“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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XE Hacker Group Exploits VeraCore Zero-Day to Deploy Persistent Web Shells [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat actors have been observed exploiting multiple security flaws in various software products, including Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX and Advantive VeraCore, to drop reverse shells and web shells, and maintain persistent remote access to compromised systems. The zero-day exploitation of security flaws in VeraCore has been attributed to a threat actor known as…
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Trimble Cityworks Remote Code Execution Attack
What is the Attack?Trimble Cityworks contains a deserialization vulnerability. This could allow an authenticated user to perform a remote code execution attack against a customer’s Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server, potentially resulting in downtime and potential loss of service. According to Trimble Cityworks website, it provides a Geographic Information System (GIS)-centric solution for…
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Malicious ML Models on Hugging Face Leverage Broken Pickle Format to Evade Detection [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious machine learning (ML) models on Hugging Face that leveraged an unusual technique of “broken” pickle files to evade detection. “The pickle files extracted from the mentioned PyTorch archives revealed the malicious Python content at the beginning of the file,” ReversingLabs researcher Karlo Zanki said in a report shared with…
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DeepSeek App Transmits Sensitive User and Device Data Without Encryption [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A new audit of DeepSeek’s mobile app for the Apple iOS operating system has found glaring security issues, the foremost being that it sends sensitive data over the internet sans any encryption, exposing it to interception and manipulation attacks. The assessment comes from NowSecure, which also found that the app fails to adhere to best…
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Ransomware hits healthcare, critical services in January
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CISA Warns of Active Exploitation in Trimble Cityworks Vulnerability Leading to IIS RCE [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that a security flaw impacting Trimble Cityworks GIS-centric asset management software has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-0994 (CVSS v4 score: 8.6), a deserialization of untrusted data bug that could permit an attacker to conduct remote code execution.…
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AI-Powered Social Engineering: Reinvented Threats [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The foundations for social engineering attacks – manipulating humans – might not have changed much over the years. It’s the vectors – how these techniques are deployed – that are evolving. And like most industries these days, AI is accelerating its evolution. This article explores how these changes are impacting business, and how cybersecurity leaders…
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The advantages and disadvantages of AI in cybersecurity
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Microsoft Identifies 3,000+ Publicly Disclosed ASP.NET Machine Keys Vulnerable to Code Injection [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Microsoft is warning of an insecure practice wherein software developers are incorporating publicly disclosed ASP.NET machine keys from publicly accessible resources, thereby putting their applications in attackers’ pathway. The tech giant’s threat intelligence team said it observed limited activity in December 2024 that involved an unknown threat actor using a publicly available, static ASP.NETRead More
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India’s RBI Introduces Exclusive “bank.in” Domain to Combat Digital Banking Fraud [email protected] (The Hacker News)
India’s central bank, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), said it’s introducing an exclusive “bank.in” internet domain for banks in the country to combat digital financial fraud. “This initiative aims to reduce cyber security threats and malicious activities like phishing; and, streamline secure financial services, thereby enhancing trust in digital banking and payment services,” the…
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