Author: Joe-W

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on the inner workings of a botnet malware called PolarEdge. PolarEdge was first documented by Sekoia in February 2025, attributing it to a campaign targeting routers from Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, and Synology with the goal of corralling them into a network for an as-yet-undetermined purpose. The TLS-based ELF implant, at … Read More “PolarEdge Targets Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, Synology Routers in Expanding Botnet Campaign  – The Hacker News” »

Meta on Tuesday said it’s launching new tools to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. To that end, the company said it’s introducing new warnings on WhatsApp when users attempt to share their screen with an unknown contact during a video call so as to prevent them from giving away sensitive information like … Read More “Meta Rolls Out New Tools to Protect WhatsApp and Messenger Users from Scams  – The Hacker News” »

Veeam announced Tuesday it agreed to acquire Securiti AI for $1.725 billion, marking the data protection company’s largest acquisition and its entry into the artificial intelligence security market as enterprises struggle to deploy AI systems safely. The deal, expected to close in early December, comes as organizations face mounting challenges in managing data across fragmented … Read More “Veeam acquires Securiti AI for $1.7 billion  – CyberScoop” »

Dataminr, a New York-based company specializing in real-time threat intelligence, announced plans Tuesday to acquire ThreatConnect, a cybersecurity threat intelligence provider, for $290 million. The acquisition will combine Dataminr’s AI-powered analysis of public data with ThreatConnect’s internal threat management capabilities, creating what the companies describe as “Client-Tailored intelligence” that adapts to individual customer needs. The … Read More “Dataminr to acquire cybersecurity firm ThreatConnect for $290 million  – CyberScoop” »

Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise for improving cyber defense and making the lives of security practitioners easier. It can help teams cut through alert fatigue, spot patterns faster, and bring a level of scale that human analysts alone can’t match. But realizing that potential depends on securing the systems that make it possible. Every … Read More “Securing AI to Benefit from AI  – The Hacker News” »

Welcome to Day One of Pwn2Own Ireland 2025! We have 17 attempts today with some exciting research on display. We’ll be posting results here as we have them, and follow us on Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky. SUCCESS – Team Neodyme used a stack based buffer overflow to exploit the HP DeskJet 2855e. They earn $20,000 … Read More “Pwn2Own Ireland 2025: Day One Results  – Zero Day Initiative – Blog” »

A European telecommunications organization is said to have been targeted by a threat actor that aligns with a China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Salt Typhoon. The organization, per Darktrace, was targeted in the first week of July 2025, with the attackers exploiting a Citrix NetScaler Gateway appliance to obtain initial access. Salt Typhoon, also … Read More “Hackers Used Snappybee Malware and Citrix Flaw to Breach European Telecom Network  – The Hacker News” »

A new malware attributed to the Russia-linked hacking group known as COLDRIVER has undergone numerous developmental iterations since May 2025, suggesting an increased “operations tempo” from the threat actor. The findings come from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), which said the state-sponsored hacking crew has rapidly refined and retooled its malware arsenal merely five days … Read More “Google Identifies Three New Russian Malware Families Created by COLDRIVER Hackers  – The Hacker News” »

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, officially confirming a recently disclosed vulnerability impacting Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) has been weaponized in real-world attacks. The security defect in question is CVE-2025-61884 (CVSS score: 7.5), which has been described as a  – … Read More “Five New Exploited Bugs Land in CISA’s Catalog — Oracle and Microsoft Among Targets  – The Hacker News” »

China’s Ministry of State Security accused the National Security Agency of conducting a yearslong attack on China’s national timekeeping infrastructure to steal sensitive data and infiltrate the service for potential sabotage.  The NSA gained initial access to China’s National Time Service Center systems in April 2023 by using credentials lifted from employees’ mobile devices that … Read More “China’s spy agency accuses NSA of yearslong attack on the country’s timekeeping service  – CyberScoop” »

A nonprofit organization has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, claiming Google’s business practices around children and teenagers violates U.S. privacy laws and constitutes unfair and deceptive practices. The complaint, filed by the Digital Childhood Institute, lays out five core claims against the tech giant: that it “knowingly” markets adult-themed or age-restricted … Read More “Apple and Google challenged by parents’ rights coalition on youth privacy protections  – CyberScoop” »

A nonprofit organization has filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, claiming Google’s business practices around children and teenagers violates U.S. privacy laws and constitutes unfair and deceptive practices. The complaint, filed by the Digital Childhood Institute, lays out five core claims against the tech giant: that it “knowingly” markets adult-themed or age-restricted … Read More “Apple and Google challenged by parents’ rights coalition on youth privacy protections  – CyberScoop” »

