Cybersecurity News from Across the Internet
Posted by Onur Tezcan via Fulldisclosure on Dec 15 [Attack Vectors] > It was detected that a Stored XSS vulnerability in the Attributes management workflow. An attacker can insert JavaScript into the Name field when adding a new Attribute Group (Catalog > Attributes > Specification attributes > Add Group > Name input field). To … Read More “nopCommerce 4.90.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) via the Attributes functionality – Full Disclosure” »
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
A new phishing campaign has been identified, delivering the Phantom information-stealing malware via an ISO attachment – Read More –
A Minnesota man has pleaded guilty to a credential stuffing scheme that compromised over 60,000 accounts – Read 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” »
MITRE has released its Top 25 CWE list for 2025, compiled from software and hardware flaws behind almost 40,000 CVEs – Read More –
Asahi Group’s CEO said he is considering creating a dedicated cyber unit following the ransomware attack that crippled the company – Read More –
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 UK’s National Cyber Security Centre has called on businesses to apply Cyber Essentials to suppliers – Read More –
A fundamental change is in progress across the GCC: data privacy is to no longer be a box that… The post Data Privacy vs Compliance: Why Zero Trust Is the Future for GCC Companies appeared first on JISA Softech Pvt Ltd. – Read More – JISA Softech Pvt Ltd
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” »
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user an attacker could then install programs; … Read More “Multiple Vulnerabilities in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution – Cyber Security Advisories – MS-ISAC” »
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” »
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
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” »
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 National Cyber Security Centre has released new learnings from a cyber deception pilot – Read More –
The UK’s data protection regulator has fined password manager provider LastPass £1.2m after 2022 data breach – Read More –
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 Coupang South Korean unit’s response will be spearheaded by an executive based in the US – Read More –
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
OpenAI has reported a surge in performance as GPT-5.1-Codex-Max reaching 76% in capability assessments, and warned of upcoming cyber-risks – Read More –
A new campaign involving 19 malicious Visual Studio Code extensions used a legitimate npm package to embed malware in dependency folders – Read More –
Road Town, British Virgin Islands, 11th December 2025, CyberNewsWire – 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
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
