Author: Joe-W

Democratic senators hammered two top national security officials Tuesday about their participation in a Signal chat discussing war plans that reportedly included a journalist, but struggled to get specific answers to some of their questions about what happened and how. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard wouldn’t even initially acknowledge her involvement in the chat group, where, as reported by The...

McAfee Labs reveals new Android malware exploiting .NET MAUI to steal user data. Learn about advanced evasion techniques and how to stay protected.  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

Alisa Viejo, United States, 25th March 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

In episode 43 of The AI Fix, our hosts discover a robot that isn’t terrifying, a newspaper shuns journalists in favour of AI, Graham watches a robot dog learn to stand, an AI computer programmer develops a familiar attitude, and New York tries to stop its humans arming their robots. Graham worries about AI vomit, a Norwegian man is falsely...

Governments should prioritize the use of privacy-boosting technologies like encryption, de-identification and hashing to prevent breaches and data misuse, a report that New America’s Open Technology Institute published Tuesday recommends. The study comes as cyber and privacy experts warn about the dangers of the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) accessing sensitive information at federal agencies, also the subject...

Ramat Gan, Israel, 25th March 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

A new investigation has unearthed nearly 200 unique command-and-control (C2) domains associated with a malware called Raspberry Robin. “Raspberry Robin (also known as Roshtyak or Storm-0856) is a complex and evolving threat actor that provides initial access broker (IAB) services to numerous criminal groups, many of which have connections to Russia,” Silent Push said in a report shared with The ...

A major telecommunications company located in Asia was allegedly breached by Chinese state-sponsored hackers who spent over four years inside its systems, according to a new report from incident response firm Sygnia. The cybersecurity company is tracking the activity under the name Weaver Ant, describing the threat actor as stealthy and highly persistent. The name of the telecom provider was...

Cybercriminals exploit AbyssWorker driver to disable EDR systems, deploying MEDUSA ransomware with revoked certificates for stealthy attacks.  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

Organizations now use an average of 112 SaaS applications—a number that keeps growing. In a 2024 study, 49% of 644 respondents who frequently used Microsoft 365 believed that they had less than 10 apps connected to the platform, despite the fact that aggregated data indicated over 1,000+ Microsoft 365 SaaS-to-SaaS connections on average per deployment. And that’s just one major...

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an Android malware campaign that leverages Microsoft’s .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) framework to create bogus banking and social media apps targeting Indian and Chinese-speaking users. “These threats disguise themselves as legitimate apps, targeting users to steal sensitive information,” McAfee Labs researcher Dexter Shin said. .NET  – Read More  – The Hacker News 

Law enforcement authorities in seven African countries have arrested 306 suspects and confiscated 1,842 devices as part of an international operation codenamed Red Card that took place between November 2024 and February 2025. The coordinated effort “aims to disrupt and dismantle cross-border criminal networks which cause significant harm to individuals and businesses,” INTERPOL said, adding it  – Read More  –...

In-game skins are more than just cosmetic upgrades, they’re a core part of gaming culture. Whether you’re looking…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

Researchers warn that attackers could exploit a recently discovered critical vulnerability in the open-source JavaScript framework Next.js to bypass authorization in middleware and gain access to targeted systems. Vercel, the San Francisco-based company that created and maintains Next.js, released a patch for CVE-2025-29927 in Next.js 15.2.3 on March 18 and published a security advisory on March 21. Researchers Allam Rachid...

When you think of malware, your mind probably jumps to malicious downloads or email attachments. But it turns…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

Oracle is caught up in a cybersecurity mess right now, with claims about a massive data breach affecting…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

A set of five critical security shortcomings have been disclosed in the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution, putting over 6,500 clusters at immediate risk by exposing the component to the public internet. The vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-24513, CVE-2025-24514, CVE-2025-1097, CVE-2025-1098, and CVE-2025-1974 ), assigned a CVSS score of  – Read More  – The Hacker...

Genetic testing business 23andMe filed for bankruptcy Sunday, amplifying fears from privacy advocates that the DNA records and personal information of its 15 million customers could soon be up for sale to the highest bidder. 23andMe, which was once valued at $6 billion, has been experiencing financial distress and declining profits since going public in 2021.  As part of the...

Cary, NC, 24th March 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

LayerX Labs reports a sophisticated macOS phishing campaign, evading security measures. Learn how attackers adapt and steal credentials from Mac users.  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

A Canadian citizen is one step closer to standing trial in the United States for his alleged involvement in a series of attacks targeting as many as 165 Snowflake customers, one of the most widespread and damaging attack sprees on record.  Connor Moucka consented to extradition on Friday to face 20 federal charges, including conspiracy to commit computer fraud, accessing...

Microsoft on Monday announced a new feature called inline data protection for its enterprise-focused Edge for Business web browser. The native data security control is designed to prevent employees from sharing sensitive company-related data into consumer generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) apps like OpenAI ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and DeepSeek. The list will be expanded over time to  – Read More  –...

A ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation called VanHelsing has already claimed three victims since it launched on March 7, 2025. “The RaaS model allows a wide range of participants, from experienced hackers to newcomers, to get involved with a $5,000 deposit. Affiliates keep 80% of the ransom payments, while the core operators earn 20%,” Check Point said in a report published over...

Cloak ransomware group claims attack on Virginia attorney general’s office, demands ransom for stolen data. Investigation underway. Find out the impact and what’s being done.  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

If given the choice, most users are likely to favor a seamless experience over complex security measures, as they don’t prioritize strong password security. However, balancing security and usability doesn’t have to be a zero-sum game. By implementing the right best practices and tools, you can strike a balance between robust password security and a frictionless user experience (UX). This...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious extensions in the Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace that are designed to deploy ransomware that’s under development to its users. The extensions, named “ahban.shiba” and “ahban.cychelloworld,” have since been taken down by the marketplace maintainers. Both the extensions, per ReversingLabs, incorporate code that’s designed to invoke a  – Read More  – The Hacker News 

A quiet tweak in a popular open-source tool opened the door to a supply chain breach—what started as a targeted attack quickly spiraled, exposing secrets across countless projects. That wasn’t the only stealth move. A new all-in-one malware is silently stealing passwords, crypto, and control—while hiding in plain sight. And over 300 Android apps joined the chaos, running ad  –...

Paris, France, 24th March 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Next.js React framework that could be potentially exploited to bypass authorization checks under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-29927, carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. “Next.js uses an internal header x-middleware-subrequest to prevent recursive requests from triggering infinite loops,” Next.js said in an  – Read More  –...

In 1999, Dave Mann and Steve Christey, two researchers from the nonprofit R&D corporation MITRE,  debuted a concept for security vulnerabilities that laid the groundwork for the common vulnerability and exposures framework (CVE) that organizes information around computer vulnerabilities. Twenty-five years later, the CVE program, which assigns a unique record to each reported vulnerability, is in its fifth iteration. It...

Learn the easiest way to delete duplicate photos on your iPhone device with our simple, step-by-step guide.  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

Gartner describes infrastructure as code (IaC) as a key way to unlock the potential of the cloud. However,…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News 

The supply chain attack involving the GitHub Action “tj-actions/changed-files” started as a highly-targeted attack against one of Coinbase’s open-source projects, before evolving into something more widespread in scope. “The payload was focused on exploiting the public CI/CD flow of one of their open source projects – agentkit, probably with the purpose of leveraging it for further compromises,”  – Read More ...

AI systems are becoming a huge part of our lives, but they are not perfect. Red teaming helps…  – Read More  – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, AI, Crypto & Hacking News