Silver Fox Expands Winos 4.0 Attacks to Japan and Malaysia via HoldingHands RAT

The threat actors behind a malware family known as Winos 4.0 aka ValleyRAT have expanded their targeting footprint from China and Taiwan to target Japan and Malaysia with another remote access trojan RAT tracked as HoldingHands RAT aka Gh0stBins. "The campaign relied on phishing emails with PDFs...

North Korean Hackers Combine BeaverTail and OtterCookie into Advanced JS Malware

The North Korean threat actor linked to the Contagious Interview campaign has been observed merging some of the functionality of two of its malware programs, indicating that the hacking group is actively refining its toolset. That's according to new findings from Cisco Talos, which said recent...

Identity Security: Your First and Last Line of Defense

The danger isn't that AI agents have bad days — it's that they never do. They execute faithfully, even when what they're executing is a mistake. A single misstep in logic or access can turn flawless automation into a flawless catastrophe. This isn't some dystopian fantasy—it's Tuesday at the offi...

Researchers Uncover WatchGuard VPN Bug That Could Let Attackers Take Over Devices

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a recently patched critical security flaw in WatchGuard Fireware that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-9242 CVSS score: 9.3, is described as an out-of-bounds write...

Microsoft Revokes 200 Fraudulent Certificates Used in Rhysida Ransomware Campaign

Microsoft on Thursday disclosed that it revoked more than 200 certificates used by a threat actor it tracks as Vanilla Tempest to fraudulently sign malicious binaries in ransomware attacks. The certificates were "used in fake Teams setup files to deliver the Oyster backdoor and ultimately deploy...

North Korean Hackers Use EtherHiding to Hide Malware Inside Blockchain Smart Contracts

A threat actor with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea aka North Korea has been observed leveraging the EtherHiding technique to distribute malware and enable cryptocurrency theft, marking the first time a state-sponsored hacking group has embraced the method. The activity has been...

Hackers Abuse Blockchain Smart Contracts to Spread Malware via Infected WordPress Sites

A financially motivated threat actor codenamed UNC5142 has been observed abusing blockchain smart contracts as a way to facilitate the distribution of information stealers such as Atomic AMOS, Lumma, Rhadamanthys aka RADTHIEF, and Vidar, targeting both Windows and Apple macOS systems. "UNC5142 is...

LinkPro Linux Rootkit Uses eBPF to Hide and Activates via Magic TCP Packets

An investigation into the compromise of an Amazon Web Services AWS-hosted infrastructure has led to the discovery of a new GNU/Linux rootkit dubbed LinkPro , according to findings from Synacktiv. "This backdoor features functionalities relying on the installation of two eBPF extended Berkeley...

Architectures, Risks, and Adoption: How to Assess and Choose the Right AI-SOC Platform

Scaling the SOC with AI - Why now? Security Operations Centers SOCs are under unprecedented pressure. According to SACR's AI-SOC Market Landscape 2025 , the average organization now faces around 960 alerts per day , while large enterprises manage more than 3,000 alerts daily from an average of 28...

Hackers Deploy Linux Rootkits via Cisco SNMP Flaw in 'Zero Disco' Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that exploited a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Cisco IOS Software and IOS XE Software to deploy Linux rootkits on older, unprotected systems. The activity, codenamed Operation Zero Disco by Trend Micro, involves the...

Beware the Hidden Costs of Pen Testing

Penetration testing helps organizations ensure IT systems are secure, but it should never be treated in a one-size-fits-all approach. Traditional approaches can be rigid and cost your organization time and money – while producing inferior results. The benefits of pen testing are clear. By...

ThreatsDay Bulletin: $15B Crypto Bust, Satellite Spying, Billion-Dollar Smishing, Android RATs & More

The online world is changing fast. Every week, new scams, hacks, and tricks show how easy it's become to turn everyday technology into a weapon. Tools made to help us work, connect, and stay safe are now being used to steal, spy, and deceive. Hackers don't always break systems anymore — they use...

