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Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter were arrested in Alexandria, Va., Wednesday for allegedly stealing and destroying government data held by a government contractor minutes after they were fired from the company earlier this year, the Justice Department said. Prosecutors accuse the 34-year-old brothers of the crimes during a weeklong spree in February, compromising data … Read More “Twins with hacking history charged in insider data breach affecting multiple federal agencies  – CyberScoop” »

Cybersecurity today is about a lot more than just firewalls and antivirus software. As organisations adopt cloud computing,…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a critical ChatGPT Atlas browser attack, confirming the danger of the ongoing surge in the ClickFix threat.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It allows “unauthenticated remote code execution by exploiting a flaw in how React decodes payloads sent to React Server Function endpoints,” the … Read More “Critical RSC Bugs in React and Next.js Allow Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution  – The Hacker News” »

Security researchers and code developers are scrambling to patch and investigate a critical vulnerability affecting React Server Components, an open-source library used widely across the internet and embedded into many essential software frameworks. The rapid response underscores the potential consequences of exploitation. Although no attacks have been observed or reported, researchers expect them soon and … Read More “Developers scramble as critical React flaw threatens major apps  – CyberScoop” »

A critical security flaw impacting a WordPress plugin known as King Addons for Elementor has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-8489 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of privilege escalation that allows unauthenticated attackers to grant themselves administrative privileges by simply specifying the administrator user role during registration. It affects versions  … Read More “WordPress King Addons Flaw Under Active Attack Lets Hackers Make Admin Accounts  – The Hacker News” »

Microsoft has silently plugged a security flaw that has been exploited by several threat actors since 2017 as part of the company’s November 2025 Patch Tuesday updates, according to ACROS Security’s 0patch. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-9491 (CVSS score: 7.8/7.0), which has been described as a Windows Shortcut (LNK) file UI misinterpretation vulnerability that … Read More “Microsoft Silently Patches Windows LNK Flaw After Years of Active Exploitation  – The Hacker News” »

Guide to scale ready code security with event driven scans unified data and API first design for large teams seeking strong growth aligned control.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

The threat actor known as Water Saci is actively evolving its tactics, switching to a sophisticated, highly layered infection chain that uses HTML Application (HTA) files and PDFs to propagate a worm that deploys a banking trojan via WhatsApp in attacks targeting users in Brazil. The latest wave is characterized by the attackers shifting from … Read More “Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Fraud  – The Hacker News” »

Remember when phishing emails were easy to spot? Bad grammar, weird formatting, and requests from a “Prince” in a distant country? Those days are over. Today, a 16-year-old with zero coding skills and a $200 allowance can launch a campaign that rivals state-sponsored hackers. They don’t need to be smart; they just need to subscribe … Read More “Discover the AI Tools Fueling the Next Cybercrime Wave — Watch the Webinar  – The Hacker News” »

Smarter SOC performance with faster triage, proactive defence, and a unified stack powered by instant alert context from ANY.RUN to cut MTTD and MTTR.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Koi Security exposes ShadyPanda, a group that used trusted Chrome/Edge extensions to infect 4.3 million users over 7 years for deep surveillance and corporate espionage.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Most people know the story of Paul Bunyan. A giant lumberjack, a trusted axe, and a challenge from a machine that promised to outpace him. Paul doubled down on his old way of working, swung harder, and still lost by a quarter inch. His mistake was not losing the contest. His mistake was assuming that … Read More “Chopping AI Down to Size: Turning Disruptive Technology into a Strategic Advantage  – The Hacker News” »

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Rust package that’s capable of targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, and features malicious functionality to stealthily execute on developer machines by masquerading as an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) unit helper tool. The Rust crate, named “evm-units,” was uploaded to crates.io in mid-April 2025 by a user named “ablerust,”  … Read More “Malicious Rust Crate Delivers OS-Specific Malware to Web3 Developer Systems  – The Hacker News” »

Three critical security flaws have been disclosed in an open-source utility called Picklescan that could allow malicious actors to execute arbitrary code by loading untrusted PyTorch models, effectively bypassing the tool’s protections. Picklescan, developed and maintained by Matthieu Maitre (@mmaitre314), is a security scanner that’s designed to parse Python pickle files and detect suspicious  – … Read More “Picklescan Bugs Allow Malicious PyTorch Models to Evade Scans and Execute Code  – The Hacker News” »

In episode 79 of The AI Fix, Gemini 3 roasts the competition, scares Nvidia, and can’t remember what year it is. Meanwhile, Graham investigates a fight between a fridge and robot, and Mark discovers that poetry could be a universal jailbreak for LLMs. Also in this episode, our hosts ponder whether Mark Zuckerberg’s underground bunker … Read More “The AI Fix #79: Gemini 3, poetry jailbreaks, and do we even need safe robots?  – Graham Cluley” »

