Cybersecurity News from Across the Internet
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
Scale software teams fast with development team augmentation. Learn when it works best, key models, common mistakes, and how to choose the right partner. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
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
As enterprises refine their strategies for handling Non-Human Identities (NHIs), Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has become a powerful tool for streamlining operations and enhancing security. However, since RPA bots have varying levels of access to sensitive information, enterprises must be prepared to mitigate a variety of challenges. In large organizations, bots are starting to outnumber … Read More “The Impact of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) on Identity and Access Management – The Hacker News” »
Cary, North Carolina, USA, 11th December 2025, CyberNewsWire – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
Phishing campaign: Scammers sent over 40,000 spoofed SharePoint, DocuSign and e-sign emails to companies, hiding malicious links behind trusted redirect services. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new fully-featured Windows backdoor called NANOREMOTE that uses the Google Drive API for command-and-control (C2) purposes. According to a report from Elastic Security Labs, the malware shares code similarities with another implant codenamed FINALDRAFT (aka Squidoor) that employs Microsoft Graph API for C2. FINALDRAFT is attributed to a … Read More “NANOREMOTE Malware Uses Google Drive API for Hidden Control on Windows Systems – The Hacker News” »
This week’s cyber stories show how fast the online world can turn risky. Hackers are sneaking malware into movie downloads, browser add-ons, and even software updates people trust. Tech giants and governments are racing to plug new holes while arguing over privacy and control. And researchers keep uncovering just how much of our digital life … Read More “ThreatsDay Bulletin: Spyware Alerts, Mirai Strikes, Docker Leaks, ValleyRAT Rootkit — and 20 More Stories – The Hacker News” »
Global cybersecurity agencies have issued the first unified guidance on applying artificial intelligence (AI) within critical infrastructure, signaling a major shift from theoretical debate to practical guardrails for safety and reliability. The release of joint guidance on Principles for the Secure Integration of Artificial Intelligence in Operational Technology marks a meaningful milestone for critical infrastructure … Read More “New cybersecurity guidance paves the way for AI in critical infrastructure – CyberScoop” »
Every business today has to deal with private information – whether it is about customers, employees, or financial… – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
An advanced persistent threat (APT) known as WIRTE has been attributed to attacks targeting government and diplomatic entities across the Middle East with a previously undocumented malware suite dubbed AshTag since 2020. Palo Alto Networks is tracking the activity cluster under the name Ashen Lepus. Artifacts uploaded to the VirusTotal platform show that the threat … Read More “WIRTE Leverages AshenLoader Sideloading to Install the AshTag Espionage Backdoor – The Hacker News” »
Google on Wednesday shipped security updates for its Chrome browser to address three security flaws, including one it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, rated high in severity, is being tracked under the Chromium issue tracker ID “466192044.” Unlike other disclosures, Google has opted to keep information about the CVE … Read More “Chrome Targeted by Active In-the-Wild Exploit Tied to Undisclosed High-Severity Flaw – The Hacker News” »
Cybersecurity researchers at Blackpoint Cyber discovered a new, evasive CastleLoader malware variant using Python and ClickFix social engineering to deliver RATs and info-stealers directly from memory. – Read More – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More
A high-severity unpatched security vulnerability in Gogs has come under active exploitation, with more than 700 compromised instances accessible over the internet, according to new findings from Wiz. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-8110 (CVSS score: 8.7), is a case of file overwrite in the file update API of the Go-based self-hosted Git service. A fix … Read More “Unpatched Gogs Zero-Day Exploited Across 700+ Instances Amid Active Attacks – The Hacker News” »
Just when you thought there couldn’t be another type of cyber thief, they develop new and devious methods to steal valuable information and finances. Over the last few yearsthere has been an uptick in “SIM pharm” crimes. This form of crime has encompassed avariety of scams including theft of banking credentials, impersonation, investment fraud,and online … Read More “SIM Pharm Cyber crime Escalates in South Africa – Da Vinci Cybersecurity: Leading Cyber Security Services in South Africa.” »
Huntress is warning of a new actively exploited vulnerability in Gladinet’s CentreStack and Triofox products stemming from the use of hard-coded cryptographic keys that have affected nine organizations so far. “Threat actors can potentially abuse this as a way to access the web.config file, opening the door for deserialization and remote code execution,” security researcher … Read More “Active Attacks Exploit Gladinet’s Hard-Coded Keys for Unauthorized Access and Code Execution – The Hacker News” »
On this week’s show we learn that AI really can be a stalker’s best friend, as we explore a strange tale that starts with a manatee-shaped mailbox on a millionaire’s lawn and ends with Grok happily doxxing real people, mapping out stalking “strategies,” and handing out revenge-porn tips. Then we go inside the Louvre heist, … Read More “Smashing Security podcast #447: Grok the stalker, the Louvre heist, and Microsoft 365 mayhem – Graham Cluley” »
Security experts have observed a steady increase in malicious activity from a widening pool of attackers seeking to exploit React2Shell, a critical vulnerability disclosed last week in React Server Components. Authorities are also responding to heightened concern about the defect, with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency shortening the deadline for agencies to patch the … Read More “Attacks pinned to critical React2Shell defect surge, surpass 50 confirmed victims – CyberScoop” »
