Author: Matt Kapko

The Washington Post said it, too, was impacted by the data theft and extortion campaign targeting Oracle E-Business Suite customers, compromising human resources data on nearly 10,000 current and former employers and contractors. The company was first alerted to the attack and launched an investigation when a “bad actor” contacted the media company Sept. 29 … Read More “Washington Post confirms data on nearly 10,000 people stolen from its Oracle environment  – CyberScoop” »

Europol-led Operation Endgame seizes 1,025 servers and arrests a key suspect in Greece, disrupting three major global malware and hacking tools, including Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT and Elysium botnet.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Google is suing more than two dozen unnamed individuals allegedly involved in peddling a popular China-based mobile phishing service that helps scammers impersonate hundreds of trusted brands, blast out text message lures, and convert phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. In a lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New … Read More “Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing Triad  – Krebs on Security” »

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a large-scale spam campaign that has flooded the npm registry with thousands of fake packages since early 2024 as part of a likely financially motivated effort. “The packages were systematically published over an extended period, flooding the npm registry with junk packages that survived in the ecosystem for almost … Read More “Over 67,000 Fake npm Packages Flood Registry in Worm-Like Spam Attack  – The Hacker News” »

In a sweeping international crackdown coordinated from Europol’s headquarters, law enforcement agencies from the United States and 10 other countries have disrupted three of the world’s most widely used cybercriminal malware operations. Conducted Nov. 10-13, Operation Endgame focused on neutralizing the Rhadamanthys info-stealing malware, the VenomRAT remote access trojan, and the Elysium botnet — tools … Read More “Operation Endgame targets malware networks in global crackdown  – CyberScoop” »

CVE 2025 42887 vulnerability, rated 9.9, allows code injection through Solution Manager giving attackers full SAP control urgent patch needed to block system takeover.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

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 “secure wallet for managing Ethereum cryptocurrency with flexible settings.” It was uploaded to the Chrome … Read More “Fake Chrome Extension “Safery” Steals Ethereum Wallet Seed Phrases Using Sui Blockchain  – The Hacker News” »

Q3 showed sharp growth in malware activity as Lumma AgentTesla and Xworm drove access and data theft forcing SOC teams toward quicker behavior checks  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

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 the latest phase of Operation Endgame, an ongoing operation designed to take down criminal infrastructures … Read More “Operation Endgame Dismantles Rhadamanthys, Venom RAT, and Elysium Botnet in Global Crackdown  – The Hacker News” »

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 software flaws are now confirmed as actively targeted within days of public disclosure. Each new … Read More “When Attacks Come Faster Than Patches: Why 2026 Will be the Year of Machine-Speed Security  – The Hacker News” »

Behind every click, there’s a risk waiting to be tested. A simple ad, email, or link can now hide something dangerous. Hackers are getting smarter, using new tools to sneak past filters and turn trusted systems against us. But security teams are fighting back. They’re building faster defenses, better ways to spot attacks, and stronger … Read More “ThreatsDay Bulletin: Cisco 0-Days, AI Bug Bounties, Crypto Heists, State-Linked Leaks and 20 More Stories  – The Hacker News” »

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting WatchGuard Fireware to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-9242 (CVSS score: 9.3), an out-of-bounds write vulnerability affecting Fireware OS 11.10.2 up to and including  – Read More  … Read More “CISA Flags Critical WatchGuard Fireware Flaw Exposing 54,000 Fireboxes to No-Login Attacks  – The Hacker News” »

Singapore, Singapore, 13th November 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Tinder has got a plan to rummage through your camera roll, and Warren Buffett keeps popping up in convincing deepfakes dishing “number one investment tips.” Meanwhile, will agentic AI replace your co-hosts before you can say “EDR for robots”? and why you should still read books. All this, plus Lily Allen’s new album and Claude … Read More “Smashing Security podcast #443: Tinder’s camera roll and the Buffett deepfake  – Graham Cluley” »

AI security firm Mindgard discovered a flaw in OpenAI’s Sora 2 model, forcing the video generator to leak…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Forty Democratic members of the House and Senate issued a joint letter Wednesday to 19 states led by Democratic governors, urging them to block Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies from accessing driver’s license and registration data in their states. The letter, led by Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., … Read More “Congressional Dems press governors to block feds from accessing state DMV data  – CyberScoop” »

The Trump administration’s top cyber officials have emphasized the urgent need to take aggressive action to deter increasingly brazen foreign cyberattacks. Trump himself, however, has repeatedly brushed aside the notion that foreign cyber activity is anything even really noteworthy. When Trump’s team talks about foreign hacking, be it China’s alleged massive cyberespionage campaign against telecommunications … Read More “While White House demands deterrence, Trump shrugs  – CyberScoop” »

Google on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against pesky text message scammers — like those who flood targets with notices that they have unpaid road tolls, or have a package waiting — in an attempt to disrupt a “phishing for dummies” operation the company accuses of victimizing more than 1 million people. The lawsuit against 25 … Read More “Google files lawsuit against Lighthouse ‘phishing for dummies’ text scammers  – CyberScoop” »