CISA Flags Adobe AEM Flaw with Perfect 10.0 Score — Already Under Active Attack

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Adobe Experience Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-54253 CVSS score:...

Chinese Threat Group 'Jewelbug' Quietly Infiltrated Russian IT Network for Months

A threat actor with ties to China has been attributed to a five-month-long intrusion targeting a Russian IT service provider, marking the hacking group's expansion to the country beyond Southeast Asia and South America. The activity, which took place from January to May 2025, has been attributed ...

F5 Breach Exposes BIG-IP Source Code — Nation-State Hackers Behind Massive Intrusion

U.S. cybersecurity company F5 on Wednesday disclosed that unidentified threat actors broke into its systems and stole files containing some of BIG-IP's source code and information related to undisclosed vulnerabilities in the product. It attributed the activity to a "highly sophisticated...

Over 100 VS Code Extensions Exposed Developers to Hidden Supply Chain Risks

New research has uncovered that publishers of over 100 Visual Studio Code VS Code extensions leaked access tokens that could be exploited by bad actors to update the extensions, posing a critical software supply chain risk. "A leaked VS Code Marketplace or Open VSX PAT personal access token allow...

How Attackers Bypass Synced Passkeys

TLDR Even if you take nothing else away from this piece, if your organization is evaluating passkey deployments, it is insecure to deploy synced passkeys. Synced passkeys inherit the risk of the cloud accounts and recovery processes that protect them, which creates material enterprise exposure...

Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped

Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for a whopping 183 security flaws spanning its products, including three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild, as the tech giant officially ended support for its Windows 10 operating system unless the PCs are enrolled in the...

Two CVSS 10.0 Bugs in Red Lion RTUs Could Hand Hackers Full Industrial Control

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two critical security flaws impacting Red Lion Sixne t remote terminal unit RTU products that, if successfully exploited, could result in code execution with the highest privileges. The shortcomings, tracked as CVE-2023-40151 andCVE-2023-42770 , are both...

Hackers Target ICTBroadcast Servers via Cookie Exploit to Gain Remote Shell Access

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a critical security flaw impacting ICTBroadcast, an autodialer software from ICT Innovations, has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-2611 CVSS score: 9.3, relates to improper input...

New SAP NetWeaver Bug Lets Attackers Take Over Servers Without Login

SAP has rolled out security fixes for 13 new security issues, including additional hardening for a maximum-severity bug in SAP NetWeaver AS Java that could result in arbitrary command execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-42944, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It has been described as a...

Chinese Hackers Exploit ArcGIS Server as Backdoor for Over a Year

Threat actors with ties to China have been attributed to a novel campaign that compromised an ArcGIS system and turned it into a backdoor for more than a year. The activity, per ReliaQuest, is the handiwork of a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group called Flax Typhoon , which is also tracked as...

Moving Beyond Awareness: How Threat Hunting Builds Readiness

Every October brings a familiar rhythm - pumpkin-spice everything in stores and cafés, alongside a wave of reminders, webinars, and checklists in my inbox. Halloween may be just around the corner, yet for those of us in cybersecurity, Security Awareness Month is the true seasonal milestone. Make ...

RMPocalypse: Single 8-Byte Write Shatters AMD's SEV-SNP Confidential Computing

Chipmaker AMD has released fixes to address a security flaw dubbed RMPocalypse that could be exploited to undermine confidential computing guarantees provided by Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure Nested Paging SEV-SNP. The attack, per ETH Zürich researchers Benedict Schlüter and Shweta...

New Pixnapping Android Flaw Lets Rogue Apps Steal 2FA Codes Without Permissions

Android devices from Google and Samsung have been found vulnerable to a side-channel attack that could be exploited to covertly steal two-factor authentication 2FA codes, Google Maps timelines, and other sensitive data without the users' knowledge pixel-by-pixel. The attack has been codenamed...

