Rust-based Myth Stealer Malware Spread via Fake Gaming Sites Targets Chrome, Firefox Users

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented Rust-based information stealer called Myth Stealer that's being propagated via fraudulent gaming websites. "Upon execution, the malware displays a fake window to appear legitimate while simultaneously decrypting and executing...

The Hidden Threat in Your Stack: Why Non-Human Identity Management is the Next Cybersecurity Frontier

Modern enterprise networks are highly complex environments that rely on hundreds of apps and infrastructure services. These systems need to interact securely and efficiently without constant human oversight, which is where non-human identities NHIs come in. NHIs — including application secrets, A...

Researcher Found Flaw to Discover Phone Numbers Linked to Any Google Account

Google has stepped in to address a security flaw that could have made it possible to brute-force an account's recovery phone number, potentially exposing them to privacy and security risks. The issue, according to Singaporean security researcher "brutecat," leverages an issue in the company's...

Rare Werewolf APT Uses Legitimate Software in Attacks on Hundreds of Russian Enterprises

The threat actor known as Rare Werewolf formerly Rare Wolf has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS countries. "A distinctive feature of this threat is that the attackers favor using legitimate third-party software over developin...

CISA Adds Erlang SSH and Roundcube Flaws to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added two critical security flaws impacting Erlang/Open Telecom Platform OTP SSH and Roundcube to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are...

Over 70 Organizations Across Multiple Sectors Targeted by China-Linked Cyber Espionage Group

The reconnaissance activity targeting American cybersecurity company SentinelOne was part of a broader set of partially-related intrusions into several targets between July 2024 and March 2025. "The victimology includes a South Asian government entity, a European media organization, and more than...

Two Distinct Botnets Exploit Wazuh Server Vulnerability to Launch Mirai-Based Attacks

A now-patched critical security flaw in the Wazur Server is being exploited by threat actors to drop two different Mirai botnet variants and use them to conduct distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. Akamai, which first discovered the exploitation efforts in late March 2025, said the malicio...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, Data Wipers, Misused Tools and Zero-Click iPhone Attacks

Behind every security alert is a bigger story. Sometimes it's a system being tested. Sometimes it's trust being lost in quiet ways—through delays, odd behavior, or subtle gaps in control. This week, we're looking beyond the surface to spot what really matters. Whether it's poor design, hidden...

Think Your IdP or CASB Covers Shadow IT? These 5 Risks Prove Otherwise

You don’t need a rogue employee to suffer a breach. All it takes is a free trial that someone forgot to cancel. An AI-powered note-taker quietly syncing with your Google Drive. A personal Gmail account tied to a business-critical tool. That’s shadow IT. And today, it’s not just about unsanctioned...

OpenAI Bans ChatGPT Accounts Used by Russian, Iranian, and Chinese Hacker Groups

OpenAI has revealed that it banned a set of ChatGPT accounts that were likely operated by Russian-speaking threat actors and two Chinese nation-state hacking groups to assist with malware development, social media automation, and research about U.S. satellite communications technologies, among...

New Supply Chain Malware Operation Hits npm and PyPI Ecosystems, Targeting Millions Globally

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a supply chain attack targeting over a dozen packages associated with GlueStack to deliver malware. The malware, introduced via a change to "lib/commonjs/index.js," allows an attacker to run shell commands, take screenshots, and upload files to infected...

Malicious Browser Extensions Infect Over 700 Users Across Latin America Since Early 2025

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new campaign targeting Brazilian users since the start of 2025 to infect users with a malicious extension for Chromium-based web browsers and siphon user authentication data. "Some of the phishing emails were sent from the servers of compromised...

New Atomic macOS Stealer Campaign Exploits ClickFix to Target Apple Users

Cybersecurity researchers are alerting to a new malware campaign that employs the ClickFix social engineering tactic to trick users into downloading an information stealer malware known as Atomic macOS Stealer AMOS on Apple macOS systems. The campaign, according to CloudSEK, has been found to...

