Urgent Reminder to Update Edge Appliances During Peak Holiday Time-off

Customer Alert: Proactive Defense Against Threat Actor Campaigns Targeting Unpatched Network Security Solutions As the holiday season approaches, we are urging all Ivanti customers to ensure that all their network security solutions are updated to their latest versions, regardless of vendor. We...

Fix SOC Blind Spots: See Threats to Your Industry & Country in Real Time

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...

Analysing Multidisciplinary Approaches to Fight Large-Scale Digital Influence Operations

Crime as a Service CaaS has evolved from isolated criminal incidents to a broad spectrum of illicit activities, including social media manipulation, foreign information manipulation and interference FIMI, and the sale of disinformation toolkits. This article analyses how threat actors exploit...

Fake OSINT and GPT Utility GitHub Repos Spread PyStoreRAT Malware Payloads

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,...

Chain Reaction: Attack Campaign Activity in the Aftermath of React Server Components Vulnerability

Introduction and Vulnerability Overview Earlier this month, Imperva published an initial advisory outlining how our customers were protected against the newly disclosed React2Shell vulnerability impacting React Server Components RSC. That post focused on the essentials: a critical flaw arising fr...

SHADOW-VOID-042 Targets Multiple Industries with Void Rabisu-like Tactics

In November, a targeted spear-phishing campaign was observed using Trend Micro-themed lures against various industries, but this was quickly detected and thwarted by the Trend Vision One™ platform...

GoldFactory Hits Southeast Asia with Modified Banking Apps Driving 11,000+ Infections

Cybercriminals associated with a financially motivated group known as GoldFactory have been observed staging a fresh round of attacks targeting mobile users in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam by impersonating government services. The activity, observed since October 2024, involves distributing...

Bloody Wolf Expands Java-based NetSupport RAT Attacks in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

The threat actor known as Bloody Wolf has been attributed to a cyber attack campaign that has targeted Kyrgyzstan since at least June 2025 with the goal of delivering NetSupport RAT. As of October 2025, the activity has expanded to also single out Uzbekistan, Group-IB researchers Amirbek Kurbanov...

Department-Specific Security Awareness Campaigns: A Cross-Organizational Study of HR and Accounting

Many cyberattacks succeed because they exploit flaws at the human level. To address this problem, organizations rely on security awareness programs, which aim to make employees more resilient against social engineering. While some works have suggested that such programs should account for...

Care that you share

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Back in April, I wrote about the risks of unintentionally leaking information while using search engines. Since then, I've been thinking: Life doesn't just happen in front of a keyboard. There's a social side, too or so I'm told. Wit...

What Does BAS Stand For? A Complete Guide

Running generic security tests is like studying for the wrong exam. You might be prepared for something, but not for the threats you’re most likely to face. To build a truly resilient defense, you need to test your controls against the specific tactics, techniques, and procedures that adversaries...

Old tech, new vulnerabilities: NTLM abuse, ongoing exploitation in 2025

Just like the 2000s Flip phones grew popular, Windows XP debuted on personal computers, Apple introduced the iPod, peer-to-peer file sharing via torrents was taking off, and MSN Messenger dominated online chat. That was the tech scene in 2001, the same year when Sir Dystic of Cult of the Dead Cow...

CISA Warns of Active Spyware Campaigns Hijacking High-Value Signal and WhatsApp Users

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday issued an alert warning of bad actors actively leveraging commercial spyware and remote access trojans RATs to target users of mobile messaging applications. "These cyber actors use sophisticated targeting and social...

Lack of Sufficient Guardrails Lead to Excessive Agency (LLM08) in Some LLM Applications

Overview Retell AI's API creates AI voice agents that have excessive permissions and functionality, as a result of insufficient amounts of guardrails. As a result, attackers can exploit this and conduct large scale social engineering, phishing, and misinformation campaigns. Description Retell AI...

PT-2025-47435

The Booking Plugin for WordPress Appointments – Time Slot plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized email sending in versions up to, and including, 1.4.7 due to missing validation on the tslot appt email AJAX action. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to send appointmen...

The State of Security Today: Setting the Stage for 2026

As we close out 2025, one thing is clear: the security landscape is evolving faster than most organizations can keep up. From surging ransomware campaigns and AI-enhanced phishing to data extortion, geopolitical fallout, and gaps in cyber readiness, the challenges facing security teams today are ...

1 million victims, 17,500 fake sites: Google takes on toll-fee scammers

A Phishing-as-a-Service PhaaS platform based in China, known as “Lighthouse,” is the subject of a new Google lawsuit. Lighthouse enables smishing SMS phishing campaigns, and if you’re in the US there is a good chance you've seen their texts about a small amount you supposedly owe in toll fees...

Malicious code in jwt-rest-jest-pm2 (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 02d14fa447358c02a9d824fc3d31f4bf2eb4969999e71f2031f7f9dbacb0e360 This package appears to be part of the tea.xyz token reward campaign that flooded npm. These packages typically contain autopublish scripts auto.js,...

Malicious code in epimetheus-sagitta-cosmicweb-dactyl (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 90bc7aa72b27d6ff25deddb6571fb73ec8eb566c3846eddf42956cf6fb0fa976 This package appears to be part of the tea.xyz token reward campaign that flooded npm. These packages typically contain autopublish scripts auto.js,...

MAL-2025-187069 Malicious code in fusion-publish-query-auth0 (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector d512720b57f461578a656406e73eed2aa998862e62e2635a60b469de603a5928 This package appears to be part of the tea.xyz token reward campaign that flooded npm. These packages typically contain autopublish scripts auto.js,...