Google on Monday released security updates for its Chrome browser to address two security flaws, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-13223 (CVSS score: 8.8), a type confusion vulnerability in…
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New EVALUSION ClickFix Campaign Delivers Amatera Stealer and NetSupport RAT
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malware campaigns using the now-prevalent ClickFix social engineering tactic to deploy Amatera Stealer and NetSupport RAT. The activity, observed this month, is being tracked by eSentire under the moniker EVALUSION. First spotted in June 2025, Amatera…
5 Reasons Why Attackers Are Phishing Over LinkedIn
Phishing attacks are no longer confined to the email inbox, with 1 in 3 phishing attacks now taking place over non-email channels like social media, search engines, and messaging apps. LinkedIn in particular has become a hotbed for phishing attacks,…
⚡ Weekly Recap: Fortinet Exploited, China’s AI Hacks, PhaaS Empire Falls & More
This week showed just how fast things can go wrong when no one’s watching. Some attacks were silent and sneaky. Others used tools we trust every day — like AI, VPNs, or app stores — to cause damage without setting…
Dragon Breath Uses RONINGLOADER to Disable Security Tools and Deploy Gh0st RAT
The threat actor known as Dragon Breath has been observed making use of a multi-stage loader codenamed RONINGLOADER to deliver a modified variant of a remote access trojan called Gh0st RAT. The campaign, which is primarily aimed at Chinese-speaking users,…
Rust Adoption Drives Android Memory Safety Bugs Below 20% for First Time
Google has disclosed that the company’s continued adoption of the Rust programming language in Android has resulted in the number of memory safety vulnerabilities falling below 20% for the first time. “We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing…
RondoDox Exploits Unpatched XWiki Servers to Pull More Devices Into Its Botnet
The botnet malware known as RondoDox has been observed targeting unpatched XWiki instances against a critical security flaw that could allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-24893 (CVSS score: 9.8), an eval injection bug…
Five Plead Guilty in U.S. for Helping North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate 136 Companies
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday announced that five individuals have pleaded guilty to assisting North Korea’s illicit revenue generation schemes by enabling information technology (IT) worker fraud in violation of international sanctions. The five individuals are listed…
Five U.S. Citizens Plead Guilty to Helping North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate 136 Companies
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday announced that five individuals have pleaded guilty to assisting North Korea’s illicit revenue generation schemes by enabling information technology (IT) worker fraud in violation of international sanctions. The five individuals are listed…
North Korean Hackers Turn JSON Services into Covert Malware Delivery Channels
The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage malicious payloads. “The threat actors have recently resorted to utilizing JSON storage services like JSON Keeper, JSONsilo,…
Iranian Hackers Launch ‘SpearSpecter’ Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. The activity, detected in early September 2025…
Researchers Find Serious AI Bugs Exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft Inference Frameworks
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including those from Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open-source PyTorch projects such as vLLM and SGLang. “These vulnerabilities all traced back to the same root…
Ransomware’s Fragmentation Reaches a Breaking Point While LockBit Returns
Key Takeaways: 85 active ransomware and extortion groups observed in Q3 2025, reflecting the most decentralized ransomware ecosystem to date. 1,590 victims disclosed across 85 leak sites, showing high, sustained activity despite law-enforcement pressure. 14 new ransomware brands launched this…
Now-Patched Fortinet FortiWeb Flaw Exploited in Attacks to Create Admin Accounts
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alert about an authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb WAF that could allow an attacker to take over admin accounts and completely compromise a device. “The watchTowr team is seeing active, indiscriminate in-the-wild exploitation of…
Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic’s AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign
State-sponsored threat actors from China used artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by Anthropic to orchestrate automated cyber attacks as part of a “highly sophisticated espionage campaign” in mid-September 2025. “The attackers used AI’s ‘agentic’ capabilities to an unprecedented degree –…
Fortinet FortiWeb Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild Before Company’s Silent Patch
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alert about an authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb WAF that could allow an attacker to take over admin accounts and completely compromise a device. “The watchTowr team is seeing active, indiscriminate in-the-wild exploitation of…
Russian Hackers Create 4,300 Fake Travel Sites to Steal Hotel Guests’ Payment Data
A Russian-speaking threat behind an ongoing, mass phishing campaign has registered more than 4,300 domain names since the start of the year. The activity, per Netcraft security researcher Andrew Brandt, is designed to target customers of the hospitality industry, specifically…
Fake Chrome Extension “Safery” Steals Ethereum Wallet Seed Phrases Using Sui Blockchain
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a malicious Chrome extension that poses as a legitimate Ethereum wallet but harbors functionality to exfiltrate users’ seed phrases. The name of the extension is “Safery: Ethereum Wallet,” with the threat actor describing it as a…
Operation Endgame Dismantles Rhadamanthys, Venom RAT, and Elysium Botnet in Global Crackdown
Malware families like Rhadamanthys Stealer, Venom RAT, and the Elysium botnet have been disrupted as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation led by Europol and Eurojust. The activity, which is taking place between November 10 and 13, 2025, marks…
When Attacks Come Faster Than Patches: Why 2026 Will be the Year of Machine-Speed Security
The Race for Every New CVE Based on multiple 2025 industry reports: roughly 50 to 61 percent of newly disclosed vulnerabilities saw exploit code weaponized within 48 hours. Using the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog as a reference, hundreds of…