Empower Users and Protect Against GenAI Data Loss

When generative AI tools became widely available in late 2022, it wasn't just technologists who paid attention. Employees across all industries immediately recognized the potential of generative AI to boost productivity, streamline communication and accelerate work. Like so many waves of...

Microsoft Helps CBI Dismantle Indian Call Centers Behind Japanese Tech Support Scam

India's Central Bureau of Investigation CBI has revealed that it has arrested six individuals and dismantled two illegal call centers that were found to be engaging in a sophisticated transnational tech support scam targeting Japanese citizens. The law enforcement agency said it conducted...

Inside the Mind of the Adversary: Why More Security Leaders Are Selecting AEV

Cybersecurity involves both playing the good guy and the bad guy. Diving deep into advanced technologies and yet also going rogue in the Dark Web. Defining technical policies and also profiling attacker behavior. Security teams cannot be focused on just ticking boxes, they need to inhabit the...

New PathWiper Data Wiper Malware Disrupts Ukrainian Critical Infrastructure in 2025 Attack

A critical infrastructure entity within Ukraine was targeted by a previously unseen data wiper malware named PathWiper, according to new findings from Cisco Talos. "The attack was instrumented via a legitimate endpoint administration framework, indicating that the attackers likely had access to t...

Popular Chrome Extensions Leak API Keys, User Data via HTTP and Hard-Coded Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged several popular Google Chrome extensions that have been found to transmit data in HTTP and hard-code secrets in their code, exposing users to privacy and security risks. "Several widely used extensions ... unintentionally transmit sensitive data over simple...

Researchers Detail Bitter APT's Evolving Tactics as Its Geographic Scope Expands

The threat actor known as Bitter has been assessed to be a state-backed hacking group that's tasked with gathering intelligence that aligns with the interests of the Indian government. That's according to new findings jointly published by Proofpoint and Threatray in an exhaustive two-part analysi...

Redefining Cyber Value: Why Business Impact Should Lead the Security Conversation

Security teams face growing demands with more tools, more data, and higher expectations than ever. Boards approve large security budgets, yet still ask the same question: what is the business getting in return? CISOs respond with reports on controls and vulnerability counts – but executives want ...

Iran-Linked BladedFeline Hits Iraqi and Kurdish Targets with Whisper and Spearal Malware

An Iran-aligned hacking group has been attributed to a new set of cyber attacks targeting Kurdish and Iraqi government officials in early 2024. The activity is tied to a threat group ESET tracks as BladedFeline , which is assessed with medium confidence to be a sub-cluster within OilRig, a known...

DoJ Seizes 145 Domains Tied to BidenCash Carding Marketplace in Global Takedown

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday announced the seizure of cryptocurrency funds and about 145 clearnet and dark web domains associated with an illicit carding marketplace called BidenCash. "The operators of the BidenCash marketplace use the platform to simplify the process of buying...

Critical Cisco ISE Auth Bypass Flaw Impacts Cloud Deployments on AWS, Azure, and OCI

Cisco has released security patches to address a critical security flaw impacting the Identity Services Engine ISE that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated actors to carry out malicious actions on susceptible systems. The security defect, tracked as CVE-2025-20286 , carries a...

Google Exposes Vishing Group UNC6040 Targeting Salesforce with Fake Data Loader App

Google has disclosed details of a financially motivated threat cluster that it said "specializes" in voice phishing aka vishing campaigns designed to breach organizations' Salesforce instances for large-scale data theft and subsequent extortion. The tech giant's threat intelligence team is tracki...

Chaos RAT Malware Targets Windows and Linux via Fake Network Tool Downloads

Threat hunters are calling attention to a new variant of a remote access trojan RAT called Chaos RAT that has been used in recent attacks targeting Windows and Linux systems. According to findings from Acronis, the malware artifact may have been distributed by tricking victims into downloading a...

