Hackers Use ModernLoader to Infect Systems with Stealers and Cryptominers

As many as three disparate but related campaigns between March and Jun 2022 have been found to deliver a variety of malware, including ModernLoader, RedLine Stealer, and cryptocurrency miners onto compromised systems. "The actors use PowerShell, .NET assemblies, and HTA and VBS files to spread...

Single-Core CPU Cracked Post-Quantum Encryption Candidate Algorithm in Just an Hour

A late-stage candidate encryption algorithm that was meant to withstand decryption by powerful quantum computers in the future has been trivially cracked by using a computer running Intel Xeon CPU in an hour's time. The algorithm in question is SIKE — short for Supersingular Isogeny Key...

Hive Ransomware Upgrades to Rust for More Sophisticated Encryption Method

The operators of the Hive ransomware-as-a-service RaaS scheme have overhauled their file-encrypting software to fully migrate to Rust and adopt a more sophisticated encryption method. "With its latest variant carrying several major upgrades, Hive also proves it's one of the fastest evolving...

High-Severity RCE Vulnerability Reported in Popular Fastjson Library

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a recently patched high-severity security vulnerability in the popular Fastjson library that could be potentially exploited to achieve remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2022-25845 CVSS score: 8.1, the issue relates to a case of deserialization of...

Critical Flaw in Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Lets Attackers Bypass Authentication

Cisco on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a critical security flaw affecting Email Security Appliance ESA and Secure Email and Web Manager that could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to sidestep authentication. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2022-20798, the bypass...

U.S. Warns Against North Korean Hackers Posing as IT Freelancers

Highly skilled software and mobile app developers from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK are posing as "non-DPRK nationals" in hopes of landing freelance employment in an attempt to enable the regime's malicious cyber intrusions. That's according to a joint advisory from the U.S...

Microsoft Disrupts ZLoader Cybercrime Botnet in Global Operation

Microsoft and a consortium of cybersecurity companies took legal and technical steps to disrupt the ZLoader botnet, seizing control of 65 domains that were used to control and communicate with the infected hosts. "ZLoader is made up of computing devices in businesses, hospitals, schools, and home...

Critical ThroughTek SDK Bug Could Let Attackers Spy On Millions of IoT Devices

A security vulnerability has been found affecting several versions of ThroughTek Kalay P2P Software Development Kit SDK, which could be abused by a remote attacker to take control of an affected device and potentially lead to remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2021-28372 CVSS score: 9.6 and...

Hackers Steal Over $600 Million Worth of Cryptocurrencies from Poly Network

Hackers have siphoned $611 million worth of cryptocurrencies from a blockchain-based financial network in what's believed to be one of the largest heists targeting the digital asset industry, putting it ahead of breaches targeting exchanges Coincheck and Mt. Gox in recent years. Poly Network, a...

New Chinese Spyware Being Used in Widespread Cyber Espionage Attacks

A threat actor presumed to be of Chinese origin has been linked to a series of 10 attacks targeting Mongolia, Russia, Belarus, Canada, and the U.S. from January to July 2021 that involve the deployment of a remote access trojan RAT on infected systems, according to new research. The intrusions ha...

New TsuNAME Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Down Authoritative DNS Servers

Security researchers Thursday disclosed a new critical vulnerability affecting Domain Name System DNS resolvers that could be exploited by adversaries to carry out reflection-based denial-of-service attacks against authoritative nameservers. The flaw, called 'TsuNAME,' was discovered by researche...

How to Conduct Vulnerability Assessments: An Essential Guide for 2021

Hackers are scanning the internet for weaknesses all the time, and if you don't want your organization to fall victim, you need to be the first to find these weak spots. In other words, you have to adopt a proactive approach to managing your vulnerabilities, and a crucial first step in achieving...

