New Android Trojan "Datzbro" Tricking Elderly with AI-Generated Facebook Travel Events

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Android banking trojan called Datzbro that can conduct device takeover DTO attacks and perform fraudulent transactions by preying on the elderly. Dutch mobile security company ThreatFabric said it discovered the campaign in August...

Evolving Enterprise Defense to Secure the Modern AI Supply Chain

The world of enterprise technology is undergoing a dramatic shift. Gen-AI adoption is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, and SaaS vendors are embedding powerful LLMs directly into their platforms. Organizations are embracing AI-powered applications across every function, from marketing and...

U.K. Police Just Seized £5.5 Billion in Bitcoin — The World's Largest Crypto Bust

A Chinese national has been convicted for her role in a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme after law enforcement authorities in the U.K. confiscated £5.5 billion about $7.39 billion during a raid of her home in London. The cryptocurrency seizure, amounting to 61,000 Bitcoin, is believed to be the...

CISA Sounds Alarm on Critical Sudo Flaw Actively Exploited in Linux and Unix Systems

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added a critical security flaw impacting the Sudo command-line utility for Linux and Unix-like operating systems to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The...

EvilAI Malware Masquerades as AI Tools to Infiltrate Global Organizations

Threat actors have been observed using seemingly legitimate artificial intelligence AI tools and software to sneakily slip malware for future attacks on organizations worldwide. According to Trend Micro, the campaign is using productivity or AI-enhanced tools to deliver malware targeting various...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Cisco 0-Day, Record DDoS, LockBit 5.0, BMC Bugs, ShadowV2 Botnet & More

Cybersecurity never stops—and neither do hackers. While you wrapped up last week, new attacks were already underway. From hidden software bugs to massive DDoS attacks and new ransomware tricks, this week's roundup gives you the biggest security moves to know. Whether you're protecting key systems...

The State of AI in the SOC 2025 - Insights from Recent Study 

Security leaders are embracing AI for triage, detection engineering, and threat hunting as alert volumes and burnout hit breaking points. A comprehensive survey of 282 security leaders at companies across industries reveals a stark reality facing modern Security Operations Centers: alert volumes...

Microsoft Flags AI-Driven Phishing: LLM-Crafted SVG Files Outsmart Email Security

Microsoft is calling attention to a new phishing campaign primarily aimed at U.S.-based organizations that has likely utilized code generated using large language models LLMs to obfuscate payloads and evade security defenses. "Appearing to be aided by a large language model LLM, the activity...

First Malicious MCP Server Found Stealing Emails in Rogue Postmark-MCP Package

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what has been described as the first-ever instance of a malicious Model Context Protocol MCP server spotted in the wild, raising software supply chain risks. According to Koi Security, a legitimate-looking developer managed to slip in rogue code within an...

China-Linked PlugX and Bookworm Malware Attacks Target Asian Telecom and ASEAN Networks

Telecommunications and manufacturing sectors in Central and South Asian countries have emerged as the target of an ongoing campaign distributing a new variant of a known malware called PlugXaka Korplug or SOGU. "The new variant's features overlap with both the RainyDay and Turian backdoors,...

Researchers Expose Phishing Threats Distributing CountLoader and PureRAT

A new campaign has been observed impersonating Ukrainian government agencies in phishing attacks to deliver CountLoader , which is then used to drop Amatera Stealer and PureMiner. "The phishing emails contain malicious Scalable Vector Graphics SVG files designed to trick recipients into opening...

New COLDRIVER Malware Campaign Joins BO Team and Bearlyfy in Russia-Focused Cyberattacks

The Russian advanced persistent threat APT group known as COLDRIVER has been attributed to a fresh round of ClickFix-style attacks designed to deliver two new "lightweight" malware families tracked as BAITSWITCH and SIMPLEFIX. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which detected the new multi-stage ClickFix campai...

