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While authorities add new technologies and teams in their attempt to thwart cybercriminals, the stats are showing that in South Africa at least 50% of individuals polled have experienced some form of cybercrime; and the numbers continue to grow. The volume of internet users in South Africa is increasing and with this digital transformation threat … Read More “Threat Actors Continue to Attack South Africa in Cybercrime  – Da Vinci Cybersecurity: Leading Cyber Security Services in South Africa.” »

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical flaw impacting ASUS Live Update to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59374 (CVSS score: 9.3), has been described as an “embedded malicious code vulnerability” introduced by means of a supply chain compromise  … Read More “CISA Flags Critical ASUS Live Update Flaw After Evidence of Active Exploitation  – The Hacker News” »

Cisco has alerted users of a maximum-severity zero-day flaw in Cisco AsyncOS software that has been actively exploited by a China-nexus advanced persistent threat (APT) actor codenamed UAT-9686 in attacks targeting Cisco Secure Email Gateway and Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager. The networking equipment major said it became aware of the intrusion campaign on … Read More “Cisco Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting Unpatched 0-Day in AsyncOS Email Security Appliances  – The Hacker News” »

France confirms a cyberattack on its Interior Ministry as a 22-year-old is arrested. Hacker claims access to police, tax, and criminal record systems.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

Think your Kindle is harmless? Think again! In this episode, we unpack a Black Hat Europe talk revealing how a boobytrapped audiobook could exploit the Amazon eBook reader – potentially letting an attacker break into your account and seize control of your credit card. Plus a blast from 2021’s “summer of ransomware” returns to haunt … Read More “Smashing Security podcast #448: The Kindle that got pwned  – Graham Cluley” »

Many crypto investors remain sceptical about using AI in their trading. They are aware that the technology exists,…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

Fallout from React2Shell — a stubborn vulnerability that impacts wide swaths of the internet’s scaffolding — continues to spread as public exploits and stealth backdoors proliferate and worrying details emerge about the targets attackers are pursuing.  Threat researchers and incident responders are reacting to swift-moving developments on React2Shell with mounting concern. Cybercriminals, ransomware gangs and … Read More “React2Shell fallout spreads to sensitive targets as public exploits hit all-time high  – CyberScoop” »

Federal prosecutors in Michigan say they have dismantled online infrastructure tied to an alleged money laundering operation that moved tens of millions of dollars in proceeds from ransomware and other cybercrime, along with indicting the service’s creator. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced a coordinated action with international partners and … Read More “DOJ announces takedown of alleged laundering platform used by cybercriminal groups  – CyberScoop” »

A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf has enlisted a massive army of no less than 1.8 million infected devices comprising Android-based TVs, set-top boxes, and tablets, and may be associated with another botnet known as AISURU, according to findings from QiAnXin XLab. “Kimwolf is a botnet compiled using the NDK [Native Development … Read More “Kimwolf Botnet Hijacks 1.8 Million Android TVs, Launches Large-Scale DDoS Attacks  – The Hacker News” »

ReversingLabs discovers 14 malicious NuGet packages, including Netherеum.All, using homoglyphs and fake downloads to steal crypto wallets and Google Ads data.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

SonicWall has rolled out fixes to address a security flaw in Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-40602 (CVSS score: 6.6), concerns a case of local privilege escalation that arises as a result of insufficient authorization in the appliance management … Read More “SonicWall Fixes Actively Exploited CVE-2025-40602 in SMA 100 Appliances  – The Hacker News” »

Researchers at Point Wild have discovered a new ClickFix attack campaign that tricks users into manually installing DarkGate malware via fake browser extension alerts. Learn how this attack bypasses security by using the Windows Run box and how you can stay safe.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

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The threat actor linked to Operation ForumTroll has been attributed to a fresh set of phishing attacks targeting individuals within Russia, according to Kaspersky. The Russian cybersecurity vendor said it detected the new activity in October 2025. The origins of the threat actor are presently unknown. “While the spring cyberattacks focused on organizations, the fall … Read More “New ForumTroll Phishing Attacks Target Russian Scholars Using Fake eLibrary Emails  – The Hacker News” »

The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 has been attributed to what has been described as a “sustained” credential-harvesting campaign targeting users of UKR[.]net, a webmail and news service popular in Ukraine. The activity, observed by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group between June 2024 and April 2025, builds upon prior findings from the cybersecurity company … Read More “APT28 Targets Ukrainian UKR-net Users in Long-Running Credential Phishing Campaign  – The Hacker News” »

Cybercriminal group ShinyHunters targets former Pornhub Premium users in a massive 94GB data extortion campaign. Learn about the stolen data details, the involvement of a smishing attack, and the conflicting reports on the breach.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

