AttackFeed by Joe Wagner

Modern security teams often feel like they’re driving through fog with failing headlights. Threats accelerate, alerts multiply, and SOCs struggle to understand which dangers matter right now for their business. Breaking out of reactive defense is no longer optional. It’s the difference between preventing incidents and cleaning up after them. Below is the path from … Read More “Fix SOC Blind Spots: See Threats to Your Industry & Country in Real Time  – The Hacker News” »

Modern security teams often feel like they’re driving through fog with failing headlights. Threats accelerate, alerts multiply, and SOCs struggle to understand which dangers matter right now for their business. Breaking out of reactive defense is no longer optional. It’s the difference between preventing incidents and cleaning up after them. Below is the path from … Read More “Fix SOC Blind Spots: See Threats to Your Industry & Country in Real Time  – The Hacker News” »

If you’re planning a cruise for your holidays, and cannot bear the idea of being parted from your Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, you may want to avoid sailing with MSC Cruises. The cruise line has updated its list of prohibited items, specifically banning smart glasses and similar wearable devices from public areas. Read more in … Read More “Surveillance at sea: Cruise firm bans smart glasses to curb covert recording  – Graham Cluley” »

A new campaign named GhostPoster has leveraged logo files associated with 17 Mozilla Firefox browser add-ons to embed malicious JavaScript code designed to hijack affiliate links, inject tracking code, and commit click and ad fraud. The extensions have been collectively downloaded over 50,000 times, according to Koi Security, which discovered the campaign. The add-ons are … Read More “GhostPoster Malware Found in 17 Firefox Add-ons with 50,000+ Downloads  – The Hacker News” »

SoundCloud confirms a breach affecting an estimated 20% of users, resulting in stolen email addresses. The company is dealing with follow-up DoS attacks by unnamed attackers while media reports allege involvement of ShinyHunters.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

The Federal Trade Commission is ordering a company that publicly touted its cybersecurity capabilities to return recovered funds to victims and implement security reforms, after a software flaw let hackers steal hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from users. The FTC announced it had reached a settlement with Illusory Systems, which also does business … Read More “Illusory Systems settles with FTC over 2022 cryptocurrency hack  – CyberScoop” »

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Amazon Threat Intelligence reports Russian GRU hackers are increasingly breaking into critical infrastructure by abusing misconfigured devices instead of exploiting software vulnerabilities.  – Read More  – Hackread – Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI, and More 

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” »

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” »