Crash Tests for Security: Why BAS Is Proof of Defense, Not Assumptions

Car makers don't trust blueprints. They smash prototypes into walls. Again and again. In controlled conditions. Because design specs don't prove survival. Crash tests do. They separate theory from reality. Cybersecurity is no different. Dashboards overflow with "critical" exposure alerts...

Fortra GoAnywhere CVSS 10 Flaw Exploited as 0-Day a Week Before Public Disclosure

Cybersecurity company watchTowr Labs has disclosed that it has "credible evidence" of active exploitation of the recently disclosed security flaw in Fortra GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer MFT software as early as September 10, 2025, a whole week before it was publicly disclosed. "This is not...

New macOS XCSSET Variant Targets Firefox with Clipper and Persistence Module

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of a known Apple macOS malware called XCSSET that has been observed in limited attacks. "This new variant of XCSSET brings key changes related to browser targeting, clipboard hijacking, and persistence mechanisms," the Microsoft Threat...

Cisco ASA Firewall Zero-Day Exploits Deploy RayInitiator and LINE VIPER Malware

The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has revealed that threat actors have exploited the recently disclosed security flaws impacting Cisco firewalls as part of zero-day attacks to deliver previously undocumented malware families like RayInitiator and LINE VIPER. "The RayInitiator and LINE...

Urgent: Cisco ASA Zero-Day Duo Under Attack; CISA Triggers Emergency Mitigation Directive

Cisco is urging customers to patch two security flaws impacting the VPN web server of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense FTD Software, which it said have been exploited in the wild. The zero-day vulnerabilities in question are...

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Rootkit Patch, Federal Breach, OnePlus SMS Leak, TikTok Scandal & More

Welcome to this week's Threatsday Bulletin —your Thursday check-in on the latest twists and turns in cybersecurity and hacking. The digital threat landscape never stands still. One week it's a critical zero-day, the next it's a wave of phishing lures or a state-backed disinformation push. Each...

Vane Viper Generates 1 Trillion DNS Queries to Power Global Malware and Ad Fraud Network

The threat actor known as Vane Viper has been outed as a purveyor of malicious ad technology adtech, while relying on a tangled web of shell companies and opaque ownership structures to deliberately evade responsibility. "Vane Viper has provided core infrastructure in widespread malvertising, ad...

Salesforce Patches Critical ForcedLeak Bug Exposing CRM Data via AI Prompt Injection

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical flaw impacting Salesforce Agentforce, a platform for building artificial intelligence AI agents, that could allow attackers to potentially exfiltrate sensitive data from its customer relationship management CRM tool by means of an indirect promp...

North Korean Hackers Use New AkdoorTea Backdoor to Target Global Crypto Developers

The North Korea-linked threat actors associated with the Contagious Interview campaign have been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called AkdoorTea, along with tools like TsunamiKit and Tropidoor. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which is tracking the activity under the name...

CTEM's Core: Prioritization and Validation

Despite a coordinated investment of time, effort, planning, and resources, even the most up-to-date cybersecurity systems continue to fail. Every day. Why? It's not because security teams can't see enough. Quite the contrary. Every security tool spits out thousands of findings. Patch this. Block...

Tech Overtakes Gaming as Top DDoS Attack Target, New Gcore Radar Report Finds

The latest Gcore Radar report analyzing attack data from Q1–Q2 2025, reveals a 41% year-on-year increase in total attack volume. The largest attack peaked at 2.2 Tbps, surpassing the 2 Tbps record in late 2024. Attacks are growing not only in scale but in sophistication, with longer durations,...

Malicious Rust Crates Steal Solana and Ethereum Keys — 8,424 Downloads Confirmed

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Rust crates impersonating a legitimate library called fastlog to steal Solana and Ethereum wallet keys from source code. The crates, named fasterlog and asyncprintln, were published by the threat actor under the alias rustguruman and...

Cisco Warns of Actively Exploited SNMP Vulnerability Allowing RCE or DoS in IOS Software

Cisco has warned of a high-severity security flaw in IOS Software and IOS XE Software that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial-of-service DoS condition under specific circumstances. The company said the vulnerability, CVE-2025-20352 CVSS score: 7.7, has bee...