The threat actor known as Jewelbug has been increasingly focusing on government targets in Europe since July 2025, even as it continues to attack entities located in Southeast Asia and South America. Check Point Research is tracking the cluster under the name Ink Dragon. It’s also referenced by the broader cybersecurity community under the names … Read More “China-Linked Ink Dragon Hacks Governments Using ShadowPad and FINALDRAFT Malware  – The Hacker News” »

The threat actor known as Jewelbug has been increasingly focusing on government targets in Europe since July 2025, even as it continues to attack entities located in Southeast Asia and South America. Check Point Research is tracking the cluster under the name Ink Dragon. It’s also referenced by the broader cybersecurity community under the names … Read More “China-Linked Ink Dragon Hacks Governments Using ShadowPad and FINALDRAFT Malware  – The Hacker News” »

Modern security teams often feel like they’re driving through fog with failing headlights. Threats accelerate, alerts multiply, and SOCs struggle to understand which dangers matter right now for their business. Breaking out of reactive defense is no longer optional. It’s the difference between preventing incidents and cleaning up after them. Below is the path from … Read More “Fix SOC Blind Spots: See Threats to Your Industry & Country in Real Time  – The Hacker News” »

Modern security teams often feel like they’re driving through fog with failing headlights. Threats accelerate, alerts multiply, and SOCs struggle to understand which dangers matter right now for their business. Breaking out of reactive defense is no longer optional. It’s the difference between preventing incidents and cleaning up after them. Below is the path from … Read More “Fix SOC Blind Spots: See Threats to Your Industry & Country in Real Time  – The Hacker News” »

If you’re planning a cruise for your holidays, and cannot bear the idea of being parted from your Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, you may want to avoid sailing with MSC Cruises. The cruise line has updated its list of prohibited items, specifically banning smart glasses and similar wearable devices from public areas. Read more in … Read More “Surveillance at sea: Cruise firm bans smart glasses to curb covert recording  – Graham Cluley” »

A new campaign named GhostPoster has leveraged logo files associated with 17 Mozilla Firefox browser add-ons to embed malicious JavaScript code designed to hijack affiliate links, inject tracking code, and commit click and ad fraud. The extensions have been collectively downloaded over 50,000 times, according to Koi Security, which discovered the campaign. The add-ons are … Read More “GhostPoster Malware Found in 17 Firefox Add-ons with 50,000+ Downloads  – The Hacker News” »

The Federal Trade Commission is ordering a company that publicly touted its cybersecurity capabilities to return recovered funds to victims and implement security reforms, after a software flaw let hackers steal hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from users. The FTC announced it had reached a settlement with Illusory Systems, which also does business … Read More “Illusory Systems settles with FTC over 2022 cryptocurrency hack  – CyberScoop” »

SoundCloud confirms a breach affecting an estimated 20% of users, resulting in stolen email addresses. The company is dealing with follow-up DoS attacks by unnamed attackers while media reports allege involvement of ShinyHunters.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

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Amazon Threat Intelligence reports Russian GRU hackers are increasingly breaking into critical infrastructure by abusing misconfigured devices instead of exploiting software vulnerabilities.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

With a little more than a month left before a foundational cyber threat information sharing law expires for a second time, Congress might have to do another short-term extension as negotiations on a longer deal aren’t yet bearing fruit, a key lawmaker said Tuesday. House Homeland Security Chairman Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., said the problem with … Read More “Key lawmaker says Congress likely to kick can down road on cyber information sharing law  – CyberScoop” »

An ongoing campaign has been observed targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers using compromised Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to enable cryptocurrency mining. The activity, first detected by Amazon’s GuardDuty managed threat detection service and its automated security monitoring systems on November 2, 2025, employs never-before-seen persistence techniques to hamper  – Read More  – … Read More “Compromised IAM Credentials Power a Large AWS Crypto Mining Campaign  – The Hacker News” »

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-34352) found by XM Cyber in the JumpCloud Remote Assist for Windows agent allows local users to gain full SYSTEM privileges. Businesses must update to version 0.317.0 or later immediately to patch the high-severity flaw.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious NuGet package that typosquats and impersonates the popular .NET tracing library and its author to sneak in a cryptocurrency wallet stealer. The malicious package, named “Tracer.Fody.NLog,” remained on the repository for nearly six years. It was published by a user named “csnemess” on February 26, 2020. It masquerades … Read More “Rogue NuGet Package Poses as Tracer.Fody, Steals Cryptocurrency Wallet Data  – The Hacker News” »

Attackers associated with Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) have targeted Western-based critical infrastructure with a special focus on the energy sector as part of an ongoing campaign dating back to 2021, Amazon Threat Intelligence said in a report Monday.  The threat group simplified operations earlier this year by shifting away from vulnerability exploitation to focus … Read More “Amazon warns that Russia’s Sandworm has shifted its tactics  – CyberScoop” »

