AttackFeed by Joe Wagner

Cybersecurity researchers have tied a fresh round of cyber attacks targeting financial services to the notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider, casting doubt on their claims of going “dark.” Threat intelligence firm ReliaQuest said it has observed indications that the threat actor has shifted their focus to the financial sector. This is supported by … Read More “Scattered Spider Resurfaces With Financial Sector Attacks Despite Retirement Claims  – The Hacker News” »

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday resentenced the former administrator of BreachForums to three years in prison in connection with his role in running the cybercrime forum and possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (aka Pompompurin), 22, of Peekskill, New York, pleaded guilty to one count of access device conspiracy, … Read More “DOJ Resentences BreachForums Founder to 3 Years for Cybercrime and Possession of CSAM  – The Hacker News” »

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit said it teamed up with Cloudflare to coordinate the seizure of 338 domains used by RaccoonO365, a financially motivated threat group that was behind a phishing-as-a-service (Phaas) toolkit used to steal more than 5,000 Microsoft 365 credentials from 94 countries since July 2024. “Using a court order granted by the Southern … Read More “RaccoonO365 Phishing Network Shut Down After Microsoft and Cloudflare Disrupt 338 Domains  – The Hacker News” »

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit coordinated the seizure of 338 domains used by RaccoonO365, a financially motivated threat group that developed and sold phishing kits that have been used to steal more than 5,000 Microsoft credentials since July 2024, the company said Tuesday.  The threat group, which Microsoft tracks as Storm-2246, enabled cybercriminals to steal credentials … Read More “Microsoft seizes hundreds of phishing sites tied to massive credential theft operation  – CyberScoop” »

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A man who pleaded guilty in 2023 for charges related to his work as founder and operator of the notorious BreachForums website was resentenced Tuesday to three years in prison after having his initial sentence overturned in January. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, 22, operated BreachForums — once regarded as the largest English-language cybercrime marketplace — under … Read More “BreachForums founder resentenced to three years in prison  – CyberScoop” »

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple critical security vulnerabilities in Chaos Mesh that, if successfully exploited, could lead to cluster takeover in Kubernetes environments. “Attackers need only minimal in-cluster network access to exploit these vulnerabilities, execute the platform’s fault injections (such as shutting down pods or disrupting network communications), and perform  – Read More  – The … Read More “Chaos Mesh Critical GraphQL Flaws Enable RCE and Full Kubernetes Cluster Takeover  – The Hacker News” »

A massive ad fraud and click fraud operation dubbed SlopAds ran a cluster of 224 apps, collectively attracting 38 million downloads across 228 countries and territories. “These apps deliver their fraud payload using steganography and create hidden WebViews to navigate to threat actor-owned cashout sites, generating fraudulent ad impressions and clicks,” HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence … Read More “SlopAds Fraud Ring Exploits 224 Android Apps to Drive 2.3 Billion Daily Ad Bids  – The Hacker News” »

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on GitHub, experts warn. The malware, which briefly infected multiple code packages from the security vendor CrowdStrike, steals and publishes even more credentials every time an infected package … Read More “Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages  – Krebs on Security” »

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new campaign that’s leveraging a variant of the FileFix social engineering tactic to deliver the StealC information stealer malware. “The observed campaign uses a highly convincing, multilingual phishing site (e.g., fake Facebook Security page), with anti-analysis techniques and advanced obfuscation to evade detection,” Acronis security researcher Eliad  – Read … Read More “New FileFix Variant Delivers StealC Malware Through Multilingual Phishing Site  – The Hacker News” »

AI agents are rapidly becoming a core part of the enterprise, being embedded across enterprise workflows, operating with autonomy, and making decisions about which systems to access and how to use them. But as agents grow in power and autonomy, so do the risks and threats.  Recent studies show 80% of companies have already experienced … Read More “Securing the Agentic Era: Introducing Astrix’s AI Agent Control Plane  – The Hacker News” »

Apple on Monday backported fixes for a recently patched security flaw that has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-43300 (CVSS score: 8.8), an out-of-bounds write issue in the ImageIO component that could result in memory corruption when processing a malicious image file. “Apple is aware of a report that … Read More “Apple Backports Fix for CVE-2025-43300 Exploited in Sophisticated Spyware Attack  – The Hacker News” »

A team of academics from ETH Zürich and Google has discovered a new variant of a RowHammer attack targeting Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory chips from South Korean semiconductor vendor SK Hynix. The RowHammer attack variant, codenamed Phoenix (CVE-2025-6202, CVSS score: 7.1), is capable of bypassing sophisticated protection mechanisms put in place to resist … Read More “Phoenix RowHammer Attack Bypasses Advanced DDR5 Memory Protections in 109 Seconds  – The Hacker News” »

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh software supply chain attack targeting the npm registry that has affected more than 40 packages that belong to multiple maintainers. “The compromised versions include a function (NpmModule.updatePackage) that downloads a package tarball, modifies package.json, injects a local script (bundle.js), repacks the archive, and republishes it, enabling  – Read More  … Read More “40 npm Packages Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Using bundle.js to Steal Credentials  – The Hacker News” »