Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical flaw impacting Salesforce Agentforce, a platform for building artificial intelligence (AI) agents, that could allow attackers to potentially exfiltrate sensitive data from its customer relationship management (CRM) tool by means of an indirect prompt…
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North Korean Hackers Use New AkdoorTea Backdoor to Target Global Crypto Developers
The North Korea-linked threat actors associated with the Contagious Interview campaign have been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called AkdoorTea, along with tools like TsunamiKit and Tropidoor. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which is tracking the activity under the name…
Threatsday Bulletin: Rootkit Patch, Federal Breach, OnePlus SMS Leak, TikTok Scandal & More
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CTEM’s Core: Prioritization and Validation
Despite a coordinated investment of time, effort, planning, and resources, even the most up-to-date cybersecurity systems continue to fail. Every day. Why? It’s not because security teams can’t see enough. Quite the contrary. Every security tool spits out thousands of…
Tech Overtakes Gaming as Top DDoS Attack Target, New Gcore Radar Report Finds
The latest Gcore Radar report analyzing attack data from Q1–Q2 2025, reveals a 41% year-on-year increase in total attack volume. The largest attack peaked at 2.2 Tbps, surpassing the 2 Tbps record in late 2024. Attacks are growing not only…
Malicious Rust Crates Steal Solana and Ethereum Keys — 8,424 Downloads Confirmed
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Rust crates impersonating a legitimate library called fast_log to steal Solana and Ethereum wallet keys from source code. The crates, named faster_log and async_println, were published by the threat actor under the alias rustguruman…
Cisco Warns of Actively Exploited SNMP Vulnerability Allowing RCE or DoS in IOS Software
Cisco has warned of a high-severity security flaw in IOS Software and IOS XE Software that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition under specific circumstances. The company said the vulnerability, CVE-2025-20352…
Chinese Hackers RedNovember Target Global Governments Using Pantegana and Cobalt Strike
A suspected cyber espionage activity cluster that was previously found targeting global government and private sector organizations spanning Africa, Asia, North America, South America, and Oceania has been assessed to be a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor. Recorded Future, which was…
UNC5221 Uses BRICKSTORM Backdoor to Infiltrate U.S. Legal and Technology Sectors
Companies in the legal services, software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs), and technology sectors in the U.S. have been targeted by a suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group to deliver a known backdoor referred to as BRICKSTORM. The activity, attributed…
Two Critical Flaws Uncovered in Wondershare RepairIt Exposing User Data and AI Models
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Wondershare RepairIt that exposed private user data and potentially exposed the system to artificial intelligence (AI) model tampering and supply chain risks. The critical-rated vulnerabilities in question, discovered by Trend Micro, are…
iframe Security Exposed: The Blind Spot Fueling Payment Skimmer Attacks
Think payment iframes are secure by design? Think again. Sophisticated attackers have quietly evolved malicious overlay techniques to exploit checkout pages and steal credit card data by bypassing the very security policies designed to stop them. Download the complete iframe…
New YiBackdoor Malware Shares Major Code Overlaps with IcedID and Latrodectus
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malware family dubbed YiBackdoor that has been found to share “significant” source code overlaps with IcedID and Latrodectus. “The exact connection to YiBackdoor is not yet clear, but it may be used…
How One Bad Password Ended a 158-Year-Old Business
Most businesses don’t make it past their fifth birthday – studies show that roughly 50% of small businesses fail within the first five years. So when KNP Logistics Group (formerly Knights of Old) celebrated more than a century and a half of…
Hackers Exploit Pandoc CVE-2025-51591 to Target AWS IMDS and Steal EC2 IAM Credentials
Cloud security company Wiz has revealed that it uncovered in-the-wild exploitation of a security flaw in a Linux utility called Pandoc as part of attacks designed to infiltrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) Instance Metadata Service (IMDS). The vulnerability in question…
State-Sponsored Hackers Exploiting Libraesva Email Security Gateway Vulnerability
Libraesva has released a security update to address a vulnerability in its Email Security Gateway (ESG) solution that it said has been exploited by state-sponsored threat actors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59689, carries a CVSS score of 6.1, indicating medium…
Two New Supermicro BMC Bugs Allow Malicious Firmware to Evade Root of Trust Security
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two security vulnerabilities impacting Supermicro Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware that could potentially allow attackers to bypass crucial verification steps and update the system with a specially crafted image. The medium-severity vulnerabilities, both of…
Eurojust Arrests 5 in €100M Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud Spanning 23 Countries
Law enforcement authorities in Europe have arrested five suspects in connection with an “elaborate” online investment fraud scheme that stole more than €100 million ($118 million) from over 100 victims in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. According to Eurojust, the…
U.S. Secret Service Seizes 300 SIM Servers, 100K Cards Threatening U.S. Officials Near UN
The U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday said it took down a network of electronic devices located across the New York tri-state area that were used to threaten U.S. government officials and posed an imminent threat to national security. “This protective…
SolarWinds Releases Hotfix for Critical CVE-2025-26399 Remote Code Execution Flaw
SolarWinds has released hot fixes to address a critical security flaw impacting its Web Help Desk software that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-26399 (CVSS score: 9.8), has…
ShadowV2 Botnet Exploits Misconfigured AWS Docker Containers for DDoS-for-Hire Service
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet that customers can rent access to conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets of interest. The ShadowV2 botnet, according to Darktrace, predominantly targets misconfigured Docker containers on Amazon Web Services (AWS)…