaging apps to steal corporate credentials. The attack vector was brought to light after security researchers…
New Lazarus and Kimsuky Infrastructure Discovered with Active Tools and Tunneling Nodes
Security researchers from Hunt.io and Acronis Threat Research Unit have uncovered a sophisticated network of operational infrastructure controlled by North Korean state-sponsored threat actors Lazarus and Kimsuky. The collaborative investigation revealed previously undocumented connections between these groups’ campaigns, exposing active…