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Researchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware
Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a new campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron , according to findings from Kaspersky. The cyber espionage activity was first flagged by the Russian cybersecurity vendor in November 2024, when it...
CVE-2023-52236
creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2025-10-21 10:00:00+00:00| seen| https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-294-04...
PassiveNeuron: a sophisticated campaign targeting servers of high-profile organizations
Introduction Back in 2024, we gave a brief description of a complex cyberespionage campaign that we dubbed "PassiveNeuron". This campaign involved compromising the servers of government organizations with previously unknown APT implants, named "Neursite" and "NeuralExecutor". However, since its...
The Attribution Story of WhisperGate: An Academic Perspective
This paper explores the challenges of cyberattack attribution, specifically APTs, applying the case study approach for the WhisperGate cyber operation of January 2022 executed by the Russian military intelligence service GRU and targeting Ukrainian government entities. The study provides a detail...
Chinese gangs made over $1 billion targeting Americans with scam texts
We regularly warn our readers about new scams and phishing texts. Almost everyone gets pestered with these messages. But where are all these scam texts coming from? According to an article in The Wall Street Journal: “It has become a billion-dollar, highly sophisticated business benefiting...
Anthropic Has a Plan to Keep Its AI From Building a Nuclear Weapon. Will It Work?
Anthropic partnered with the US government to create a filter meant to block Claude from helping someone build a nuke. Experts are divided on whether its a necessary protection—or a protection at all...
A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted
Here's the summary: We pointed a commercial-off-the-shelf satellite dish at the sky and carried out the most comprehensive public study to date of geostationary satellite communication. A shockingly large amount of sensitive traffic is being broadcast unencrypted, including critical infrastructur...
CVE-2023-35002
creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2025-10-16 10:00:00+00:00| seen| https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-289-06...
ThreatsDay Bulletin: $15B Crypto Bust, Satellite Spying, Billion-Dollar Smishing, Android RATs & More
The online world is changing fast. Every week, new scams, hacks, and tricks show how easy it’s become to turn everyday technology into a weapon. Tools made to help us work, connect, and stay safe are now being used to steal, spy, and deceive. Hackers don’t always break systems anymore — they use...
Mysterious Elephant: a growing threat
Introduction Mysterious Elephant is a highly active advanced persistent threat APT group that we at Kaspersky GReAT discovered in 2023. It has been consistently evolving and adapting its tactics, techniques, and procedures TTPs to stay under the radar. With a primary focus on targeting government...
CVE-2025-62362
gpp-burgerportaal is a Dutch government citizen portal application. In versions before 2.0.3, 3.0.2, and 4.0.1, the name and email address of employees who publish content are exposed in network responses and can be discovered by viewing the browser's developer tools network tab. This information...
Rewiring Democracy is Coming Soon
My latest book, Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship , will be published in just over a week. No reviews yet, but you can read chapters 12 and 34 of 43 chapters total. You can order the book pretty much everywhere, and a copy signed by me here. Pleas...
CVE-2025-62362: Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized Actor
gpp-burgerportaal is a Dutch government citizen portal application. In versions before 2.0.3, 3.0.2, and 4.0.1, the name and email address of employees who publish content are exposed in network responses and can be discovered by viewing the browser's developer tools network tab. This information...
Discord Says Hackers Stole 70,000 ID Photos, Dismisses Extortion Claims
70,000 Discord users had government ID photos and private data exposed via a third-party vendor breach. See Discord's full response and critical security steps to protect your identity...
From Phishing to Malware: AI Becomes Russia's New Cyber Weapon in War on Ukraine
Russian hackers' adoption of artificial intelligence AI in cyber attacks against Ukraine has reached a new level in the first half of 2025 H1 2025, the country's State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection SSSCIP said. "Hackers now employ it not only to generate phishing...
AI-Enabled Influence Operation Against Iran
Citizen Lab has uncovered a coordinated AI-enabled influence operation against the Iranian government, probably conducted by Israel. Key Findings A coordinated network of more than 50 inauthentic X profiles is conducting an AI-enabled influence operation. The network, which we refer to as...
Discord warns users after data stolen in third-party breach
Popular social platform Discord has suffered a data breach—though technically, it wasn’t Discord itself that was hacked. A third-party customer support provider was compromised, allowing attackers to access Discord’s user data. Either way, it’s Discord users who feel the impact. The breach, which...
EUVD-2019-6152
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