Tag: Cyber Security News

U.S. Seizes $31 Million Funds Drained from Crypto Exchange

U.S. law enforcement announced the recovery of $31 million in cryptocurrency tied to the 2021 Uranium Finance exploit, marking one of the largest DeFi-related asset seizures.  The operation, spearheaded by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) and Homeland Security…

VMware ESXi Vulnerabilities Exploited in Wild to Execute Malicious Code

VMware has issued a critical security advisory (VMSA-2025-0004) warning of active exploitation of three vulnerabilities in its ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products. These flaws, CVE-2025-22224, CVE-2025-22225, and CVE-2025-22226, allow attackers to execute malicious code, escalate privileges, and leak sensitive memory…

Threat Actors Leveraging AES Cryptography For Payload Protection

Several sophisticated multi-stage malware campaigns were revealed by recent findings from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have employing advanced encryption techniques to evade detection. Threat actors are increasingly using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in combination with code virtualization to…