DOJ Resentences BreachForums Founder to 3 Years for Cybercrime and Possession of CSAM

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Tuesday resentenced the former administrator of BreachForums to three years in prison in connection with his role in running the cybercrime forum and possessing child sexual abuse material CSAM. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick aka Pompompurin, 22, of Peekskill, New...

Fake Madgicx Plus and SocialMetrics Extensions Are Hijacking Meta Business Accounts

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two new campaigns that are serving fake browser extensions using malicious ads and fake websites to steal sensitive data. The malvertising campaign, per Bitdefender, is designed to push fake "Meta Verified" browser extensions named SocialMetrics Pro that...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-3731

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Moodle 3.0 through 3.0.3, 2.9 through 2.9.5, and 2.8 through 2.8.11 allows remote attackers to obtain the names of hidden forums and forum discussions...

Threat Actors Weaponize HexStrike AI to Exploit Citrix Flaws Within a Week of Disclosure

Threat actors are attempting to leverage a newly released artificial intelligence AI offensive security tool called HexStrike AI to exploit recently disclosed security flaws. HexStrike AI, according to its website, is pitched as an AI‑driven security platform to automate reconnaissance and...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-2576

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - In Moodle 2.x and 3.x, there is incorrect sanitization of attributes in forums. CVE-2017-2576 Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported...

WordPress Muut – Commenting and Forums Re-Imagined plugin <= 3.0.6 - Reflected Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Reflected Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Nguyen Xuan Chien Patchstack Alliance in WordPress Plugin Muut – Commenting and Forums Re-Imagined versions = 3.0.6...

EventHunter: Dynamic Clustering and Ranking of Security Events from Hacker Forum Discussions

Hacker forums provide critical early warning signals for emerging cybersecurity threats, but extracting actionable intelligence from their unstructured and noisy content remains a significant challenge. This paper presents an unsupervised framework that automatically detects, clusters, and...

Jailbroken AIs are helping cybercriminals to hone their craft

Cybercriminals are bypassing the guardrails that are supposed to keep AI models from carrying out criminal activities, according to researchers. We've seen the misuse of AI models by cybercriminals growing rapidly over the past several years, shaping a new era of digital threats. Early on,...

Pro-Iranian Hacktivist Group Leaks Personal Records from the 2024 Saudi Games

Thousands of personal records allegedly linked to athletes and visitors of the Saudi Games have been published online by a pro-Iranian hacktivist group called Cyber Fattah. Cybersecurity company Resecurity said the breach was announced on Telegram on June 22, 2025, in the form of SQL database...

CVE-2023-45556

Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Mybb Mybb Forums v.1.8.33 allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code via the theme Name parameter in the theme management component...

CVE-2010-4264

It was found in vanilla forums before 2.0.10 a cross-site scripting vulnerability where a filename could contain arbitrary code to execute on the client side...

CVE-2012-6556

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the FirstLastNames plugin 1.1.1 for Vanilla Forums allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 User/FirstName or 2 User/LastName parameter to the edit user page. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third...

CVE-2012-6555

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the LatestComment plugin 1.1 for Vanilla Forums allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the discussion title...

CVE-2011-1009

Vanilla Forums 2.0.17.1 through 2.0.17.5 has XSS in /vanilla/index.php via the p parameter...

CVE-2010-4266

It was found in vanilla forums before 2.0.10 a potential linkbait vulnerability in dispatcher...

CVE-2005-2228

Web Wiz Forums 7.9 and 8.0 allows remote attackers to view message titles of a hidden forum...

CVE-2006-5603

SQL injection vulnerability in popmail.asp in Snitz Forums 2000 3.4.06 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the RC parameter. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained from third party information...

The Dark Side of the Web: Towards Understanding Various Data Sources in Cyber Threat Intelligence

Cyber threats have become increasingly prevalent and sophisticated. Prior work has extracted actionable cyber threat intelligence CTI, such as indicators of compromise, tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs, or threat feeds from various sources: open source data e.g., social networks, internal...

Initial Access Brokers Shift Tactics, Selling More for Less

What are IABs? Initial Access Brokers IABs specialize in gaining unauthorized entry into computer systems and networks, then selling that access to other cybercriminals. This division of labor allows IABs to concentrate on their core expertise: exploiting vulnerabilities through methods like soci...

A Rebirth of a Cursed Existence? Examining ‘Babuk Locker 2.0’ Ransomware

Co-authored by Yaniv Allender and Anna Sirokova Introduction Ransomware remains a major threat, causing significant disruption and financial losses to organizations across various sectors. Cybercriminal groups behind these attacks constantly adapt their methods to maximize damage and profit. At...