AttackFeed by Joe Wagner

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” »

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” »

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” »