Asahi Group Holdings, the makers of the popular Japanese beer Asahi Super Dry, has confirmed that the ransomware attack that disrupted its operations in late September also saw a significant data breach that affects more than 1.5 million customers and approximately 275,000 current and former employees and their families. Read more in my article on … Read More “Asahi cyber attack spirals into massive data breach impacting almost 2 million people  – Graham Cluley” »

When news broke approximately a year ago that Chinese hackers had systemically penetrated at least nine major U.S. communications networks, the level of alarm from policymakers was clear.   At a hearing held Tuesday by the Senate Committee on Commerce, experts offered differing assessments of the threat. While intelligence officials have characterized the Salt Typhoon operation’s … Read More “The Congressional remedy for Salt Typhoon? More information sharing with industry  – CyberScoop” »

Everest ransomware group claims it breached ASUS, stealing over 1TB of data including camera source code. ASUS has been given 21 hours to respond via Qtox.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

A House Republican introduced legislation Tuesday aimed at deterring cyberattacks against the United States at a time when the Trump administration is prioritizing the punishment of malicious hackers. Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, revived legislation he first sponsored in 2022, the Cyber Deterrence and Response Act. The legislation would direct the executive branch to formally designate … Read More “Legislation would designate ‘critical cyber threat actors,’ direct sanctions against them  – CyberScoop” »

The University of Pennsylvania joined the steadily growing number of victim organizations impacted by the widespread data theft and extortion campaign involving a notorious ransomware group’s exploitation of a zero-day vulnerability and other defects in Oracle E-Business Suite earlier this year.  The university filed a data breach notification in Maine Monday, confirming nearly 1,500 Maine … Read More “University of Pennsylvania joins growing pool of Oracle customers impacted by Clop attacks  – CyberScoop” »

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued directions to app-based communication service providers to ensure that the platforms cannot be used without an active SIM card linked to the user’s mobile number. To that end, messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Arattai, Sharechat, Josh, JioChat, and Signal that use an Indian mobile number for uniquely … Read More “India Orders Messaging Apps to Work Only With Active SIM Cards to Prevent Fraud and Misuse  – The Hacker News” »

North Korean hackers escalated the “Contagious Interview” attack, flooding the npm registry with over 200 malicious packages to install OtterCookie malware. This attack targets blockchain and Web3 developers through fake job interviews and coding tests.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an npm package that attempts to influence artificial intelligence (AI)-driven security scanners. The package in question is eslint-plugin-unicorn-ts-2, which masquerades as a TypeScript extension of the popular ESLint plugin. It was uploaded to the registry by a user named “hamburgerisland” in February 2024. The package has been downloaded  – … Read More “Malicious npm Package Uses Hidden Prompt and Script to Evade AI Security Tools  – The Hacker News” »

The supply chain campaign known as GlassWorm has once again reared its head, infiltrating both Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX with 24 extensions impersonating popular developer tools and frameworks like Flutter, React, Tailwind, Vim, and Vue. GlassWorm was first documented in October 2025, detailing its use of the Solana blockchain for command-and-control (C2) … Read More “GlassWorm Returns with 24 Malicious Extensions Impersonating Popular Developer Tools  – The Hacker News” »

A joint investigation led by Mauro Eldritch, founder of BCA LTD, conducted together with threat-intel initiative NorthScan and ANY.RUN, a solution for interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence, has uncovered one of North Korea’s most persistent infiltration schemes: a network of remote IT workers tied to Lazarus Group’s Famous Chollima division. For the first time, … Read More “Researchers Capture Lazarus APT’s Remote-Worker Scheme Live on Camera  – The Hacker News” »

Israeli entities spanning academia, engineering, local government, manufacturing, technology, transportation, and utilities sectors have emerged as the target of a new set of attacks undertaken by Iranian nation-state actors that have delivered a previously undocumented backdoor called MuddyViper. The activity has been attributed by ESET to a hacking group known as MuddyWater (aka Mango  – … Read More “Iran-Linked Hackers Hits Israeli Sectors with New MuddyViper Backdoor in Targeted Attacks  – The Hacker News” »

Bethesda, USA / Maryland, 2nd December 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Proxyearth is a new site that shows names, Aadhaar numbers, and live locations of users in India using only mobile numbers, raising serious privacy and security concerns.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Baltimore, MD, 2nd December 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Vulnerability management is a core component of every cybersecurity strategy. However, businesses often use thousands of software without realising it (when was the last time you checked?), and keeping track of all the vulnerability alerts, notifications, and updates can be a burden on resources and often leads to missed vulnerabilities.  Taking into account that nearly … Read More “SecAlerts Cuts Through the Noise with a Smarter, Faster Way to Track Vulnerabilities  – The Hacker News” »

