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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what has been described as the first-ever instance of a 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 npm package called “postmark-mcp” that copied an official Postmark Labs library of…

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 PlugX (aka Korplug or SOGU). “The new variant’s features overlap with both the RainyDay and Turian backdoors, including abuse of the same legitimate applications for DLL side-loading,…

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 harmful attachments,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Yurren Wan said in a report shared…

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 campaign earlier this month, described BAITSWITCH as a downloader that ultimately drops SIMPLEFIX, aRead…

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. Compliance reports tick every box.  But none of that proves what matters most to a…

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 ‘just’ a CVSS 10.0 flaw in a solution long favored…

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 Intelligence team said in a Thursday report. “It employs sophisticated encryption and obfuscationRead…

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 VIPER malware represent a significant evolution on that used in the previous campaign,…