Cybersecurity News from Across the Internet
Imagine this: Sarah from accounting gets what looks like a routine password reset email from your organization’s cloud provider. She clicks the link, types in her credentials, and goes back to her spreadsheet. But unknown to her, she’s just made a big mistake. Sarah just accidentally handed over her login details to cybercriminals who are … Read More “Enterprise Credentials at Risk – Same Old, Same Old? – The Hacker News” »
Google on Thursday said it’s rolling out a dedicated form to allow businesses listed on Google Maps to report extortion attempts made by threat actors who post inauthentic bad reviews on the platform and demand ransoms to remove the negative comments. The approach is designed to tackle a common practice called review bombing, where online … Read More “Google Launches New Maps Feature to Help Businesses Report Review-Based Extortion Attempts – The Hacker News” »
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic ransomware capabilities that appears to be created with the help of artificial intelligence – in other words, vibe-coded. Secure Annex researcher John Tuckner, who flagged the extension “susvsex,” said it does not attempt to hide its malicious functionality. The extension was … Read More “Vibe-Coded Malicious VS Code Extension Found with Built-In Ransomware Capabilities – The Hacker News” »
Account takeover (ATO) attacks can devastate individuals and organisations, from personal profiles to enterprise systems. The financial impact… – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
A federal agency that supplies budget and economic information to Congress has suffered a cybersecurity incident, reportedly at the hands of a suspected foreign party. A spokesperson for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) acknowledged the incident Thursday after The Washington Post reported that the office was hacked, with the attackers potentially accessing communications between lawmakers … Read More “Agency that provides budget data to Congress hit with security incident – CyberScoop” »
South Korean police have uncovered a hacking operation that stole sensitive data from massage parlours and blackmailed their male clientele. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. – Read More – Graham Cluley
Critical infrastructure is once again in the spotlight, as it is revealed that several UK water suppliers have reported cybersecurity incidents over the last two years. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. – Read More – Graham Cluley
Seven vulnerabilities in ChatGPT (including GPT-5) allow attackers to use ‘0-click’ and ‘memory injection’ to bypass safety features and persistently steal private user data and chat history. Tenable Research exposes the flaws. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
SonicWall said a state-sponsored threat actor was behind the brute-force attack that exposed firewall configuration files of every customer that used the company’s cloud backup service. The vendor pinned the responsibility for the attack on an undisclosed nation state Tuesday, after Mandiant concluded its investigation into the incident. SonicWall did not attribute the attack to … Read More “SonicWall pins attack on customer portal to undisclosed nation-state – CyberScoop” »
Cisco on Wednesday disclosed that it became aware of a new attack variant that’s designed to target devices running Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software releases that are susceptible to CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362. “This attack can cause unpatched devices to unexpectedly reload, leading to denial-of-service … Read More “Cisco Warns of New Firewall Attack Exploiting CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362 – The Hacker News” »
A previously unknown threat activity cluster has been observed impersonating Slovak cybersecurity company ESET as part of phishing attacks targeting Ukrainian entities. The campaign, detected in May 2025, is tracked by the security outfit under the moniker InedibleOchotense, describing it as Russia-aligned. “InedibleOchotense sent spear-phishing emails and Signal text messages, containing a link – Read … Read More “Trojanized ESET Installers Drop Kalambur Backdoor in Phishing Attacks on Ukraine – The Hacker News” »
Doctor Web uncovers a targeted cyberattack on a Russian government body by the Cavalry Werewolf group using a new ShellNET backdoor and Telegram-based control. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
Finding the right partner is less about headcount and more about repeatable outcomes, which is why the profiles… – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
Cybercrime has stopped being a problem of just the internet — it’s becoming a problem of the real world. Online scams now fund organized crime, hackers rent violence like a service, and even trusted apps or social platforms are turning into attack vectors. The result is a global system where every digital weakness can be … Read More “ThreatsDay Bulletin: AI Tools in Malware, Botnets, GDI Flaws, Election Attacks & More – The Hacker News” »
Introduction Financial institutions are facing a new reality: cyber-resilience has passed from being a best practice, to an operational necessity, to a prescriptive regulatory requirement. Crisis management or Tabletop exercises, for a long time relatively rare in the context of cybersecurity, have become required as a series of regulations has introduced this requirement to FSI … Read More “From Tabletop to Turnkey: Building Cyber Resilience in Financial Services – The Hacker News” »
Time itself comes under attack as a state-backed hacking gang spends two years tunnelling toward a nation’s master clock — with chaos potentially only a tick away. Plus when ransomware negotiators turn to the dark side, what could possibly go wrong? All this and more is discussed in episode 442 of the “Smashing Security” podcast … Read More “Smashing Security podcast #442: The hack that messed with time, and rogue ransom where negotiators – Graham Cluley” »
Bitdefender has once again been recognized as a Representative Vendor in the Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response (MDR) — marking the fourth consecutive year of inclusion. According to Gartner, more than 600 providers globally claim to deliver MDR services, yet only a select few meet the criteria to appear in the Market … Read More “Bitdefender Named a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response – The Hacker News” »