Chinese Hackers RedNovember Target Global Governments Using Pantegana and Cobalt Strike

A suspected cyber espionage activity cluster that was previously found targeting global government and private sector organizations spanning Africa, Asia, North America, South America, and Oceania has been assessed to be a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor. Recorded Future, which was tracking...

UNC5221 Uses BRICKSTORM Backdoor to Infiltrate U.S. Legal and Technology Sectors

Companies in the legal services, software-as-a-service SaaS providers, Business Process Outsourcers BPOs, and technology sectors in the U.S. have been targeted by a suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group to deliver a known backdoor referred to as BRICKSTORM. The activity, attributed to UNC52...

Two Critical Flaws Uncovered in Wondershare RepairIt Exposing User Data and AI Models

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Wondershare RepairIt that exposed private user data and potentially exposed the system to artificial intelligence AI model tampering and supply chain risks. The critical-rated vulnerabilities in question, discovered by Trend Micro, ar...

How One Bad Password Ended a 158-Year-Old Business

Most businesses don't make it past their fifth birthday - studies show that roughly 50% of small businesses fail within the first five years. So when KNP Logistics Group formerly Knights of Old celebrated more than a century and a half of operations, it had mastered the art of survival. For 158...

New YiBackdoor Malware Shares Major Code Overlaps with IcedID and Latrodectus

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malware family dubbed YiBackdoor that has been found to share "significant" source code overlaps with IcedID and Latrodectus. "The exact connection to YiBackdoor is not yet clear, but it may be used in conjunction with Latrodectus and Iced...

iframe Security Exposed: The Blind Spot Fueling Payment Skimmer Attacks

Think payment iframes are secure by design? Think again. Sophisticated attackers have quietly evolved malicious overlay techniques to exploit checkout pages and steal credit card data by bypassing the very security policies designed to stop them. Download the complete iframe security guide here...

Hackers Exploit Pandoc CVE-2025-51591 to Target AWS IMDS and Steal EC2 IAM Credentials

Cloud security company Wiz has revealed that it uncovered in-the-wild exploitation of a security flaw in a Linux utility called Pandoc as part of attacks designed to infiltrate Amazon Web Services AWS Instance Metadata Service IMDS. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-51591 CVSS score: 6.5,...

State-Sponsored Hackers Exploiting Libraesva Email Security Gateway Vulnerability

Libraesva has released a security update to address a vulnerability in its Email Security Gateway ESG solution that it said has been exploited by state-sponsored threat actors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-59689 , carries a CVSS score of 6.1, indicating medium severity. "Libraesva ESG i...

Two New Supermicro BMC Bugs Allow Malicious Firmware to Evade Root of Trust Security

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two security vulnerabilities impacting Supermicro Baseboard Management Controller BMC firmware that could potentially allow attackers to bypass crucial verification steps and update the system with a specially crafted image. The medium-severity...

Eurojust Arrests 5 in €100M Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud Spanning 23 Countries

Law enforcement authorities in Europe have arrested five suspects in connection with an "elaborate" online investment fraud scheme that stole more than €100 million $118 million from over 100 victims in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. According to Eurojust, the coordinated action saw searches ...

U.S. Secret Service Seizes 300 SIM Servers, 100K Cards Threatening U.S. Officials Near UN

The U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday said it took down a network of electronic devices located across the New York tri-state area that were used to threaten U.S. government officials and posed an imminent threat to national security. "This protective intelligence investigation led to the discovery ...

SolarWinds Releases Hotfix for Critical CVE-2025-26399 Remote Code Execution Flaw

SolarWinds has released hot fixes to address a critical security flaw impacting its Web Help Desk software that, if successfully exploited, could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-26399 CVSS score: 9.8, has been described ...

Lean Teams, Higher Stakes: Why CISOs Must Rethink Incident Remediation

Big companies are getting smaller, and their CEOs want everyone to know it. Wells Fargo has cut its workforce by 23% over five years, Bank of America has shed 88,000 employees since 2010, and Verizon's CEO recently boasted that headcount is "going down all the time." What was once a sign of...

