Google Links China, Iran, Russia, North Korea to Coordinated Defense Sector Cyber Operations

Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights on the defense industrial base DIB sector, according to findings from Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG. The tech giant's threat intelligence division...

CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’

US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet...

WordPress GMap Targeting plugin <= 1.1.7 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Skalucy in WordPress Plugin GMap Targeting versions = 1.1.7...

Iran-Linked RedKitten Cyber Campaign Targets Human Rights NGOs and Activists

A Farsi-speaking threat actor aligned with Iranian state interests is suspected to be behind a new campaign targeting non-governmental organizations and individuals involved in documenting recent human rights abuses. The activity, observed by HarfangLab in January 2026, has been codenamed...

CVE-2026-1408 Beetel 777VR1 UART weak password

A weakness has been identified in Beetel 777VR1 up to 01.00.09/01.00.0955. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component UART Interface. Executing a manipulation can lead to weak password requirements. The physical device can be targeted for the attack. The attack requires a high level...

US Hackers Reportedly Caused a Blackout in Venezuela

Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more...

CVE-2026-22645

The application discloses all used components, versions and license information to unauthenticated actors, giving attackers the opportunity to target known security vulnerabilities of used components...

Hiding in Plain Sight: Multi-Actor ahost.exe Attacks

Hiding in Plain Sight: Deconstructing the Multi-Actor DLL Sideloading Campaign abusing ahost.exe By Mallikarjun Wali and Mohideen Abdul Khader · January 14, 2026 Executive summary The Trellix Advanced Research Center has uncovered an active malware campaign that exploits a DLL sideloading...

CVE-2018-14777

An issue was discovered in DataLife Engine DLE through 13.0. An attacker can use XSS related to the /addnews.html and /index.php?do=addnews URIs to send a malicious script to unsuspecting Admins or users...

Silver Fox Targets Indian Users With Tax-Themed Emails Delivering ValleyRAT Malware

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has turned its focus to India, using income tax-themed lures in phishing campaigns to distribute a modular remote access trojan called ValleyRAT aka Winos 4.0. "This sophisticated attack leverages a complex kill chain involving DLL hijacking and the modular...

Exploit for CVE-2025-14174

CVE-2025-14174 PoC Exploit Repository Overview This reposi...

SpyCloud Data Shows Corporate Users 3x More Likely to Be Targeted by Phishing Than by Malware

Austin, TX, USA, 4th December 2025, CyberNewsWire...

Malicious Package

Overview node-tailwind is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code associated with a social engineering campaign called "Contagious Interview." The attackers target developers through fake job interviews or coding test assignments that require the installation of this package. On...

CISA Warns of Active Spyware Campaigns Hijacking High-Value Signal and WhatsApp Users

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday issued an alert warning of bad actors actively leveraging commercial spyware and remote access trojans RATs to target users of mobile messaging applications. "These cyber actors use sophisticated targeting and social...

New Sturnus Android Trojan Quietly Captures Encrypted Chats and Hijacks Devices

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Sturnus that enables credential theft and full device takeover to conduct financial fraud. "A key differentiator is its ability to bypass encrypted messaging," ThreatFabric said in a report shared with The...

Iran-Linked Hackers Mapped Ship AIS Data Days Before Real-World Missile Strike Attempt

Threat actors with ties to Iran engaged in cyber warfare as part of efforts to facilitate and enhance physical, real-world attacks, a trend that Amazon has called cyber-enabled kinetic targeting. The development is a sign that the lines between state-sponsored cyber attacks and kinetic warfare ar...

5 Reasons Why Attackers Are Phishing Over LinkedIn

Phishing attacks are no longer confined to the email inbox, with 1 in 3 phishing attacks now taking place over non-email channels like social media, search engines, and messaging apps. LinkedIn in particular has become a hotbed for phishing attacks, and for good reason. Attackers are running...

Iranian Hackers Launch 'SpearSpecter' Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. The activity, detected in early September 2025 and assessed to be...

Singling out People without Knowing Their Names - Behavioural Targeting, Pseudonymous Data, and the New Data Protection Regulation

Information about millions of people is collected for behavioural targeting, a type of marketing that involves tracking people's online behaviour for targeted advertising. It is hotly debated whether data protection law applies to behavioural targeting. Many behavioural targeting companies say...

Fake CAPTCHA sites now have tutorial videos to help victims install malware

Early on in 2025, I described how criminals used fake CAPTCHA sites and a clipboard hijacker to provide instructions for website visitors that would effectively infect their own machines with an information stealer known as the Lumma Stealer. ClickFix is the name researchers have since given to...