Your SaaS Data Isn't Safe: Why Traditional DLP Solutions Fail in the Browser Era

Traditional data leakage prevention DLP tools aren't keeping pace with the realities of how modern businesses use SaaS applications. Companies today rely heavily on SaaS platforms like Google Workspace, Salesforce, Slack, and generative AI tools, significantly altering the way sensitive informati...

Malicious PyPI, npm, and Ruby Packages Exposed in Ongoing Open-Source Supply Chain Attacks

Several malicious packages have been uncovered across the npm, Python, and Ruby package repositories that drain funds from cryptocurrency wallets, erase entire codebases after installation, and exfiltrate Telegram API tokens, once again demonstrating the variety of supply chain threats lurking in...

HPE Issues Security Patch for StoreOnce Bug Allowing Remote Authentication Bypass

Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE has released security updates to address as many as eight vulnerabilities in its StoreOnce data backup and deduplication solution that could result in an authentication bypass and remote code execution. "These vulnerabilities could be remotely exploited to allow...

Fake DocuSign, Gitcode Sites Spread NetSupport RAT via Multi-Stage PowerShell Attack

Threat hunters are alerting to a new campaign that employs deceptive websites to trick unsuspecting users into executing malicious PowerShell scripts on their machines and infect them with the NetSupport RAT malware. The DomainTools Investigations DTI team said it identified "malicious multi-stag...

Critical 10-Year-Old Roundcube Webmail Bug Allows Authenticated Users Run Malicious Code

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical security flaw in the Roundcube webmail software that has gone unnoticed for a decade and could be exploited to take over susceptible systems and execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-49113 , carries a CVSS sco...

Scattered Spider: Understanding Help Desk Scams and How to Defend Your Organization

In the wake of high-profile attacks on UK retailers Marks & Spencer and Co-op, Scattered Spider has been all over the media, with coverage spilling over into the mainstream news due to the severity of the disruption caused — currently looking like hundreds of millions in lost profits for M&S alon...

Android Trojan Crocodilus Now Active in 8 Countries, Targeting Banks and Crypto Wallets

A growing number of malicious campaigns have leveraged a recently discovered Android banking trojan called Crocodilus to target users in Europe and South America. The malware, according to a new report published by ThreatFabric, has also adopted improved obfuscation techniques to hinder analysis...

Google Chrome to Distrust Two Certificate Authorities Over Compliance and Conduct Issues

Google has revealed that it will no longer trust digital certificates issued by Chunghwa Telecom and Netlock citing "patterns of concerning behavior observed over the past year." The changes are expected to be introduced in Chrome 139, which is scheduled for public release in early August 2025. T...

Microsoft and CrowdStrike Launch Shared Threat Actor Glossary to Cut Attribution Confusion

Microsoft and CrowdStrike have announced that they are teaming up to align their individual threat actor taxonomies by publishing a new joint threat actor mapping. "By mapping where our knowledge of these actors align, we will provide security professionals with the ability to connect insights...

New Chrome Zero-Day Actively Exploited; Google Issues Emergency Out-of-Band Patch

Google on Monday released out-of-band fixes to address three security issues in its Chrome browser, including one that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity flaw is being tracked as CVE-2025-5419 CVSS score: 8.8, and has been flagged as an out-of-bounds read an...

Cryptojacking Campaign Exploits DevOps APIs Using Off-the-Shelf Tools from GitHub

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new cryptojacking campaign that's targeting publicly accessible DevOps web servers such as those associated with Docker, Gitea, and HashiCorp Consul and Nomad to illicitly mine cryptocurrencies. Cloud security firm Wiz, which is tracking the activity...

Preinstalled Apps on Ulefone, Krüger&Matz Phones Let Any App Reset Device, Steal PIN

Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in preloaded Android applications on smartphones from Ulefone and Krüger&Matz that could enable any app installed on the device to perform a factory reset and encrypt an application. A brief description of the three flaws is as follows -...

Qualcomm Fixes 3 Zero-Days Used in Targeted Android Attacks via Adreno GPU

Qualcomm has shipped security updates to address three zero-day vulnerabilities that it said have been exploited in limited, targeted attacks in the wild. The flaws in question, which were responsibly disclosed to the company by the Google Android Security team, are listed below - CVE-2025-21479...

