Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors

Anthropic on Wednesday revealed that it disrupted a sophisticated operation that weaponized its artificial intelligence AI-powered chatbot Claude to conduct large-scale theft and extortion of personal data in July 2025. "The actor targeted at least 17 distinct organizations, including in...

Phishing Campaign Uses UpCrypter in Fake Voicemail Emails to Deliver RAT Payloads

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new phishing campaign that's using fake voicemails and purchase orders to deliver a malware loader called UpCrypter. The campaign leverages "carefully crafted emails to deliver malicious URLs linked to convincing phishing pages," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs...

FBI Warns FSB-Linked Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Cisco Devices for Cyber Espionage

A Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Static Tundra has been observed actively exploiting a seven-year-old security flaw in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE software as a means to establish persistent access to target networks. Cisco Talos, which disclosed details of the activity, sa...

Russian state-sponsored espionage group Static Tundra compromises unpatched end-of-life network devices

Static Tundra is a Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group linked to the FSB's Center 16 unit that has been operating for over a decade, specializing in compromising network devices for long-term intelligence gathering operations. The group actively exploits a seven-year-old vulnerability...

Ransomware incidents in Japan during the first half of 2025

In the first half of 2025, the number of ransomware attacks in Japan increased by approximately 1.4 times compared to the previous year. Ransomware attackers continue to primarily target small and medium-sized enterprises in Japan. The most affected industry remains manufacturing, unchanged from...

CVE-2025-1929

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command 'SQL Injection' vulnerability in Risk Yazılım Teknolojileri Ltd. Şti. Reel Sektör Hazine ve Risk Yönetimi Yazılımı allows SQL Injection, CAPEC - 7 - Blind SQL Injection. This issue affects Reel Sektör Hazine ve Risk Yönetimi...

Charon Ransomware Hits Middle East Sectors Using APT-Level Evasion Tactics

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that employs a previously undocumented ransomware family called Charon to target the Middle East's public sector and aviation industry. The threat actor behind the activity, according to Trend Micro, exhibited tactics mirroring those of...

SUSE CVE-2025-38442

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: reject bs ps block devices when THP is disabled If THP is disabled and when a block device with logical block size page size is present, the following null ptr deref panic happens during boot: 13.2 mK AOSAN: null-ptr-deref...

AZL-64889 CVE-2025-38333 affecting package kernel 6.6.126.1-1

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: f2fs: fix to bail out in getnewsegment ------------ cut here ------------ WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 579 at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2832 newcurseg+0x5e8/0x6dc pc : newcurseg+0x5e8/0x6dc Call trace: newcurseg+0x5e8/0x6dc...

Scattered Spider’s Strategic Hunt: Is Your Industry Next?

Running short on time but still want to stay in the know? Well, we’ve got you covered! We’ve condensed all the key takeaways into a handy audio summary. Our AI-driven podcasts are fit for on the go. Introduction In April 2025, a single phone call didn’t just ‘help crash’ Marks & Spencer’s...

China Linked Houken Hackers Breach French Systems with Ivanti Zero Days

ANSSI report details the Chinese UNC5174 linked Houken cyberattack using Ivanti zero-days CVE-2024-8190, 8963, 9380 against the French government, defence and finance sector...

OneClik: A ClickOnce-Based APT Campaign Targeting Energy, Oil and Gas Infrastructure

OneClik: A ClickOnce-Based Red Team Campaign Simulating APT Tactics in Energy Infrastructure By Nico Paulo Yturriaga and Pham Duy Phuc · Updated : June 30, 2025 The Trellix Advanced Research Center previously uncovered what appeared to be a sophisticated APT malware campaign, which we dubbed...

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...

OneClik Red Team Campaign Targets Energy Sector Using Microsoft ClickOnce and Golang Backdoors

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new campaign dubbed OneClik that leverages Microsoft's ClickOnce software deployment technology and bespoke Golang backdoors to compromise organizations within the energy, oil, and gas sectors. "The campaign exhibits characteristics aligned with...

New Guidance Released for Reducing Memory-Related Vulnerabilities

Today, CISA, in partnership with the National Security Agency NSA, released a joint guide on reducing memory-related vulnerabilities in modern software development. Memory safety vulnerabilities pose serious risks to national security and critical infrastructure. Adopting memory safe languages MS...

OneClik: A ClickOnce-Based APT Campaign Targeting Energy, Oil and Gas Infrastructure

OneClik: A ClickOnce-Based APT Campaign Targeting Energy, Oil and Gas Infrastructure By Nico Paulo Yturriaga and Pham Duy Phuc · June 24, 2025 The Trellix Advanced Research Center has uncovered a sophisticated APT malware campaign that we’ve dubbed OneClik. It specifically targets the energy, oil...

Lessons for Cybersecurity from the American Public Health System

The United States needs national institutions and frameworks to systematically collect cybersecurity data, measure outcomes, and coordinate responses across government and private sectors, similar to how public health systems track and address disease outbreaks...

Report Warns of Sophisticated DDoS Campaigns Crippling Global Banks

A new FS-ISAC and Akamai report warns that sophisticated DDoS attacks are severely impacting the global financial sector, leading to multi-day outages. Learn about these evolving threats and how institutions can strengthen defences...

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38073

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: fix race between setblocksize and read paths With the new large sector size support, it's now the case that setblocksize can change iblksize and the folio order in a manner that conflicts with a concurrent reader and cause...

CVE-2025-38073

CVE-2025-38073 is a Linux kernel vulnerability where a race between set_blocksize and read paths was fixed. The ALAS2023-2025-1350 advisory documents the issue and lists updated kernel packages (e.g., kernel-6.1.159-181.297.amzn2023.* for x86_64 and aarch64) as the remediation. Affected platform:...