Researchers uncover a new Iranian malware used in recent cyberattacks

An Iranian threat actor has unleashed a new cyberespionage campaign against a possible Lebanese target with a backdoor capable of exfiltrating sensitive information from compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Check Point attributed the operation to APT34, citing similarities with previous...

Hackers are implanting multiple backdoors at industrial targets in Japan

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of a sophisticated campaign that deploys malicious backdoors for the purpose of exfiltrating information from a number of industry sectors located in Japan. Dubbed "A41APT" by Kaspersky researchers, the findings delve into a new slew of attac...

Researchers Find 3 New Malware Strains Used by SolarWinds Hackers

FireEye and Microsoft on Thursday said they discovered three more malware strains in connection with the SolarWinds supply-chain attack, including a "sophisticated second-stage backdoor," as the investigation into the sprawling espionage campaign continues to yield fresh clues about the threat...

Report: 97% of Cybersecurity Companies Have Leaked Data on the Dark Web

In a new report into the global cybersecurity industry's exposure on the Dark Web this year, global application security company, ImmuniWeb, uncovered that 97% of leading cybersecurity companies have data leaks or other security incidents exposed on the Dark Web, while on average, there are over...

US Government Warns of a New Strain of Chinese 'Taidoor' Virus

Intelligence agencies in the US have released information about a new variant of 12-year-old computer virus used by China's state-sponsored hackers targeting governments, corporations, and think tanks. Named "Taidoor," the malware has done an 'excellent' job of compromising systems as early as...

Firefox enables DNS-over-HTTPS by default (with Cloudflare) for all U.S. users

If you use the Firefox web browser, here's an important update that you need to be aware of. Starting today, Mozilla is activating the DNS-over-HTTPS security feature by default for all Firefox users in the U.S. by automatically changing their DNS server configuration in the settings. That means,...

Evaluating Your Security Controls? Be Sure to Ask the Right Questions

Testing security controls is the only way to know if they are truly defending your organization. With many different testing frameworks and tools to choose from, you have lots of options. But what do you specifically want to know? And how are the findings relevant to the threat landscape you face...

The 2020 State of Breach Protection Survey – Call for Participation

2010-2019 decade will be remembered as the time in which cybersecurity became acknowledged as a critical concern for all organizations. With rapidly growing security needs and respective budgets, it is now more essential than ever for security decision-makers to zoom out of the 'products' mindset...

Google Makes it Tough for Rogue App Developers Get Back on Android Play Store

Even after Google's security oversight over its already-huge Android ecosystem has evolved over the years, malware apps still keep coming back to Google Play Store. Sometimes just reposting an already detected malware app from a newly created Play Store account, or using other developers' existin...

Snapchat Hack — Hacker Leaked Snapchat Source Code On GitHub

The source code of the popular social media app Snapchat was recently surfaced online after a hacker leaked and posted it on the Microsoft-owned code repository GitHub. A GitHub account under the name Khaled Alshehri with the handle i5xx, who claimed to be from Pakistan, created a GitHub reposito...

TSMC Chip Maker Blames WannaCry Malware for Production Halt

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC—the world's largest makers of semiconductors and processors—was forced to shut down several of its chip-fabrication factories over the weekend after being hit by a computer virus. Now, it turns out that the computer virus outbreak at Taiwan chipmake...

Malicious Software Packages Found On Arch Linux User Repository

Yet another incident that shows why you should never blindly trust packages from user-controlled software repositories. Arch Linux , one of the most popular independently developed Linux distributions, has removed three packages from its community-driven Arch User Repository AUR after they were...

Facebook Plans to Build Its Own Chips For Hardware Devices

A new job opening post on Facebook suggests that the social network is forming a team to build its own hardware chips, joining other tech titans like Google, Apple, and Amazon in becoming more self-reliant. According to the post, Facebook is looking for an expert in ASIC and FPGA—two custom silic...