Google on Monday released monthly security updates for the Android operating system, including two vulnerabilities that it said have been exploited in the wild. The patch addresses a total of 107 security flaws spanning different components, including Framework, System, Kernel, as well as those from Arm, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, Qualcomm, and Unison. The two high-severity … Read More “Google Patches 107 Android Flaws, Including Two Framework Bugs Exploited in the Wild  – The Hacker News” »

Menlo Park, USA, 2nd December 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Google disclosed two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities Monday, which it addressed among a total of 107 defects in the company’s monthly security update for Android devices. The zero-days — CVE-2025-48633 and CVE-2025-48572 — are both high-severity defects affecting the Android framework, which attackers can exploit to access information and escalate privileges, respectively. Google said both … Read More “Google addresses 107 Android vulnerabilities, including two zero-days  – CyberScoop” »

New York, New York, 1st December 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

European authorities shut down and seized the assets of Cryptomixer, a cryptocurrency mixing service that allegedly facilitated more than $1.5 billion in money laundering for cybercriminals and other illegal activity, Europol said Monday.  The weeklong operation, part of “Operation Olympia,” netted the seizure of nearly $28 million in Bitcoin, three servers in Switzerland, the cryptomixer.io … Read More “Authorities take down Cryptomixer, seize $28M in Switzerland  – CyberScoop” »

Coupang confirms a data breach affecting 33.7 million users in South Korea, exposing names, contacts and order details. Investigation is ongoing.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

A threat actor known as ShadyPanda has been linked to a seven-year-long browser extension campaign that has amassed over 4.3 million installations over time. Five of these extensions started off as legitimate programs before malicious changes were introduced in mid-2024, according to a report from Koi Security, attracting 300,000 installs. These extensions have since been … Read More “ShadyPanda Turns Popular Browser Extensions with 4.3 Million Installs Into Spyware  – The Hacker News” »

India’s telecommunications ministry has reportedly asked major mobile device manufacturers to preload a government-backed cybersecurity app named Sanchar Saathi on all new phones within 90 days. According to a report from Reuters, the app cannot be deleted or disabled from users’ devices. Sanchar Saathi, available on the web and via mobile apps for Android and … Read More “India Orders Phone Makers to Pre-Install Sanchar Saathi App to Tackle Telecom Fraud  – The Hacker News” »

Swiss and German police shut down Cryptomixer, seizing servers, domains and 28M dollars in Bitcoin during an Europol backed action targeting crypto laundering.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

How you choose to store your assets is one of the most important decisions you’ll make when you…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

An Australian man who used fake “evil‑twin” Wi‑Fi networks at airports and on flights to steal travellers’ data has been jailed for 7 years and 4 months.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

Hackers aren’t kicking down the door anymore. They just use the same tools we use every day — code packages, cloud accounts, email, chat, phones, and “trusted” partners — and turn them against us. One bad download can leak your keys. One weak vendor can expose many customers at once. One guest invite, one link … Read More “⚡ Weekly Recap: Hot CVEs, npm Worm Returns, Firefox RCE, M365 Email Raid & More  – The Hacker News” »

The AI browser wars are coming to a desktop near you, and you need to start worrying about their security challenges. For the last two decades, whether you used Chrome, Edge, or Firefox, the fundamental paradigm remained the same: a passive window through which a human user viewed and interacted with the internet. That era … Read More “Webinar: The “Agentic” Trojan Horse: Why the New AI Browsers War is a Nightmare for Security Teams  – The Hacker News” »

A new Android malware named Albiriox has been advertised under a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) model to offer a “full spectrum” of features to facilitate on-device fraud (ODF), screen manipulation, and real-time interaction with infected devices. The malware embeds a hard-coded list comprising over 400 applications spanning banking, financial technology, payment processors, cryptocurrency  – Read More  – … Read More “New Albiriox MaaS Malware Targets 400+ Apps for On-Device Fraud and Screen Control  – The Hacker News” »

Claymont, Delaware, 1st December 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

The threat actor known as Tomiris has been attributed to attacks targeting foreign ministries, intergovernmental organizations, and government entities in Russia with an aim to establish remote access and deploy additional tools. “These attacks highlight a notable shift in Tomiris’s tactics, namely the increased use of implants that leverage public services (e.g., Telegram and Discord) … Read More “Tomiris Shifts to Public-Service Implants for Stealthier C2 in Attacks on Government Targets  – The Hacker News” »

CloudSEK found over 2,000 fake sites impersonating Amazon and top brands before Cyber Monday and Black Friday. Learn the key fraud signs now to stay safe.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More 

New API capabilities and AI-powered Threat Encyclopedia eliminate manual audit preparation, providing real-time compliance evidence and instant threat intelligence.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More