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RondoDox Botnet Exploits Critical React2Shell Flaw to Hijack IoT Devices and Web Servers [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a persistent nine-month-long campaign that has targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices and web applications to enroll them into a botnet known as RondoDox. As of December 2025, the activity has been observed leveraging the recently disclosed React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182, CVSS score: 10.0) flaw as an initial access vector, CloudSEK…
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How To Browse Faster and Get More Done Using Adapt Browser [email protected] (The Hacker News)
As web browsers evolve into all-purpose platforms, performance and productivity often suffer. Feature overload, excessive background processes, and fragmented workflows can slow down browsing sessions and introduce unnecessary friction, especially for users who rely on the browser as a primary work environment. This article explores how adopting a lightweight, task-focused browser, likeRead More
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Trust Wallet Chrome Extension Hack Drains $8.5M via Shai-Hulud Supply Chain Attack [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Trust Wallet on Tuesday revealed that the second iteration of the Shai-Hulud (aka Sha1-Hulud) supply chain outbreak in November 2025 was likely responsible for the hack of its Google Chrome extension, ultimately resulting in the theft of approximately $8.5 million in assets. “Our Developer GitHub secrets were exposed in the attack, which gave the attacker…
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DarkSpectre Browser Extension Campaigns Exposed After Impacting 8.8 Million Users Worldwide [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The threat actor behind two malicious browser extension campaigns, ShadyPanda and GhostPoster, has been attributed to a third attack campaign codenamed DarkSpectre that has impacted 2.2 million users of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox. The activity is assessed to be the work of a Chinese threat actor that Koi Security is tracking under…
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IBM Warns of Critical API Connect Bug Allowing Remote Authentication Bypass [email protected] (The Hacker News)
IBM has disclosed details of a critical security flaw in API Connect that could allow attackers to gain remote access to the application. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-13915, is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as an authentication bypass flaw. “IBM API Connect could…
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Researchers Spot Modified Shai-Hulud Worm Testing Payload on npm Registry [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what appears to be a new strain of Shai Hulud on the npm registry with slight modifications from the previous wave observed last month. The npm package that embeds the novel Shai Hulud strain is “@vietmoney/react-big-calendar,” which was uploaded to npm back in March 2021 by a user named…
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U.S. Treasury Lifts Sanctions on Three Individuals Linked to Intellexa and Predator Spyware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday removed three individuals linked to the Intellexa Consortium, the holding company behind a commercial spyware known as Predator, from the specially designated nationals list. The names of the individuals are as follows – Merom Harpaz Andrea Nicola Constantino Hermes Gambazzi Sara…
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MongoBleed Unauthenticated Memory Leak
What is the Vulnerability? A critical vulnerability in MongoDB Server’s handling of zlib-compressed network traffic allows a fully unauthenticated remote attacker to read uninitialized heap memory and leak sensitive data directly from server memory. The flaw stems from improper buffer length handling during zlib decompression. By sending specially crafted malformed packets, an attacker can cause…
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CSA Issues Alert on Critical SmarterMail Bug Allowing Remote Code Execution [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) has issued a bulletin warning of a maximum-severity security flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail email software that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-52691, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It relates to a case of arbitrary file upload that could enable code…
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Silver Fox Targets Indian Users With Tax-Themed Emails Delivering ValleyRAT Malware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
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 Valley RAT to ensure persistence,” CloudSEK researchers Prajwal Awasthi…