Android P Will Block Background Apps from Accessing Your Camera, Microphone

Yes, your smartphone is spying on you. But, the real question is, should you care? We have published thousands of articles on The Hacker News, warning how any mobile app can turn your smartphone into a bugging device—'Facebook is listening to your conversations', 'Stealing Passwords Using...

Fappening 2017: More Celebrity Photos Hacked and Leaked Online

It seems like celebrities have not taken their security seriously, which once again resulted in the leaking of personal photographs of more a-listed celebrities. Dozens of personal and intimate photos of Anne Hathaway, Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart, Katharine McPhee, golfer Tiger Woods and his ex...

Latest Joomla 3.7.1 Release Patches Critical SQL Injection Attack

If your website is based on the popular Joomla content management system, make sure you have updated your platform to the latest version released today. Joomla, the world's second popular open source Content Management System, has reportedly patched a critical vulnerability in its software’s core...

How To Jailbreak iOS 7.1 And 7.1.1 Untethered Using 'Pangu' Jailbreak Tool

Quite Surprisingly, a team of Chinese hackers, Pangu have released an untethered jailbreak for iOS 7.1 and iOS 7.1.1. This untethered jailbreak is compatible with iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPad Air, iPad 4, iPad 3, iPad 2, iPad mini, Retina iPad mini and iPod touch 5G running iOS...

Turkish Hacker Crashes Google Play Store Twice while testing vulnerability

Last Weekend Google Play Store was crashed twice by a Turkish hacker when he tried to test vulnerability he discovered on the Android apps publishing system, known as Google's Developer Console. Turkish hacker 'Ibrahim Balic' claimed responsibility for the Google Play Store attack and told 'The...

Android app that notifies you whenever GPS enabled apps access your location

A team of Researchers at Rutgers University has developed an Android application which will notify you every time, whenever an app installed on your Smartphone accesses the GPS functionality. Smartphone is a multipurpose device, having features of both a mobile phone and a computer, allowing us t...

DefCamp 2013 - International Hacking and Information Security Conference in Romania

The Fourth Edition of an International Information Security Conference hosted in Romania , The DefCamp 2013 is now open for Call for Papers. Over 300 Security experts, Researchers, and Enthusiasts from Romania and neighboring countries are expected to take part in the event in Bucharest, at the...

AirDroid vulnerability allows hackers to perform Dos attack from your Android device

A vulnerability in AirDroid application which provides wireless management of your Android phone or tablet from any browser on the same Wi-Fi network allow hackers to perform Dos attack from your Android device. Cross Site scripting or XSS vulnerability in the browser version of AirDroid allows a...

Bugtraq-I : Distribution for Pentesting and forensics

Bugtraq-I : Distribution for Pentesting and forensics Bugtraq system offers the most comprehensive distribution, optimal, stable and automatic security to date. Bugtraq is a distribution based on the 2.6.38 kernel has a wide range of penetration and forensic tools. Bugtraq can be installed from a...

Shipping More AI Code Than You Can Secure? Watch How to Control Remediation Debt

If your developers are using AI coding tools, you are probably already seeing the upside: faster development, more code, and less time spent on routine work. The harder part is what comes after. AI can also introduce open-source packages at a pace your security team was never built to handle. Mor...

New HTTP/2 Bomb Vulnerability Allows Remote DoS on NGINX, Apache, IIS, Envoy & Cloudflare

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a remote denial-of-service exploit that affects major web servers, including NGINX, Apache HTTPD, Microsoft IIS, Envoy, and Cloudflare Pingora. The vulnerability has been codenamed HTTP/2 Bomb by Calif. "The vulnerable behavior exists in each server's...

CISA Adds Exploited Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One Vulnerabilities to KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Langflow and Trend Micro Apex One to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below -...

On-Prem Microsoft Exchange Server CVE-2026-42897 Exploited via Crafted Email

Microsoft has disclosed a new security vulnerability impacting on-premise versions of Exchange Server that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-42897 CVSS score: 8.1, has been described as a spoofing bug stemming from a cross-site scriptin...

