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...

CVE-2025-12935: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

The FluentCRM – Email Newsletter, Automation, Email Marketing, Email Campaigns, Optins, Leads, and CRM Solution plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'fluentcrmcontent' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.9.84 due to insufficient input...

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 epimetheus-sagitta-cosmicweb-dactyl (npm)

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

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Malicious code in procyon-planckscale-steganography-procyon (npm)

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Malicious code in neptune-terraforming-commitizen-phenomic (npm)

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Malicious code in parcel-google-webdriverio-sails (npm)

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Malicious code in scripts-shelljs-quark-gridsome (npm)

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MAL-2025-187064 Malicious code in fusion-gravity-css-loader-perseus (npm)

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MAL-2025-186220 Malicious code in comet-perseus-andromeda-terraforming (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 48aafdc9143f2f03e019398a2f17e8554586833012e56e2e3ea753d55afc6471 This package appears to be part of the tea.xyz token reward campaign that flooded npm. These packages typically contain autopublish scripts auto.js,...