In episode 81 of The AI Fix, Graham discovers that deepfakes are already marking your kids’ homework, while Mark glimpses the future when he discovers AI agents that can communicate by reading each other’s minds. Also in this episode, a Chinese robot called Miro U proves six arms are better than two; Mark discovers a … Read More “The AI Fix #81: ChatGPT is the last AI you’ll understand, and your teacher is a deepfake  – Graham Cluley” »

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 16th December 2025, CyberNewsWire  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired or dormant domain names, or common misspellings of popular websites — are now configured to redirect visitors to … Read More “Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content  – Krebs on Security” »

A Google Chrome extension with a “Featured” badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots like OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Meta AI, and Perplexity. The extension in question is Urban VPN Proxy, which has a 4.7 … Read More “Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users’ AI Chats  – The Hacker News” »

Amazon’s threat intelligence team has disclosed details of a “years-long” Russian state-sponsored campaign that targeted Western critical infrastructure between 2021 and 2025. Targets of the campaign included energy sector organizations across Western nations, critical infrastructure providers in North America and Europe, and entities with cloud-hosted network infrastructure. The activity has  – Read More  – The … Read More “Amazon Exposes Years-Long GRU Cyber Campaign Targeting Energy and Cloud Infrastructure  – The Hacker News” »

AI-assisted coding and AI app generation platforms have created an unprecedented surge in software development. Companies are now facing rapid growth in both the number of applications and the pace of change within those applications. Security and privacy teams are under significant pressure as the surface area they must cover is expanding quickly while their … Read More “Why Data Security and Privacy Need to Start in Code  – The Hacker News” »

US auto loan service 700Credit confirms a data breach exposed names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of dealership customers. Free credit monitoring is offered.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

Threat actors have begun to exploit two newly disclosed security flaws in Fortinet FortiGate devices, less than a week after public disclosure. Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf said it observed active intrusions involving malicious single sign-on (SSO) logins on FortiGate appliances on December 12, 2025. The attacks exploit two critical authentication bypasses (CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719  – … Read More “Fortinet FortiGate Under Active Attack Through SAML SSO Authentication Bypass  – The Hacker News” »

The security vulnerability known as React2Shell is being exploited by threat actors to deliver malware families like KSwapDoor and ZnDoor, according to findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and NTT Security. “KSwapDoor is a professionally engineered remote access tool designed with stealth in mind,” Justin Moore, senior manager of threat intel research at Palo … Read More “React2Shell Vulnerability Actively Exploited to Deploy Linux Backdoors  – The Hacker News” »

Google has announced that it’s discontinuing its dark web report tool in February 2026, less than two years after it was launched as a way for users to monitor if their personal information is found on the dark web. To that end, scans for new dark web breaches will be stopped on January 15, 2026, … Read More “Google to Shut Down Dark Web Monitoring Tool in February 2026  – The Hacker News” »

Opexus admits it missed key red flags when it hired twins Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, as it failed to learn about crimes the brothers pleaded guilty to in 2015, including wire fraud and conspiring to hack into the State Department — offenses committed while they were contractors for federal agencies. The federal government contractor nonetheless … Read More “Opexus claims background checks missed red flags on twins accused of insider breach  – CyberScoop” »

The American Bar Association believes the use of artificial intelligence in the legal sector is eroding key procedures, documentary records and evidence relied on to establish ground-level truth in the court system. In a report released this month the ABA, which sets ethical standards for the legal profession and oversees the accreditation of roughly 400,000 … Read More “AI is causing all kinds of problems in the legal sector   – CyberScoop” »

Opexus admits it missed key red flags when it hired twins Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, as it failed to learn about crimes the brothers pleaded guilty to in 2015, including wire fraud and conspiring to hack into the State Department — offenses committed while they were contractors for federal agencies. The federal government contractor nonetheless … Read More “Opexus claims background checks missed red flags on twins accused of insider breach  – CyberScoop” »

A GitHub repository posing as a vulnerability scanner for CVE-2025-55182, also referred to as “React2Shell,” was exposed as…  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

New report by Unit 42 reveals the Hamas-linked Ashen Lepus (WIRTE) group is using the AshTag malware suite to target Middle Eastern diplomatic and government entities with advanced, hidden tactics.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

Cybersecurity researchers discovered an unsecured 16TB database exposing 4.3 billion professional records, including names, emails, and LinkedIn data. Learn what happened, why this massive data leak enables new scams, and how to protect your PII.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform FreePBX, including a critical flaw that could result in an authentication bypass under certain configurations. The shortcomings, discovered by Horizon3.ai and reported to the project maintainers on September 15, 2025, are listed below – CVE-2025-61675 (CVSS score: 8.6) – Numerous  – … Read More “FreePBX Patches Critical SQLi, File-Upload, and AUTHTYPE Bypass Flaws Enabling RCE  – The Hacker News” »

South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang faces intense scrutiny after CEO Park Dae-jun resigns over a data breach that exposed 33.7 million customer accounts. Read about the police raids, US lawsuit, and regulatory orders from PIPC.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More