What AI Reveals About Web Applications— and Why It Matters

Before an attacker ever sends a payload, they've already done the work of understanding how your environment is built. They look at your login flows, your JavaScript files, your error messages, your API documentation, your GitHub repos. These are all clues that help them understand how your syste...

npm, PyPI, and RubyGems Packages Found Sending Developer Data to Discord Channels

Cybersecurity researchers have identified several malicious packages across npm, Python, and Ruby ecosystems that leverage Discord as a command-and-control C2 channel to transmit stolen data to actor-controlled webhooks. Webhooks on Discord are a way to post messages to channels in the platform...

Researchers Expose TA585's MonsterV2 Malware Capabilities and Attack Chain

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented threat actor called TA585 that has been observed delivering an off-the-shelf malware called MonsterV2 via phishing campaigns. The Proofpoint Threat Research Team described the threat activity cluster as sophisticated, leveragi...

⚡ Weekly Recap: WhatsApp Worm, Critical CVEs, Oracle 0-Day, Ransomware Cartel & More

Every week, the cyber world reminds us that silence doesn't mean safety. Attacks often begin quietly — one unpatched flaw, one overlooked credential, one backup left unencrypted. By the time alarms sound, the damage is done. This week's edition looks at how attackers are changing the game — linki...

Why Unmonitored JavaScript Is Your Biggest Holiday Security Risk

Think your WAF has you covered? Think again. This holiday season, unmonitored JavaScript is a critical oversight allowing attackers to steal payment data while your WAF and intrusion detection systems see nothing. With the 2025 shopping season weeks away, visibility gaps must close now. Get the...

Researchers Warn RondoDox Botnet is Weaponizing Over 50 Flaws Across 30+ Vendors

Malware campaigns distributing the RondoDox botnet have expanded their targeting focus to exploit more than 50 vulnerabilities across over 30 vendors. The activity, described as akin to an "exploit shotgun" approach, has singled out a wide range of internet-exposed infrastructure, including...

Microsoft Locks Down IE Mode After Hackers Turned Legacy Feature Into Backdoor

Microsoft said it has revamped the Internet Explorer IE mode in its Edge browser after receiving "credible reports" in August 2025 that unknown threat actors were abusing the backward compatibility feature to gain unauthorized access to users' devices. "Threat actors were leveraging basic social...

Astaroth Banking Trojan Abuses GitHub to Remain Operational After Takedowns

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that delivers the Astaroth banking trojan that employs GitHub as a backbone for its operations to stay resilient in the face of infrastructure takedowns. "Instead of relying solely on traditional command-and-control C2 servers that...

New Rust-Based Malware "ChaosBot" Uses Discord Channels to Control Victims' PCs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Rust-based backdoor called ChaosBot that can allow operators to conduct reconnaissance and execute arbitrary commands on compromised hosts. "Threat actors leveraged compromised credentials that mapped to both Cisco VPN and an over-privileg...

New Oracle E-Business Suite Bug Could Let Hackers Access Data Without Login

Oracle on Saturday issued a security alert warning of a fresh security flaw impacting its E-Business Suite that it said could allow unauthorized access to sensitive data. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-61884 , carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity. It affects versions from...

Experts Warn of Widespread SonicWall VPN Compromise Impacting Over 100 Accounts

Cybersecurity company Huntress on Friday warned of "widespread compromise" of SonicWall SSL VPN devices to access multiple customer environments. "Threat actors are authenticating into multiple accounts rapidly across compromised devices," it said. "The speed and scale of these attacks imply that...

Hackers Turn Velociraptor DFIR Tool Into Weapon in LockBit Ransomware Attacks

Threat actors are abusing Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response DFIR tool, in connection with ransomware attacks likely orchestrated by Storm-2603 aka CL-CRI-1040 or Gold Salem, which is known for deploying the Warlock and LockBit ransomware. The threat actor's use ...

Stealit Malware Abuses Node.js Single Executable Feature via Game and VPN Installers

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active malware campaign called Stealit that has leveraged Node.js' Single Executable Application SEA feature as a way to distribute its payloads. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, select iterations have also employed the open-source...