Welcome to Pwn2Own Ireland 2025! We have some amazing spooky entries for this year’s contest, and a potential of up to $2,000,000 – including our largest ever single prize for a 0-click in WhatsApp for $1,000,000. As always, we began our contest with a random drawing to determine the order of attempts. If you missed … Read More “Pwn2Own Ireland 2025: The Full Schedule  – Zero Day Initiative – Blog” »

WhatsApp has won a ruling against spyware maker NSO Group forbidding it from targeting its users, while NSO Group in the same ruling got a massive reduction to the punitive damages a court had previously awarded. Northern California District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton granted the permanent injunction in a ruling late Friday. In doing so, … Read More “Judge forbids NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users  – CyberScoop” »

On April 16, less than a month after nonprofit R&D organization MITRE celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) effort, the program narrowly escaped a sudden demise when a last-minute, 11-month contract extension averted a shutdown.  That near-miss put vulnerability experts and cybersecurity defenders on edge, most of whom still fear … Read More “Behind the struggle for control of the CVE program  – CyberScoop” »

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a coordinated campaign that leveraged 131 rebranded clones of a WhatsApp Web automation extension for Google Chrome to spam Brazilian users at scale. The 131 spamware extensions share the same codebase, design patterns, and infrastructure, according to supply chain security company Socket. The browser add-ons collectively have about 20,905 active users. … Read More “131 Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking WhatsApp Web for Massive Spam Campaign  – The Hacker News” »

ClickFix, FileFix, fake CAPTCHA — whatever you call it, attacks where users interact with malicious scripts in their web browser are a fast-growing source of security breaches.  ClickFix attacks prompt the user to solve some kind of problem or challenge in the browser — most commonly a CAPTCHA, but also things like fixing an error … Read More “Analysing ClickFix: 3 Reasons Why Copy/Paste Attacks Are Driving Security Breaches  – The Hacker News” »

It’s easy to think your defenses are solid — until you realize attackers have been inside them the whole time. The latest incidents show that long-term, silent breaches are becoming the norm. The best defense now isn’t just patching fast, but watching smarter and staying alert for what you don’t expect. Here’s a quick look … Read More “⚡ Weekly Recap: F5 Breached, Linux Rootkits, Pixnapping Attack, EtherHiding & More  – The Hacker News” »

China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) of carrying out a “premeditated” cyber attack targeting the National Time Service Center (NTSC), as it described the U.S. as a “hacker empire” and the “greatest source of chaos in cyberspace.” The Ministry of State Security (MSS), in a WeChat post, said it uncovered “irrefutable … Read More “MSS Claims NSA Used 42 Cyber Tools in Multi-Stage Attack on Beijing Time Systems  – The Hacker News” »

Europol on Friday announced the disruption of a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that operated a SIM farm and enabled its customers to carry out a broad spectrum of crimes ranging from phishing to investment fraud. The coordinated law enforcement effort, dubbed Operation SIMCARTEL, saw 26 searches carried out, resulting in the arrest of seven suspects … Read More “Europol Dismantles SIM Farm Network Powering 49 Million Fake Accounts Worldwide  – The Hacker News” »

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign that has likely targeted the Russian automobile and e-commerce sectors with a previously undocumented .NET malware dubbed CAPI Backdoor. According to Seqrite Labs, the attack chain involves distributing phishing emails containing a ZIP archive as a way to trigger the infection. The cybersecurity company’s analysis is … Read More “New .NET CAPI Backdoor Targets Russian Auto and E-Commerce Firms via Phishing ZIPs  – The Hacker News” »

The threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 (aka ValleyRAT) have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target Japan and Malaysia with another remote access trojan (RAT) tracked as HoldingHands RAT (aka Gh0stBins). “The campaign relied on phishing emails with PDFs that contained embedded malicious links,” Pei Han Liao, … Read More “Silver Fox Expands Winos 4.0 Attacks to Japan and Malaysia via HoldingHands RAT  – The Hacker News” »

European law enforcement dismantled and seized an expansive cybercrime operation used to facilitate phishing attacks via mobile networks for fraud, including account intrusions, credential and financial data theft, Europol said Friday. Investigators from Austria, Estonia and Latvia linked the cybercrime networks to more than 3,200 fraud cases, which also involved investment scams and fake emergencies … Read More “Europol dismantles cybercrime network linked to $5.8M in financial losses  – CyberScoop” »