AI and collaboration tools: how cyberattackers are targeting SMBs in 2025

Cyberattackers often view small and medium-sized businesses SMBs as easier targets, assuming their security measures are less robust than those of larger enterprises. In fact, attacks through contractors, also known as trusted relationship attacks, remain one of the top three methods used to brea...

Understanding Iranian Capabilities and Hacktivist Activities

Understanding Iranian Capabilities and Hacktivist Activities By John Fokker · June 23, 2025 As geopolitical tensions flare again in the Middle East, cyber operations are increasingly becoming an extension of physical conflict. State-aligned threat actors, patriotic hackers, and ideologically...

New Android Malware Surge Hits Devices via Overlays, Virtualization Fraud, and NFC Theft

Cybersecurity researchers have exposed the inner workings of an Android malware called AntiDot that has compromised over 3,775 devices as part of 273 unique campaigns. "Operated by the financially motivated threat actor LARVA-398, AntiDot is actively sold as a Malware-as-a-Service MaaS on...

CVE-2025-4571 GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform <= 4.3.0 - Missing Authorization To Authenticated (Contributor+) Campaign Data View And Modification

The GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized view and modification of data due to an insufficient capability check on the permissionsCheck functions in all versions up to, and including, 4.3.0. This makes it possible for authenticated...

CVE-2025-4571

The CVE-2025-4571 entry concerns the WordPress plugin GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform. Affected versions are up to and including 4.3.0, with an insufficient permissions check in the permissionsCheck functions allowing authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and abo...

PT-2025-26212 · WordPress · Givewp

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GiveWP – Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform versions up to, and including, 4.3.0 Description: The issue allows authenticated attackers with Contributor-level access and above to view or delete fundraising campaigns, view donors' data, a...

Ransomware hiding in fake AI, business tools

Artificial intelligence AI and small business tools are being abused as smokescreens to hit unsuspecting victims with ransomware. In the masquerade campaigns discovered by Cisco Talos, cybercriminals hid malware behind software and install packages that mimicked the websites or names of the lead...

Android Trojan Crocodilus Now Active in 8 Countries, Targeting Banks and Crypto Wallets

A growing number of malicious campaigns have leveraged a recently discovered Android banking trojan called Crocodilus to target users in Europe and South America. The malware, according to a new report published by ThreatFabric, has also adopted improved obfuscation techniques to hinder analysis...

Why Take9 Won’t Improve Cybersecurity

There's a new cybersecurity awareness campaign: Take9. The idea is that people--you, me, everyone--should just pause for nine seconds and think more about the link they are planning to click on, the file they are planning to download, or whatever it is they are planning to share. There's a...

CVE-2024-32442

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in Zoho Campaigns.This issue affects Zoho Campaigns: from n/a through 2.0.7...

CVE-2024-32441

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in Zoho Campaigns.This issue affects Zoho Campaigns: from n/a through 2.0.7...

CVE-2024-3059

The ENL Newsletter WordPress plugin through 1.0.1 does not have CSRF checks in some places, which could allow attackers to make logged in admins delete arbitrary Campaigns via a CSRF attack...

CVE-2023-30950

The foundry campaigns service was found to be vulnerable to an unauthenticated information disclosure in a rest endpoint...

CVE-2019-17310

SugarCRM before 8.0.4 and 9.x before 9.0.2 allows PHP code injection in the Campaigns module by an Admin user...

CVE-2019-10884

Uniqkey Password Manager 1.14 contains a vulnerability because it fails to recognize the difference between domains and sub-domains. The vulnerability means that passwords saved for example.com will be recommended for usersite.example.com. This could lead to successful phishing campaigns and crea...

Lumma Stealer: Breaking down the delivery techniques and capabilities of a prolific infostealer

Over the past year, Microsoft observed the persistent growth and operational sophistication of Lumma Stealer, an infostealer malware used by multiple financially motivated threat actors to target various industries. Our investigation into Lumma Stealer’s distribution infrastructure reveals a...

Elevating Cyber Threat Intelligence against Disinformation Campaigns with LLM-Based Concept Extraction and the FakeCTI Dataset

The swift spread of fake news and disinformation campaigns poses a significant threat to public trust, political stability, and cybersecurity. Traditional Cyber Threat Intelligence CTI approaches, which rely on low-level indicators such as domain names and social media handles, are easily evaded ...

5 Major Concerns With Employees Using The Browser

As SaaS and cloud-native work reshape the enterprise, the web browser has emerged as the new endpoint. However, unlike endpoints, browsers remain mostly unmonitored, despite being responsible for more than 70% of modern malware attacks. Keep Aware's recent State of Browser Security report...

State-Sponsored Hackers Weaponize ClickFix Tactic in Targeted Malware Campaigns

Multiple state-sponsored hacking groups from Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been found leveraging the increasingly popular ClickFix social engineering tactic to deploy malware over a three-month period from late 2024 through the beginning of 2025. The phishing campaigns adopting the strategy...

Threat actors misuse Node.js to deliver malware and other malicious payloads

Since October 2024, Microsoft Defender Experts DEX has observed and helped multiple customers address campaigns leveraging Node.js to deliver malware and other payloads that ultimately lead to information theft and data exfiltration. While traditional scripting languages like Python, PHP, and...