RoguePilot Flaw in GitHub Codespaces Enabled Copilot to Leak GITHUB_TOKEN

A vulnerability in GitHub Codespaces could have been exploited by bad actors to seize control of repositories by injecting malicious Copilot instructions in a GitHub issue. The artificial intelligence AI-driven vulnerability has been codenamed RoguePilot by Orca Security. It has since been patche...

Webinar: What the Next Wave of AI Cyberattacks Will Look Like — And How to Survive

The AI revolution isn't coming. It's already here. From copilots that write our emails to autonomous agents that can take action without us lifting a finger, AI is transforming how we work. But here's the uncomfortable truth: Attackers are evolving just as fast. Every leap forward in AI gives bad...

New Chrome Vulnerability Enables Cross-Origin Data Leak via Loader Referrer Policy

Google on Wednesday released updates to address four security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one for which it said there exists an exploit in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-4664 CVSS score: 4.3, has been characterized as a case of insufficient policy...

Hackers Exploit WordPress mu-Plugins to Inject Spam and Hijack Site Images

Threat actors are using the "mu-plugins" directory in WordPress sites to conceal malicious code with the goal of maintaining persistent remote access and redirecting site visitors to bogus sites. mu-plugins, short for must-use plugins, refers to plugins in a special directory...

Over 1,000 WordPress Sites Infected with JavaScript Backdoors Enabling Persistent Attacker Access

Over 1,000 websites powered by WordPress have been infected with a third-party JavaScript code that injects four separate backdoors. "Creating four backdoors facilitates the attackers having multiple points of re-entry should one be detected and removed," c/side researcher Himanshu Anand said in ...

Zyxel CPE Devices Face Active Exploitation Due to Unpatched CVE-2024-40891 Vulnerability

Cybersecurity researchers are warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability impacting Zyxel CPE Series devices is seeing active exploitation attempts in the wild. "Attackers can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on affected devices, leading to complete system compromise,...

What is Nudge Security and How Does it Work?

Regain control of SaaS sprawl with Day One discovery of all SaaS and GenAI accounts along with workflows to help you mitigate security risks, curb rogue app usage, and manage SaaS spend. In today's highly distributed workplace, every employee has the ability to act as their own CIO, adopting new...

Chinese APT Gelsemium Targets Linux Systems with New WolfsBane Backdoor

The China-aligned advanced persistent threat APT actor known as Gelsemium has been observed using a new Linux backdoor dubbed WolfsBane as part of cyber attacks likely targeting East and Southeast Asia. That's according to findings from cybersecurity firm ESET based on multiple Linux samples...

Fortinet Warns of Critical Vulnerability in FortiManager Under Active Exploitation

Fortinet has confirmed details of a critical security flaw impacting FortiManager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-47575 CVSS score: 9.8, the vulnerability is also known as FortiJump and is rooted in the FortiGate to FortiManager FGFM protocol. "A missing...

China-Linked Hackers Infiltrate East Asian Firm for 3 Years Using F5 Devices

A suspected China-nexus cyber espionage actor has been attributed as behind a prolonged attack against an unnamed organization located in East Asia for a period of about three years, with the adversary establishing persistence using legacy F5 BIG-IP appliances and using it as an internal...

Ebury Botnet Malware Compromises 400,000 Linux Servers Over Past 14 Years

A malware botnet called Ebury is estimated to have compromised 400,000 Linux servers since 2009, out of which more than 100,000 were still compromised as of late 2023. The findings come from Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which characterized it as one of the most advanced server-side malware...

DOJ Arrests Founders of Crypto Mixer Samourai for $2 Billion in Illegal Transactions

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday announced the arrest of two co-founders of a cryptocurrency mixer called Samourai and seized the service for allegedly facilitating over $2 billion in illegal transactions and for laundering more than $100 million in criminal proceeds. To that end,...