XRP Ledger SDK hit by supply chain attack: Malicious NPM versions stole private keys; users urged to update…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto 

A federal court partially blocked a Trump administration executive order Thursday that seeks to impose requirements on states to use the White House’s definition of “documentary proof” of citizenship, inhibit mail voting and other election-related elements by threatening to withhold federal funding.  The order was subject to multiple lawsuits from Democratic Party organizations as well as civic groups like the...

Blue Shield of California exposed the health data of 4.7 million members to Google for years due to…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto 

Blockchain infrastructure provider dRPC has announced the launch of a NodeHaus platform that enables chain foundations unprecedented control…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto 

At least six organizations in South Korea have been targeted by the prolific North Korea-linked Lazarus Group as part of a campaign dubbed Operation SyncHole. The activity targeted South Korea’s software, IT, financial, semiconductor manufacturing, and telecommunications industries, according to a report from Kaspersky published today. The earliest evidence of compromise was first detected in  – Read More  – The...

SessionShark phishing kit bypasses Office 365 MFA by stealing session tokens. Experts warn of real-time attacks via fake…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto 

A Growing Threat and How Da Vinci helps Businesses Fight Back As businesses continue to digitise operations, sensitive data becomes increasingly vulnerable to exposure on hidden layers of the internet. Deep and dark web scavenging has emerged as a prominent tactic used by cybercriminals to exploit personal, corporate, and government data. While the deep web […] The post Deep and...

As many as 159 CVE identifiers have been flagged as exploited in the wild in the first quarter of 2025, up from 151 in Q4 2024. “We continue to see vulnerabilities being exploited at a fast pace with 28.3% of vulnerabilities being exploited within 1-day of their CVE disclosure,” VulnCheck said in a report shared with The Hacker News. This...

Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a proof-of-concept (PoC) rootkit dubbed Curing that leverages a Linux asynchronous I/O mechanism called io_uring to bypass traditional system call monitoring. This causes a “major blind spot in Linux runtime security tools,” ARMO said. “This mechanism allows a user application to perform various actions without using system calls,” the company said in  – Read More  –...

The threat actors behind the Darcula phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform have released new updates to their cybercrime suite with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities. “This addition lowers the technical barrier for creating phishing pages, enabling less tech-savvy criminals to deploy customized scams in minutes,” Netcraft said in a new report shared with The Hacker News. ”  – Read More  – The...

Hackers in the Elusive Comet campaign exploit Zoom’s remote-control feature to steal cryptocurrency, and over $100K lost in…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto 

With the rise of fintechs, accuracy alone isn’t enough, security and reliability are just as necessary. For fintech…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto 

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Commvault Command Center that could allow arbitrary code execution on affected installations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-34028, carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of a maximum of 10.0. “A critical security vulnerability has been identified in the Command Center installation, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code without  – Read...

The Evolving Healthcare Cybersecurity Landscape  Healthcare organizations face unprecedented cybersecurity challenges in 2025. With operational technology (OT) environments increasingly targeted and the convergence of IT and medical systems creating an expanded attack surface, traditional security approaches are proving inadequate. According to recent statistics, the healthcare sector  – Read More  – The Hacker News 

WhatsApp has introduced an extra layer of privacy called Advanced Chat Privacy that allows users to block participants from sharing the contents of a conversation in traditional chats and groups. “This new setting available in both chats and groups helps prevent others from taking content outside of WhatsApp for when you may want extra privacy,” WhatsApp said in a statement....

Graham explores how the Elusive Comet cybercrime gang are using a sneaky trick of stealing your cryptocurrency via an innocent-appearing Zoom call, and Carole goes under the covers to explore the extraordinary lengths bio-hacking millionaire Bryan Johnson is attempting to extend his life. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by...

Attackers are having a field day with software defects in security devices, according to a new report released Wednesday by Mandiant  Exploits were the most common initial infection vector, representing 1 of every 3 attacks in 2024, and the four most frequently exploited vulnerabilities were all contained in edge devices, such as VPNs, firewalls and routers, Mandiant said in its...

A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency’s sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub. Further investigation into one of those code bundles shows...

Multiple threat activity clusters with ties to North Korea (aka Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or DPRK) have been linked to attacks targeting organizations and individuals in the Web3 and cryptocurrency space. “The focus on Web3 and cryptocurrency appears to be primarily financially motivated due to the heavy sanctions that have been placed on North Korea,” Google-owned Mandiant said in ...

It looks like 2024 was a record year in cybercrime for all the wrong reasons, according to the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report released Wednesday.  As cyber-enabled fraud and ransomware continue to harm individuals, businesses, and critical infrastructure, the report, now in its 25th year, provides crucial insight into evolving criminal tactics and their nationwide impact. The...

Free up space on your iPhone fast. Learn 5 proven ways to clear storage, remove clutter, and manage photos, apps, and files with no gimmicks, just results.  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto 

The Iran-nexus threat actor known as UNC2428 has been observed delivering a backdoor known as MURKYTOUR as part of a job-themed social engineering campaign aimed at Israel in October 2024. Google-owned Mandiant described UNC2428 as a threat actor aligned with Iran that engages in cyber espionage-related operations. The intrusion set is said to have distributed the malware through a “complex ...

Lattica’s cloud-based solution uses Fully Homomorphic Encryption to query encrypted data on AI models without decrypting it, preserving privacy and bolstering security.  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto 

AOA, DaVita, and Bell Ambulance hit by ransomware in 2025. Over 245K affected as hackers steal patient data,…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto 

Cybersecurity researchers have revealed that Russian military personnel are the target of a new malicious campaign that distributes Android spyware under the guise of the Alpine Quest mapping software. “The attackers hide this trojan inside modified Alpine Quest mapping software and distribute it in various ways, including through one of the Russian Android app catalogs,” Doctor Web said in an ...

Multiple suspected Russia-linked threat actors are “aggressively” targeting individuals and organizations with ties to Ukraine and human rights with an aim to gain unauthorized access to Microsoft 365 accounts since early March 2025. The highly targeted social engineering operations, per Volexity, are a shift from previously documented attacks that leveraged a technique known as device code  – Read More  –...

Phishing attacks remain a huge challenge for organizations in 2025. In fact, with attackers increasingly leveraging identity-based techniques over software exploits, phishing arguably poses a bigger threat than ever before.  Attackers are increasingly leveraging identity-based techniques over software exploits, with phishing and stolen credentials (a byproduct of phishing) now the primary  – Read More  – The Hacker News 

Marks & Spencer (M&S) cyberattack disrupts contactless payments and Click & Collect; investigation launched as retailer apologises and…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Hacking News, Tech, AI & Crypto 

Last year, the escalating concerns about Chinese threat actors breaching U.S. organizations reached a crescendo as federal authorities issued increasingly urgent advisories about China’s “Typhoon” groups infiltrating U.S. networks, pressing organizations to take immediate action. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that these groups were engaged in a host of massive...