Researchers Exploit Cursor Background Agents to Take Over Amazon EC2 Instance

Security researchers have successfully exploited vulnerabilities in Cursor’s Background Agents to gain unauthorized access to an Amazon EC2 instance, demonstrating critical risks associated with SaaS applications that integrate deeply with cloud infrastructure. The researchers immediately disclosed their findings to Cursor’s…

Unmasking the new Chaos RaaS group attacks

Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) recently observed attacks by Chaos, a relatively new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group conducting big-game hunting and double extortion attacks. This article has been indexed from Cisco Talos Blog Read the original article: Unmasking the new…

AI-Driven Wi-Fi Biometrics WhoFi Tracks Humans Behind Walls with 95.5% Accuracy

Researchers have introduced WhoFi, an AI-powered deep learning pipeline that leverages Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) for person re-identification (Re-ID), achieving a remarkable 95.5% Rank-1 accuracy on the NTU-Fi dataset. Traditional visual Re-ID systems, reliant on convolutional neural networks (CNNs)…

Chinese Hackers Launch Targeted Campaign to Infect Windows Systems with Ghost RAT and PhantomNet Malware

Zscaler ThreatLabz, in collaboration with TibCERT, has uncovered two linked attack campaigns dubbed Operation GhostChat and Operation PhantomPrayers, attributed with high confidence to a China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) group. These operations targeted the Tibetan community by capitalizing on heightened…

Google Introduces OSS Rebuild to Boost Security in Open-Source Package Ecosystems

Google has unveiled OSS Rebuild, a pioneering project designed to enhance trust in package registries by independently reproducing upstream artifacts. This initiative targets the escalating threat of supply chain attacks on widely-used dependencies across Python’s PyPI, JavaScript/TypeScript’s npm, and Rust’s…