Cybersecurity News from Across the Internet
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” »
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
In early December 2025, security researchers exposed a cybercrime campaign that had quietly hijacked popular Chrome and Edge browser extensions on a massive scale. A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda spent seven years playing the long game, publishing or acquiring harmless extensions, letting them run clean for years to build trust and gain millions of installs, … Read More “A Browser Extension Risk Guide After the ShadyPanda Campaign – The Hacker News” »
If you use a smartphone, browse the web, or unzip files on your computer, you are in the crosshairs this week. Hackers are currently exploiting critical flaws in the daily software we all rely on—and in some cases, they started attacking before a fix was even ready. Below, we list the urgent updates you need … Read More “⚡ Weekly Recap: Apple 0-Days, WinRAR Exploit, LastPass Fines, .NET RCE, OAuth Scams & More – The Hacker News” »
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active phishing campaign that’s targeting a wide range of sectors in Russia with phishing emails that deliver Phantom Stealer via malicious ISO optical disc images. The activity, codenamed Operation MoneyMount-ISO by Seqrite Labs, has primarily singled out finance and accounting entities, with those in the procurement, legal, payroll … Read More “Phantom Stealer Spread by ISO Phishing Emails Hitting Russian Finance Sector – The Hacker News” »
Torrance, United States / California, December 12th, 2025, CyberNewsWire In December 2025, CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell), a vulnerability in React… – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
The pro-Russian hacktivist group known as CyberVolk (aka GLORIAMIST) has resurfaced with a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering called VolkLocker that suffers from implementation lapses in test artifacts, allowing users to decrypt files without paying an extortion fee. According to SentinelOne, VolkLocker (aka CyberVolk 2.x) emerged in August 2025 and is capable of targeting both Windows … Read More “VolkLocker Ransomware Exposed by Hard-Coded Master Key Allowing Free Decryption – The Hacker News” »
UK’s ICO fines LastPass £1.2M for the 2022 data breach that exposed 1.6 million users’ data. Learn how a flaw in an employee’s personal PC led to the massive security failure. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity flaw impacting Sierra Wireless AirLink ALEOS routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. CVE-2018-4063 (CVSS score: 8.8/9.9) refers to an unrestricted file upload vulnerability that could be exploited to achieve remote code – … Read More “CISA Adds Actively Exploited Sierra Wireless Router Flaw Enabling RCE Attacks – The Hacker News” »
Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two security flaws that it said have been exploited in the wild, one of which is the same flaw that was patched by Google in Chrome earlier this week. The vulnerabilities are listed below – … Read More “Apple Issues Security Updates After Two WebKit Flaws Found Exploited in the Wild – The Hacker News” »
The Oyster backdoor (also known as Broomstick) is targeting the financial world, using malicious search ads for PuTTY, Teams, and Google Meet. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
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The Department of Justice is suing Fulton County, Georgia and its election clerk over the county’s refusal to hand over voter records, part of a larger nationwide project to collect as much election and voter information as possible from state and local governments ahead of the 2026 and 2028 elections. In a lawsuit announced Thursday, … Read More “DOJ sues Fulton County over 2020 voter data – CyberScoop” »
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that’s leveraging GitHub-hosted Python repositories to distribute a previously undocumented JavaScript-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT) dubbed PyStoreRAT. “These repositories, often themed as development utilities or OSINT tools, contain only a few lines of code responsible for silently downloading a remote HTA file and executing – Read … Read More “Fake OSINT and GPT Utility GitHub Repos Spread PyStoreRAT Malware Payloads – The Hacker News” »
A new malware called PyStoreRAT is being through fake OSINT tools on GitHub targeting IT and OSINT pros. Read Morphisec’s report detailing how it uses AI and evades security. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
Disclosure: This article was submitted by PDFAid for publication. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
President Donald Trump announced Thursday his intention to issue a federal pardon for an individual convicted in connection with efforts related to challenging the 2020 election results. However, on this occasion, the person in question will remain behind bars. In a statement on Truth Social, Trump said he was pardoning Tina Peters, a former Mesa County … Read More “Trump moves to pardon Colorado election clerk Tina Peters, even though he can’t – CyberScoop” »
Cybersecurity researchers have documented four new phishing kits named BlackForce, GhostFrame, InboxPrime AI, and Spiderman that are capable of facilitating credential theft at scale. BlackForce, first detected in August 2025, is designed to steal credentials and perform Man-in-the-Browser (MitB) attacks to capture one-time passwords (OTPs) and bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA). The kit – Read More … Read More “New Advanced Phishing Kits Use AI and MFA Bypass Tactics to Steal Credentials at Scale – The Hacker News” »
Analyst firm Gartner has issued a blunt warning to organizations: Agentic AI browsers introduce serious new security risks and should be blocked “for the foreseeable future.” Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. – Read More – Graham Cluley
The browser has become the main interface to GenAI for most enterprises: from web-based LLMs and copilots, to GenAI‑powered extensions and agentic browsers like ChatGPT Atlas. Employees are leveraging the power of GenAI to draft emails, summarize documents, work on code, and analyze data, often by copying/pasting sensitive information directly into prompts or uploading files. … Read More “Securing GenAI in the Browser: Policy, Isolation, and Data Controls That Actually Work – The Hacker News” »
The browser has become the main interface to GenAI for most enterprises: from web-based LLMs and copilots, to GenAI‑powered extensions and agentic browsers like ChatGPT Atlas. Employees are leveraging the power of GenAI to draft emails, summarize documents, work on code, and analyze data, often by copying/pasting sensitive information directly into prompts or uploading files. … Read More “Securing GenAI in the Browser: Policy, Isolation, and Data Controls That Actually Work – The Hacker News” »
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged federal agencies to patch the recent React2Shell vulnerability by December 12, 2025, amid reports of widespread exploitation. The critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182 (CVSS score: 10.0), affects the React Server Components (RSC) Flight protocol. The underlying cause of the issue is an unsafe deserialization – … Read More “React2Shell Exploitation Escalates into Large-Scale Global Attacks, Forcing Emergency Mitigation – The Hacker News” »
The React team has released fixes for two new types of flaws in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in denial-of-service (DoS) or source code exposure. The team said the issues were found by the security community while attempting to exploit the patches released for CVE-2025-55182 (CVSS score: 10.0), a critical … Read More “New React RSC Vulnerabilities Enable DoS and Source Code Exposure – The Hacker News” »
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a high-severity security flaw impacting OSGeo GeoServer to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-58360 (CVSS score: 8.2), an unauthenticated XML External Entity (XXE) flaw that affects all versions prior … Read More “CISA Flags Actively Exploited GeoServer XXE Flaw in Updated KEV Catalog – The Hacker News” »
A fresh effort is mounting in Congress to require federal agents to obtain a warrant before searching a government surveillance database for information about U.S. citizens, as Congress again faces an impending deadline, in four months, to renew a major surveillance law. But there are also signs that renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign … Read More “Warrant requirements, Democratic worries could factor into spy law renewal debate – CyberScoop” »
VS Code developers beware: ReversingLabs found 19 malicious extensions hiding trojans inside a popular dependency, disguising the final malware payload as a standard PNG image file. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
Zimperium zLabs reveals DroidLock, a new Android malware acting like ransomware that can hijack Android devices, steal credentials via phishing, and stream your screen via VNC. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
Road Town, British Virgin Islands, 11th December 2025, CyberNewsWire – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