Microsoft Warns of 'Payroll Pirates' Hijacking HR SaaS Accounts to Steal Employee Salaries

A threat actor known as Storm-2657 has been observed hijacking employee accounts with the end goal of diverting salary payments to attacker-controlled accounts. "Storm-2657 is actively targeting a range of U.S.-based organizations, particularly employees in sectors like higher education, to gain...

From Detection to Patch: Fortra Reveals Full Timeline of CVE-2025-10035 Exploitation

Fortra on Thursday revealed the results of its investigation into CVE-2025-10035, a critical security flaw in GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer MFT that's assessed to have come under active exploitation since at least September 11, 2025. The company said it began its investigation on September 11...

The AI SOC Stack of 2026: What Sets Top-Tier Platforms Apart?

The SOC of 2026 will no longer be a human-only battlefield. As organizations scale and threats evolve in sophistication and velocity, a new generation of AI-powered agents is reshaping how Security Operations Centers SOCs detect, respond, and adapt. But not all AI SOC platforms are created equal...

175 Malicious npm Packages with 26,000 Downloads Used in Credential Phishing Campaign

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new set of 175 malicious packages on the npm registry that have been used to facilitate credential harvesting attacks as part of an unusual campaign. The packages have been collectively downloaded 26,000 times, acting as an infrastructure for a widespread...

From LFI to RCE: Active Exploitation Detected in Gladinet and TrioFox Vulnerability

Cybersecurity company Huntress said it has observed active in-the-wild exploitation of an unpatched security flaw impacting Gladinet CentreStack and TrioFox products. The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-11371 CVSS score: 6.1, is an unauthenticated local file inclusion bug that allows...

CL0P-Linked Hackers Breach Dozens of Organizations Through Oracle Software Flaw

Dozens of organizations may have been impacted following the zero-day exploitation of a security flaw in Oracle's E-Business Suite EBS software since August 9, 2025, Google Threat Intelligence Group GTIG and Mandiant said in a new report released Thursday. "We're still assessing the scope of this...

From HealthKick to GOVERSHELL: The Evolution of UTA0388's Espionage Malware

A China-aligned threat actor codenamed UTA0388 has been attributed to a series of spear-phishing campaigns targeting North America, Asia, and Europe that are designed to deliver a Go-based implant known as GOVERSHELL. "The initially observed campaigns were tailored to the targets, and the message...

New ClayRat Spyware Targets Android Users via Fake WhatsApp and TikTok Apps

A rapidly evolving Android spyware campaign called ClayRat has targeted users in Russia using a mix of Telegram channels and lookalike phishing websites by impersonating popular apps like WhatsApp, Google Photos, TikTok, and YouTube as lures to install them. "Once active, the spyware can exfiltra...

Hackers Access SonicWall Cloud Firewall Backups, Spark Urgent Security Checks

SonicWall on Wednesday disclosed that an unauthorized party accessed firewall configuration backup files for all customers who have used the cloud backup service. "The files contain encrypted credentials and configuration data; while encryption remains in place, possession of these files could...

ThreatsDay Bulletin: MS Teams Hack, MFA Hijacking, $2B Crypto Heist, Apple Siri Probe & More

Cyber threats are evolving faster than ever. Attackers now combine social engineering, AI-driven manipulation, and cloud exploitation to breach targets once considered secure. From communication platforms to connected devices, every system that enhances convenience also expands the attack surface...

SaaS Breaches Start with Tokens - What Security Teams Must Watch

Token theft is a leading cause of SaaS breaches. Discover why OAuth and API tokens are often overlooked and how security teams can strengthen token hygiene to prevent attacks. Most companies in 2025 rely on a whole range of software-as-a-service SaaS applications to run their operations. However,...

From Phishing to Malware: AI Becomes Russia's New Cyber Weapon in War on Ukraine

Russian hackers' adoption of artificial intelligence AI in cyber attacks against Ukraine has reached a new level in the first half of 2025 H1 2025, the country's State Service for Special Communications and Information Protection SSSCIP said. "Hackers now employ it not only to generate phishing...