⚡ Weekly Recap: Airline Hacks, Citrix 0-Day, Outlook Malware, Banking Trojans and more

Ever wonder what happens when attackers don’t break the rules—they just follow them better than we do? When systems work exactly as they’re built to, but that “by design” behavior quietly opens the door to risk? This week brings stories that make you stop and rethink what’s truly under control...

FBI Warns of Scattered Spider's Expanding Attacks on Airlines Using Social Engineering

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has revealed that it has observed the notorious cybercrime group Scattered Spider broadening its targeting footprint to strike the airline sector. To that end, the agency said it's actively working with aviation and industry partners to combat the...

Unveiling RIFT: Enhancing Rust malware analysis through pattern matching

Today, Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center is excited to announce the release of RIFT , a tool designed to assist malware analysts automate the identification of attacker-written code within Rust binaries. Known for its efficiency, type safety, and robust memory safety, Rust has increasingly...

One Video to Steal Them All: 3D-Printing IP Theft through Optical Side-Channels

The 3D printing industry is rapidly growing and increasingly adopted across various sectors including manufacturing, healthcare, and defense. However, the operational setup often involves hazardous environments, necessitating remote monitoring through cameras and other sensors, which opens the do...

Building security that lasts: Microsoft’s journey towards durability at scale ​​

In this blog you will hear directly from Microsoft’s Deputy Chief Information Security Officer CISO for Azure and operating systems, Mark Russinovich, about how Microsoft operationalized security durability at scale. This blog is part of an ongoing series where our Deputy CISOs share their though...

New FileFix Method Emerges as a Threat Following 517% Rise in ClickFix Attacks

The ClickFix social engineering tactic as an initial access vector using fake CAPTCHA verifications increased by 517% between the second half of 2024 and the first half of this year, according to data from ESET. "The list of threats that ClickFix attacks lead to is growing by the day, including...

Iranian APT35 Hackers Targeting Israeli Tech Experts with AI-Powered Phishing Attacks

An Iranian state-sponsored hacking group associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC has been linked to a spear-phishing campaign targeting journalists, high-profile cyber security experts, and computer science professors in Israel. "In some of those campaigns, Israeli technology a...

TrendMakers Sight Bulb Pro

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to capture sensitive information and execute arbitrary shell commands on the target device as root if connected to the local network segment. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA reminds organizations to perform...

ControlID iDSecure On-premises

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass authentication, retrieve information, leak arbitrary data, or perform SQL injections. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of...

Delta Electronics CNCSoft

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute code within the context of the current process. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities. CISA reminds...

CVE-2025-49144

CVE-2025-49144 affects Notepad++ installers prior to 8.8.2 (notably v8.8.1). Root cause: insecure executable search paths allow a local attacker to execute a malicious binary (e.g., regsvr32.exe) placed in the same directory as the installer (commonly Downloads), yielding SYSTEM-level privileges ...

Gmail’s multi-factor authentication bypassed by hackers to pull off targeted attacks

Russian hackers have bypassed Google's multi-factor authentication MFA in Gmail to pull off targeted attacks, according to security researchers at Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG. The hackers pulled this off by posing as US Department of State officials in advanced social engineering attack...

Scattered Spider Behind Cyberattacks on M&S and Co-op, Causing Up to $592M in Damages

The April 2025 cyber attacks targeting U.K. retailers Marks & Spencer and Co-op have been classified as a "single combined cyber event." That's according to an assessment from the Cyber Monitoring Centre CMC, a U.K.-based independent, non-profit body set up by the insurance industry to categorize...

Anubis Ransomware Lists Disneyland Paris as New Victim

Anubis ransomware group claims a 64GB data breach at Disneyland Paris, leaking some engineering files and attraction plans via its dark web site...

Hackers Use Social Engineering to Target Expert on Russian Operations

Citizen Lab and Google uncovered a new, sophisticated cyberattack linked to Russian state actors that exploits App-Specific Passwords, bypassing Multi-Factor Authentication. Discover how to protect yourself from these evolving threats...

EditLord: Learning Code Transformation Rules for Code Editing

Code editing is a foundational task in software development, where its effectiveness depends on whether it introduces desired code property changes without changing the original code's intended functionality. Existing approaches often formulate code editing as an implicit end-to-end task, omittin...

Five Uncomfortable Truths About LLMs in Production

Many tech professionals see integrating large language models LLMs as a simple process -just connect an API and let it run. At Wallarm, our experience has proved otherwise. Through rigorous testing and iteration, our engineering team uncovered several critical insights about deploying LLMs secure...

CVE-2025-38014 dmaengine: idxd: Refactor remove call with idxd_cleanup() helper

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dmaengine: idxd: Refactor remove call with idxdcleanup helper The idxdcleanup helper cleans up perfmon, interrupts, internals and so on. Refactor remove call with the idxdcleanup helper to avoid code duplication. Note, this also...

Scattered Spider Aims at US Insurers After UK Retail Hit, Google Warns

Scattered Spider targets US insurance firms after UK retail attacks, using social engineering to breach help desks and disrupt services, Google warns...

Google Warns of Scattered Spider Attacks Targeting IT Support Teams at U.S. Insurance Firms

The notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider aka UNC3944 that recently targeted various U.K. and U.S. retailers has begun to target major insurance companies, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG. "Google Threat Intelligence Group is now aware of multiple intrusions in t...