The threat actor known as Curly COMrades has been observed exploiting virtualization technologies as a way to bypass security solutions and execute custom malware. According to a new report from Bitdefender, the adversary is said to have enabled the Hyper-V role on selected victim systems to deploy a minimalistic, Alpine Linux-based virtual machine. “This hidden … Read More “Hackers Weaponize Windows Hyper-V to Hide Linux VM and Evade EDR Detection – The Hacker News” »
SonicWall has formally implicated state-sponsored threat actors as behind the September security breach that led to the unauthorized exposure of firewall configuration backup files. “The malicious activity – carried out by a state-sponsored threat actor – was isolated to the unauthorized access of cloud backup files from a specific cloud environment using an API call,” … Read More “SonicWall Confirms State-Sponsored Hackers Behind September Cloud Backup Breach – The Hacker News” »
For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently requested websites. Cloudflare responded by redacting Aisuru domain names from their top websites list. The chief executive at Cloudflare says Aisuru’s overlords are using the botnet to boost … Read More “Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List – Krebs on Security” »
Nikkei confirms breach after a virus infected an employee PC, exposing 17,368 names and Slack chat histories. The media giant reported the incident voluntarily. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
Congressional leaders are pressing federal agencies to provide more information on their plans to compete with China on a range of tech and cybersecurity issues, including a strategy for promoting American 6G telecommunications infrastructure and limiting Chinese tech in US supply chains. Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., ranking member on the House Select Committee on the … Read More “Congressional leaders want an executive branch strategy on China 6G, tech supply chain – CyberScoop” »
A federal judge has reimposed a sentence on Paige Thompson, the former Amazon Web Services engineer convicted in the 2019 Capital One data breach that compromised the personal information of more than 100 million people. U.S. District Judge Robert Lasnik sentenced Thompson to time served, plus five years of supervised release with three years of … Read More “Court reimposes original sentence for Capital One hacker – CyberScoop” »
When a pair of high-profile internet outages took down large chunks of the internet last month, the events briefly brought hundreds of organizations to a near-halt and prevented millions of users from accessing core services for everyday business needs. From Starbucks to crypto exchanges to the messaging app Signal, the outages rippled across nearly every … Read More “With each cloud outage, calls for government action grow louder – CyberScoop” »
When a pair of high-profile internet outages took down large chunks of the internet last month, the events briefly brought hundreds of organizations to a near-halt and prevented millions of users from accessing core services for everyday business needs. From Starbucks to crypto exchanges to the messaging app Signal, the outages rippled across nearly every … Read More “With each cloud outage, calls for government action grow louder – CyberScoop” »
A Commerce Department office should investigate Chinese government-connected products in more than a dozen emerging industries for security threats, a group of House GOP committee leaders said in a letter they released Wednesday. In the missive, the lawmakers said the Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services has the power to both investigate and … Read More “House GOP leaders seek government probe, restrictions on Chinese-made tech – CyberScoop” »
Private markets used to operate behind closed doors, exclusive, informal, and built on personal connections more than structure.… – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
JFrog researchers found a critical RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-11953) in the popular React Native CLI. Developers using versions 4.8.0-20.0.0-alpha.2 must update to patch the flaw. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
Private markets used to operate behind closed doors, exclusive, informal, and built on personal connections more than structure.… – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday imposed sanctions against eight individuals and two entities within North Korea’s global financial network for laundering money for various illicit schemes, including cybercrime and information technology (IT) worker fraud. “North Korean state-sponsored hackers steal and launder money to fund the regime’s nuclear weapons program,” said Under Secretary of – … Read More “U.S. Sanctions 10 North Korean Entities for Laundering $12.7M in Crypto and IT Fraud – The Hacker News” »
Behind every alert is an analyst; tired eyes scanning dashboards, long nights spent on false positives, and the constant fear of missing something big. It’s no surprise that many SOCs face burnout before they face their next breach. But this doesn’t have to be the norm. The path out isn’t through working harder, but through … Read More “Why SOC Burnout Can Be Avoided: Practical Steps – The Hacker News” »
Google on Wednesday said it discovered an unknown threat actor using an experimental Visual Basic Script (VB Script) malware dubbed PROMPTFLUX that interacts with its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) model API to write its own source code for improved obfuscation and evasion. “PROMPTFLUX is written in VBScript and interacts with Gemini’s API to request specific … Read More “Google Uncovers PROMPTFLUX Malware That Uses Gemini AI to Rewrite Its Code Hourly – The Hacker News” »
Norton finds a flaw in the new Midnight ransomware built from Babuk code and releases a free decryptor to help victims recover files without paying a ransom. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new set of vulnerabilities impacting OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that could be exploited by an attacker to steal personal information from users’ memories and chat histories without their knowledge. The seven vulnerabilities and attack techniques, according to Tenable, were found in OpenAI’s GPT-4o and GPT-5 models. OpenAI has … Read More “Researchers Find ChatGPT Vulnerabilities That Let Attackers Trick AI Into Leaking Data – The Hacker News” »
