Category: Uncategorized
-

WordPress King Addons Flaw Under Active Attack Lets Hackers Make Admin Accounts [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A critical security flaw impacting a WordPress plugin known as King Addons for Elementor has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-8489 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a case of privilege escalation that allows unauthenticated attackers to grant themselves administrative privileges by simply specifying the administrator user role during registration. It affects versionsRead…
-

Brazil Hit by Banking Trojan Spread via WhatsApp Worm and RelayNFC NFC Relay Fraud [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The threat actor known as Water Saci is actively evolving its tactics, switching to a sophisticated, highly layered infection chain that uses HTML Application (HTA) files and PDFs to propagate a worm that deploys a banking trojan via WhatsApp in attacks targeting users in Brazil. The latest wave is characterized by the attackers shifting from…
-

Discover the AI Tools Fueling the Next Cybercrime Wave — Watch the Webinar [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Remember when phishing emails were easy to spot? Bad grammar, weird formatting, and requests from a “Prince” in a distant country? Those days are over. Today, a 16-year-old with zero coding skills and a $200 allowance can launch a campaign that rivals state-sponsored hackers. They don’t need to be smart; they just need to subscribe…
-

Chopping AI Down to Size: Turning Disruptive Technology into a Strategic Advantage [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Most people know the story of Paul Bunyan. A giant lumberjack, a trusted axe, and a challenge from a machine that promised to outpace him. Paul doubled down on his old way of working, swung harder, and still lost by a quarter inch. His mistake was not losing the contest. His mistake was assuming that…
-

Picklescan Bugs Allow Malicious PyTorch Models to Evade Scans and Execute Code [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Three critical security flaws have been disclosed in an open-source utility called Picklescan that could allow malicious actors to execute arbitrary code by loading untrusted PyTorch models, effectively bypassing the tool’s protections. Picklescan, developed and maintained by Matthieu Maitre (@mmaitre314), is a security scanner that’s designed to parse Python pickle files and detect suspiciousRead More
-

Malicious Rust Crate Delivers OS-Specific Malware to Web3 Developer Systems [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Rust package that’s capable of targeting Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, and features malicious functionality to stealthily execute on developer machines by masquerading as an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) unit helper tool. The Rust crate, named “evm-units,” was uploaded to crates.io in mid-April 2025 by a user named “ablerust,”Read…
-
UNC1549 Critical Infrastructure Espionage Attack
What is the Attack? A suspected Iran-linked espionage group tracked as UNC1549 is actively targeting aerospace, defense, and telecommunications organizations across Europe and other regions. The threat actor employs a combination of highly tailored spear-phishing, credential theft from third-party services, and abuse of virtual desktop infrastructure such as Citrix, VMware, and Azure VDI to gain…
-

India Orders Messaging Apps to Work Only With Active SIM Cards to Prevent Fraud and Misuse [email protected] (The Hacker News)
India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued directions to app-based communication service providers to ensure that the platforms cannot be used without an active SIM card linked to the user’s mobile number. To that end, messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Arattai, Sharechat, Josh, JioChat, and Signal that use an Indian mobile number for uniquely…
-
How to use the ZMap network scanner
ZMap provides security admins with valuable information about a network’s structure and functionality. But it can also generate a DoS situation if it isn’t managed correctly.Read More
-

Researchers Capture Lazarus APT’s Remote-Worker Scheme Live on Camera [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A joint investigation led by Mauro Eldritch, founder of BCA LTD, conducted together with threat-intel initiative NorthScan and ANY.RUN, a solution for interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence, has uncovered one of North Korea’s most persistent infiltration schemes: a network of remote IT workers tied to Lazarus Group’s Famous Chollima division. For the first time,…
