“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Rust Adoption Drives Android Memory Safety Bugs Below 20% for First Time [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Google has disclosed that the company’s continued adoption of the Rust programming language in Android has resulted in the number of memory safety vulnerabilities falling below 20% for the first time. “We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code.…
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RondoDox Exploits Unpatched XWiki Servers to Pull More Devices Into Its Botnet [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The botnet malware known as RondoDox has been observed targeting unpatched XWiki instances against a critical security flaw that could allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-24893 (CVSS score: 9.8), an eval injection bug that could allow any guest user to perform arbitrary remote code execution through a request…
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Five U.S. Citizens Plead Guilty to Helping North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate 136 Companies [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday announced that five individuals have pleaded guilty to assisting North Korea’s illicit revenue generation schemes by enabling information technology (IT) worker fraud in violation of international sanctions. The five individuals are listed below – Audricus Phagnasay, 24 Jason Salazar, 30 Alexander Paul Travis, 34 Oleksandr Didenko, 28,…
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North Korean Hackers Turn JSON Services into Covert Malware Delivery Channels [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage malicious payloads. “The threat actors have recently resorted to utilizing JSON storage services like JSON Keeper, JSONsilo, and npoint.io to host and deliver malware from trojanized code projects, with the lure,” NVISO…
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Researchers Find Serious AI Bugs Exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft Inference Frameworks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including those from Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open-source PyTorch projects such as vLLM and SGLang. “These vulnerabilities all traced back to the same root cause: the overlooked unsafe use of ZeroMQ (ZMQ) and Python’s pickle deserialization,”Read More
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News brief: Agentic AI disrupts security, for better or worse
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Iranian Hackers Launch ‘SpearSpecter’ Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. The activity, detected in early September 2025 and assessed to be ongoing, has been codenamed SpearSpecter by the Israel National Digital Agency (INDA).…
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Ransomware’s Fragmentation Reaches a Breaking Point While LockBit Returns [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Key Takeaways: 85 active ransomware and extortion groups observed in Q3 2025, reflecting the most decentralized ransomware ecosystem to date. 1,590 victims disclosed across 85 leak sites, showing high, sustained activity despite law-enforcement pressure. 14 new ransomware brands launched this quarter, proving how quickly affiliates reconstitute after takedowns. LockBit’s reappearance withRead More
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Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic’s AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign [email protected] (The Hacker News)
State-sponsored threat actors from China used artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by Anthropic to orchestrate automated cyber attacks as part of a “highly sophisticated espionage campaign” in mid-September 2025. “The attackers used AI’s ‘agentic’ capabilities to an unprecedented degree – using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyber attacks themselves,” the…
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Fortinet FortiWeb Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild Before Company’s Silent Patch [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alert about an authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet Fortiweb WAF that could allow an attacker to take over admin accounts and completely compromise a device. “The watchTowr team is seeing active, indiscriminate in-the-wild exploitation of what appears to be a silently patched vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiWeb product,” Benjamin Harris,Read More
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