Microsoft April 2025 Patch Tuesday: Fixing 121 Vulnerabilities, Including a Critical Zero-Day

Microsoft has rolled out its April 2025 Patch Tuesday update, addressing 121 security vulnerabilities across its software ecosystem. This comprehensive update includes fixes for critical issues such as the elevation of privilege, remote code execution, and information disclosure vulnerabilities. Among…

Smishing Surge Expected in 2025 Driven by Sophisticated Phishing-as-a-Service Platform

Security researchers are sounding the alarm on a looming global wave of smishing attacks, warning that a powerful phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named Lucid—run by Chinese-speaking threat actors—is enabling cybercriminals to scale operations across 88 countries.  According to threat intelligence firm…

New GIFTEDCROOK Stealer Targets Government Organizations to Exfiltrate Sensitive Data

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered an alarming escalation in cyber-espionage operations targeting Ukrainian critical sectors, as outlined in CERT-UA’s latest alert, CERT-UA#14303. The campaign, attributed to the UAC-0226 hacking group, leverages a sophisticated C/C++-based stealer called GIFTEDCROOK to infiltrate systems, steal…