Throughout 2024, OpenAI teased the public release of Sora, its new video generation large language model, capable of creating lifelike visuals out of user prompts. But due to concerns about the tool being used to create realistic disinformation during a  critical U.S. election year, the company delayed its release until after the elections.  Now, a … Read More “Advocacy group calls on OpenAI to address Sora 2’s deepfake risks  – CyberScoop” »

Amazon’s threat intelligence team said it observed an advanced persistent threat group exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Identity Service Engine and Citrix NetScaler products before the vendors disclosed and patched the defects last summer. Amazon’s MadPot honeypot service detected active exploitation of the critical defects — CVE-2025-5777 in Citrix and CVE-2025-20337 in Cisco — and … Read More “Amazon pins Cisco, Citrix zero-day attacks to APT group  – CyberScoop” »

Old DarkComet RAT spyware is back, hiding inside fake Bitcoin wallets and trading apps to steal credentials via keylogging.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Google has filed a civil lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) against China-based hackers who are behind a massive Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platform called Lighthouse that has ensnared over 1 million users across 120 countries. The PhaaS kit is used to conduct large-scale SMS phishing attacks that exploit … Read More ” Google Sues China-Based Hackers Behind $1 Billion Lighthouse Phishing Platform  – The Hacker News” »

A 20-year-old Maryland man allegedly associated with violent extremist group 764 is in federal custody, facing charges for sexual exploitation of children, online coercement and enticement, and cyberstalking.  Erik Lee Madison, of Halethorpe, Maryland, is accused of victimizing at least five children this fall, including one as young as 13 at the time. His alleged … Read More “Maryland man faces federal charges for crimes allegedly linked to 764  – CyberScoop” »

North Korea-linked KONNI hackers used KakaoTalk and Google Find Hub to spy on victims and remotely wipe Android devices in a targeted phishing campaign.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Amazon’s threat intelligence team on Wednesday disclosed that it observed an advanced threat actor exploiting two then-zero-day security flaws in Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) and Citrix NetScaler ADC products as part of attacks designed to deliver custom malware. “This discovery highlights the trend of threat actors focusing on critical identity and network access control … Read More “Amazon Uncovers Attacks Exploited Cisco ISE and Citrix NetScaler as Zero-Day Flaws  – The Hacker News” »

Every day, security teams face the same problem—too many risks, too many alerts, and not enough time. You fix one issue, and three more show up. It feels like you’re always one step behind. But what if there was a smarter way to stay ahead—without adding more work or stress? Join The Hacker News and … Read More “[Webinar] Learn How Leading Security Teams Reduce Attack Surface Exposure with DASR  – The Hacker News” »

A Russian hacker accused of helping ransomware gangs break into businesses across the United States is set to plead guilty, according to recently filed federal court documents. 25-year-old Aleksey Olegovich Volkov worked as an “initial access broker”, a cybercriminal specialist who focuses on the earliest stage of an attack: gaining the first foothold inside a … Read More “Russian hacker admits helping Yanluowang ransomware infect companies  – Graham Cluley” »

Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for 63 new security vulnerabilities identified in its software, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 63 flaws, four are rated Critical and 59 are rated Important in severity. Twenty-nine of these vulnerabilities are related to privilege escalation, followed by 16 remote code execution, … Read More “Microsoft Fixes 63 Security Flaws, Including a Windows Kernel Zero-Day Under Active Attack  – The Hacker News” »

If you manage Facebook advertising for a small or medium-sized business, open your inbox with suspicion, because attackers…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Active Directory remains the authentication backbone for over 90% of Fortune 1000 companies. AD’s importance has grown as companies adopt hybrid and cloud infrastructure, but so has its complexity. Every application, user, and device traces back to AD for authentication and authorization, making it the ultimate target. For attackers, it represents the holy grail: compromise Active  … Read More “Active Directory Under Siege: Why Critical Infrastructure Needs Stronger Security  – The Hacker News” »

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new privacy-enhancing technology called Private AI Compute to process artificial intelligence (AI) queries in a secure platform in the cloud. The company said it has built Private AI Compute to “unlock the full speed and power of Gemini cloud models for AI experiences, while ensuring your personal data stays private … Read More “Google Launches ‘Private AI Compute’ — Secure AI Processing with On-Device-Level Privacy  – The Hacker News” »

In 2025, account takeover (ATO) attacks are a significant – and growing – cybersecurity threat, especially in the…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Cl0p ransomware lists NHS UK as a victim days after The Washington Post confirms a major Oracle E-Business breach linked to CVE-2025-61882.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Microsoft addressed 63 vulnerabilities affecting its underlying systems and core products, including one actively exploited zero-day, the company said in its latest monthly security update.  The zero-day vulnerability — CVE-2025-62215 — affects the Windows Kernel and has a CVSS rating of 7.0 due to a high attack complexity, according to Microsoft. Exploitation, which could allow … Read More “Microsoft Patch Tuesday addresses 63 defects, including one actively exploited zero-day  – CyberScoop” »

Amazon became the latest company to open its large language models to outside security researchers, announcing the creation of a new bug bounty program for the tech giant’s AI tools. The program will allow select third-party researchers and academic teams to prod NOVA, Amazon’s suite of foundational AI models and receive compensation for their findings. … Read More “Amazon rolls out AI bug bounty program   – CyberScoop” »