ShadowV2 Botnet Exploits Misconfigured AWS Docker Containers for DDoS-for-Hire Service

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet that customers can rent access to conduct distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks against targets of interest. The ShadowV2 botnet, according to Darktrace, predominantly targets misconfigured Docker containers on Amazon Web...

GitHub Mandates 2FA and Short-Lived Tokens to Strengthen npm Supply Chain Security

GitHub on Monday announced that it will be changing its authentication and publishing options "in the near future" in response to a recent wave of supply chain attacks targeting the npm ecosystem, including the Shai-Hulud attack. This includes steps to address threats posed by token abuse and...

BadIIS Malware Spreads via SEO Poisoning — Redirects Traffic, Plants Web Shells

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a search engine optimization SEO poisoning campaign likely undertaken by a Chinese-speaking threat actor using a malware called BadIIS in attacks targeting East and Southeast Asia, particularly with a focus on Vietnam. The activity, dubbed...

ComicForm and SectorJ149 Hackers Deploy Formbook Malware in Eurasian Cyberattacks

Organizations in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia have emerged as the target of a phishing campaign undertaken by a previously undocumented hacking group called ComicForm since at least April 2025. The activity primarily targeted industrial, financial, tourism, biotechnology, research, and trade...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, AI Hacking Tools, DDR5 Bit-Flips, npm Worm & More

The security landscape now moves at a pace no patch cycle can match. Attackers aren't waiting for quarterly updates or monthly fixes—they adapt within hours, blending fresh techniques with old, forgotten flaws to create new openings. A vulnerability closed yesterday can become the blueprint for...

How to Gain Control of AI Agents and Non-Human Identities

We hear this a lot: "We've got hundreds of service accounts and AI agents running in the background. We didn't create most of them. We don't know who owns them. How are we supposed to secure them?" Every enterprise today runs on more than users. Behind the scenes, thousands of non-human identitie...

Microsoft Patches Critical Entra ID Flaw Enabling Global Admin Impersonation Across Tenants

A critical token validation failure in Microsoft Entra ID previously Azure Active Directory could have allowed attackers to impersonate any user, including Global Administrators, across any tenant. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55241 , has been assigned the maximum CVSS score of 10.0. It...

DPRK Hackers Use ClickFix to Deliver BeaverTail Malware in Crypto Job Scams

Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea aka DPRK or North Korea have been observed leveraging ClickFix-style lures to deliver a known malware called BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret. "The threat actor used ClickFix lures to target marketing and trader roles in...

LastPass Warns of Fake Repositories Infecting macOS with Atomic Infostealer

LastPass is warning of an ongoing, widespread information stealer campaign targeting Apple macOS users through fake GitHub repositories that distribute malware-laced programs masquerading as legitimate tools. "In the case of LastPass, the fraudulent repositories redirected potential victims to a...

Researchers Uncover GPT-4-Powered MalTerminal Malware Creating Ransomware, Reverse Shell

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the earliest example known to date of a malware with that bakes in Large Language Model LLM capabilities. The malware has been codenamed MalTerminal by SentinelOne SentinelLABS research team. The findings were presented at the LABScon 202...

ShadowLeak Zero-Click Flaw Leaks Gmail Data via OpenAI ChatGPT Deep Research Agent

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a zero-click flaw in OpenAI ChatGPT's Deep Research agent that could allow an attacker to leak sensitive Gmail inbox data with a single crafted email without any user action. The new class of attack has been codenamed ShadowLeak by Radware. Following...

UNC1549 Hacks 34 Devices in 11 Telecom Firms via LinkedIn Job Lures and MINIBIKE Malware

An Iran-nexus cyber espionage group known as UNC1549 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting European telecommunications companies, successfully infiltrating 34 devices across 11 organizations as part of a recruitment-themed activity on LinkedIn. Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT is...