Authority Backdoor: A Certifiable Backdoor Mechanism for Authoring DNNs

Deep Neural Networks DNNs, as valuable intellectual property, face unauthorized use. Existing protections, such as digital watermarking, are largely passive; they provide only post-hoc ownership verification and cannot actively prevent the illicit use of a stolen model. This work proposes a...

React2Shell Exploitation Delivers Crypto Miners and New Malware Across Multiple Sectors

React2Shell continues to witness heavy exploitation, with threat actors leveraging the maximum-severity security flaw in React Server Components RSC to deliver cryptocurrency miners and an array of previously undocumented malware families, according to new findings from Huntress. This includes a...

aap-gateway: Improper Path Validation in Gateway Allows Credential Exfiltration

A flaw was found in the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Gateway route creation component. This vulnerability allows credential theft via the creation of misleading routes using a double-slash // prefix in the gatewaypath. A malicious or socially engineered administrator can configure a...

North Korean Hackers Deploy EtherRAT Malware in React2Shell Exploits

Sysdig discovered North Korea-linked EtherRAT, a stealthy new backdoor using Ethereum smart contracts for C2 after exploiting the critical React2Shell vulnerability CVE-2025-55182...

MAL-2025-192411 Malicious code in fastavro (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector b8e01c7f0d2603f1d6cf541b7aa69c4bf9253ad1cd6b970a3337db957668a420 The package fastavro was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware dfa83913e0a60ce0006e336f2f9f837aac0fa16d414d3c4c149562e19aed7474 Any...

CVE-2021-47731 Selea Targa IP Camera Developer Backdoor Configuration Overwrite

Selea Targa IP OCR-ANPR Camera contains a hard-coded developer password vulnerability that allows unauthorized configuration access through an undocumented page. Attackers can exploit the hidden endpoint by using the hard-coded password 'Selea781830' to enable configuration upload and overwrite...

MuddyWater Deploys UDPGangster Backdoor in Targeted Turkey-Israel-Azerbaijan Campaign

The Iranian hacking group known as MuddyWater has been observed leveraging a new backdoor dubbed UDPGangster that uses the User Datagram Protocol UDP for command-and-control C2 purposes. The cyber espionage activity targeted users in Turkey, Israel, and Azerbaijan, according to a report from...

AI-Automated Threat Hunting Brings GhostPenguin Out of the Shadows

In this blog entry, Trend™ Research provides a comprehensive breakdown of GhostPenguin, a previously undocumented Linux backdoor with low detection rates that was discovered through AI-powered threat hunting and in-depth malware analysis...

Chinese State Hackers Use New BRICKSTORM Malware Against VMware Systems

CISA, NSA, and Canadian Cyber Centre warn that PRC state-sponsored hackers are using BRICKSTORM, a stealthy Go-based backdoor, for long-term espionage in Government and IT networks...

Exploit for CVE-2025-55182

CVE-2025-55182 Attack Analysis: React Server Components RCE...

CISA Reports PRC Hackers Using BRICKSTORM for Long-Term Access in U.S. Systems

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday released details of a backdoor named BRICKSTORM that has been put to use by state-sponsored threat actors from the People's Republic of China PRC to maintain long-term persistence on compromised systems. "BRICKSTORM is a...

MAL-2025-192307 Malicious code in jsonify-settings (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 4542f68b7757f5b53642bfaa0e9904aa7fd388338cb001d9e7911b90641a909f The package jsonify-settings was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware 286d141ff650d5b4b60b7ad344ea4c0f5b4c3326cf6e7ce1c5e1de74c53094...

Iran-Linked Hackers Hit Israeli Sectors with New MuddyViper Backdoor in Targeted Attacks

Israeli entities spanning academia, engineering, local government, manufacturing, technology, transportation, and utilities sectors have emerged as the target of a new set of attacks undertaken by Iranian nation-state actors that have delivered a previously undocumented backdoor called MuddyViper...

LeechHijack: Covert Computational Resource Exploitation in Intelligent Agent Systems

Large Language Model LLM-based agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in reasoning, planning, and tool usage. The recently proposed Model Context Protocol MCP has emerged as a unifying framework for integrating external tools into agent systems, enabling a thriving open ecosystem of...

Exposing Vulnerabilities in RL: A Novel Stealthy Backdoor Attack through Reward Poisoning

Reinforcement learning RL has achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, enabling autonomous systems to learn and adapt to dynamic environments by optimizing a reward function. However, this reliance on reward signals creates a significant security vulnerability. In this paper, we study ...

Fake LinkedIn jobs trick Mac users into downloading Flexible Ferret malware

Researchers have discovered a new attack targeting Mac users. It lures them to a fake job website, then tricks them into downloading malware via a bogus software update. The attackers pose as recruiters and contact people via LinkedIn, encouraging them to apply for a role. As part of the...

When your AI Assistant Becomes the Attacker’s Command-and-Control

Earlier this month, Microsoft uncovered SesameOp, a new backdoor malware that abuses the OpenAI Assistants API as a covert command-and-control C2 channel. The discovery has drawn significant attention within the cybersecurity community. Security teams can no longer focus solely on endpoint malwar...

CVE-2025-6389 Sneeit Framework <= 8.3 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in sneeit_articles_pagination_callback

The Sneeit Framework plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution in all versions up to, and including, 8.3 via the sneeitarticlespaginationcallback function. This is due to the function accepting user input and then passing that through calluserfunc. This makes it possible for...

Malicious code in @ensdomains/ens-test-env (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 3393f85554fe6141b0f72e2f23d0940b102522348e71f60d407dc1471de8f6a9 The package @ensdomains/ens-test-env was found to contain malicious code. Source: ghsa-malware...

ShadowPad Malware Actively Exploits WSUS Vulnerability for Full System Access

A recently patched security flaw in Microsoft Windows Server Update Services WSUS has been exploited by threat actors to distribute a malware known as ShadowPad. "The attacker targeted Windows Servers with WSUS enabled, exploiting CVE-2025-59287 for initial access," AhnLab Security Intelligence...