⚡ Weekly Recap: APT Intrusions, AI Malware, Zero-Click Exploits, Browser Hijacks and More

If this had been a security drill, someone would've said it went too far. But it wasn't a drill—it was real. The access? Everything looked normal. The tools? Easy to find. The detection? Came too late. This is how attacks happen now—quiet, convincing, and fast. Defenders aren't just chasing hacke...

The Secret Defense Strategy of Four Critical Industries Combating Advanced Cyber Threats

The evolution of cyber threats has forced organizations across all industries to rethink their security strategies. As attackers become more sophisticated — leveraging encryption, living-off-the-land techniques, and lateral movement to evade traditional defenses — security teams are finding more...

Fake Recruiter Emails Target CFOs Using Legit NetBird Tool Across 6 Global Regions

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new spear-phishing campaign that uses a legitimate remote access tool called Netbird to target Chief Financial Officers CFOs and financial executives at banks, energy companies, insurers, and investment firms across Europe, Africa, Canada, the Middle Eas...

New Linux Flaws Allow Password Hash Theft via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora

Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU. Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs...

U.S. DoJ Seizes 4 Domains Supporting Cybercrime Crypting Services in Global Operation

A multinational law enforcement operation has resulted in the takedown of an online cybercrime syndicate that offered services to threat actors to ensure that their malicious software stayed undetected from security software. To that effect, the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ said it seized four...

New EDDIESTEALER Malware Bypasses Chrome's App-Bound Encryption to Steal Browser Data

A new malware campaign is distributing a novel Rust-based information stealer dubbed EDDIESTEALER using the popular ClickFix social engineering tactic initiated via fake CAPTCHA verification pages. "This campaign leverages deceptive CAPTCHA verification pages that trick users into executing a...

China-Linked Hackers Exploit SAP and SQL Server Flaws in Attacks Across Asia and Brazil

The China-linked threat actor behind the recent in-the-wild exploitation of a critical security flaw in SAP NetWeaver has been attributed to a broader set of attacks targeting organizations in Brazil, India, and Southeast Asia since 2023. "The threat actor mainly targets the SQL injection...

From the "Department of No" to a "Culture of Yes": A Healthcare CISO's Journey to Enabling Modern Care

Breaking Out of the Security Mosh Pit When Jason Elrod, CISO of MultiCare Health System, describes legacy healthcare IT environments, he doesn't mince words: "Healthcare loves to walk backwards into the future. And this is how we got here, because there are a lot of things that we could have...

U.S. Sanctions Funnull for $200M Romance Baiting Scams Tied to Crypto Fraud

The U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC has levied sanctions against a Philippines-based company named Funnull Technology Inc. and its administrator Liu Lizhi for providing infrastructure to conduct romance baiting scams that led to massive cryptocurrency losses. T...

ConnectWise Hit by Cyberattack; Nation-State Actor Suspected in Targeted Breach

ConnectWise, the developer of remote access and support software ScreenConnect, has disclosed that it was the victim of a cyber attack that it said was likely perpetrated by a nation-state threat actor. "ConnectWise recently learned of suspicious activity within our environment that we believe wa...

Meta Disrupts Influence Ops Targeting Romania, Azerbaijan, and Taiwan with Fake Personas

Meta on Thursday revealed that it disrupted three covert influence operations originating from Iran, China, and Romania during the first quarter of 2025. "We detected and removed these campaigns before they were able to build authentic audiences on our apps," the social media giant said in its...

Cybercriminals Target AI Users with Malware-Loaded Installers Posing as Popular Tools

Fake installers for popular artificial intelligence AI tools like OpenAI ChatGPT and InVideo AI are being used as lures to propagate various threats, such as the CyberLock and LuckyGh0$t ransomware families, and a new malware dubbed Numero. "CyberLock ransomware, developed using PowerShell,...