The federal cybersecurity system is weathering a series of crises that couldn’t have arrived at a worse time. The F5 security breach from Oct. 15, the proposed elimination of more than 1,000 jobs at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the ongoing federal government shutdown have created a perfect storm that is not … Read More “How the F5 breach, CISA job cuts, and a government shutdown are eroding U.S. cyber readiness – CyberScoop” »
New AWS report data reveals the top four security failure points in the cloud, including vulnerability exploitation (24%)… – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
Raise your hand if you’ve heard the myth, “Android isn’t secure.” Android phones, such as the Samsung Galaxy, unlock new ways of working. But, as an IT admin, you may worry about the security—after all, work data is critical. However, outdated concerns can hold your business back from unlocking its full potential. The truth is, … Read More “Securing the Open Android Ecosystem with Samsung Knox – The Hacker News” »
Microsoft Teams vulnerabilities let attackers impersonate users, edit chat history, and spoof calls before Microsoft issued security fixes in late 2025. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
A never-before-seen threat activity cluster codenamed UNK_SmudgedSerpent has been attributed as behind a set of cyber attacks targeting academics and foreign policy experts between June and August 2025, coinciding with heightened geopolitical tensions between Iran and Israel. “UNK_SmudgedSerpent leveraged domestic political lures, including societal change in Iran and investigation into the – Read More – … Read More “Mysterious ‘SmudgedSerpent’ Hackers Target U.S. Policy Experts Amid Iran–Israel Tensions – The Hacker News” »
The marketplace revolution is here, and it’s transforming how we buy, sell, and share everything from vintage furniture… – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two security flaws impacting Gladinet and Control Web Panel (CWP) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-11371 (CVSS score: 7.5) – A vulnerability in files or directories … Read More “CISA Adds Gladinet and CWP Flaws to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation Evidence – The Hacker News” »
Google Chrome browser’s new enhanced autofill feature can now remember and automatically fill in personal data such as… – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
Apple disclosed an exceptionally high number of vulnerabilities in core services and components used across its most popular devices, as the tech giant addressed 105 vulnerabilities in MacOS 26.1 and 56 vulnerabilities with the release of iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1. The company’s latest security update includes some flaws that affect software spanning iPhones, Macs … Read More “Apple addresses more than 100 vulnerabilities in security updates for iPhones, Macs and iPads – CyberScoop” »
The Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes to fund North Korean government objectives. According to the department, over the last three years North Korea-linked cybercriminals have stolen over $3 billion, mostly in cryptocurrency. In addition, it said, North Korean … Read More “North Korean companies, people sanctioned for money laundering from cybercrime, IT worker schemes – CyberScoop” »
The nascent collective that combines three prominent cybercrime groups, Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters, has created no less than 16 Telegram channels since August 8, 2025. “Since its debut, the group’s Telegram channels have been removed and recreated at least 16 times under varying iterations of the original name – a recurring cycle reflecting platform … Read More “A Cybercrime Merger Like No Other — Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters Join Forces – The Hacker News” »
Microsoft researchers found the SesameOp backdoor using OpenAI’s Assistants API for remote access, data theft, and command communication. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, Tech, AI, Crypto and More
Bugcrowd, a company known for its work in bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure, has announced the acquisition of Mayhem Security, an AI-driven offensive security firm. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Organizations are dealing with more complicated cybersecurity risks as they build software faster, add more APIs, and work with many suppliers. Traditional … Read More “Bugcrowd acquires Mayhem Security to advance AI-powered security testing – CyberScoop” »
Nine people have been arrested in connection with a coordinated law enforcement operation that targeted a cryptocurrency money laundering network that defrauded victims of €600 million (~$688 million). According to a statement released by Eurojust today, the action took place between October 27 and 29 across Cyprus, Spain, and Germany, with the suspects arrested on … Read More “Europol and Eurojust Dismantle €600 Million Crypto Fraud Network in Global Sweep – The Hacker News” »
Details have emerged about a now-patched critical security flaw in the popular “@react-native-community/cli” npm package that could be potentially exploited to run malicious operating system (OS) commands under certain conditions. “The vulnerability allows remote unauthenticated attackers to easily trigger arbitrary OS command execution on the machine running react-native-community/cli’s – Read More – The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of four security flaws in Microsoft Teams that could have exposed users to serious impersonation and social engineering attacks. The vulnerabilities “allowed attackers to manipulate conversations, impersonate colleagues, and exploit notifications,” Check Point said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Following responsible disclosure in March – Read More … Read More “Microsoft Teams Bugs Let Attackers Impersonate Colleagues and Edit Messages Unnoticed – The Hacker News” »
