“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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Türkiye Hackers Exploited Output Messenger Zero-Day to Drop Golang Backdoors on Kurdish Servers [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A Türkiye-affiliated threat actor exploited a zero-day security flaw in an Indian enterprise communication platform called Output Messenger as part of a cyber espionage attack campaign since April 2024. “These exploits have resulted in a collection of related user data from targets in Iraq,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said. “The targets of the attack…
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ASUS Patches DriverHub RCE Flaws Exploitable via HTTP and Crafted .ini Files [email protected] (The Hacker News)
ASUS has released updates to address two security flaws impacting ASUS DriverHub that, if successfully exploited, could enable an attacker to leverage the software in order to achieve remote code execution. DriverHub is a tool that’s designed to automatically detect the motherboard model of a computer and display necessary driver updates for subsequent installation by…
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Zero-Day Exploits, Developer Malware, IoT Botnets, and AI-Powered Scams [email protected] (The Hacker News)
What do a source code editor, a smart billboard, and a web server have in common? They’ve all become launchpads for attacks—because cybercriminals are rethinking what counts as “infrastructure.” Instead of chasing high-value targets directly, threat actors are now quietly taking over the overlooked: outdated software, unpatched IoT devices, and open-source packages. It’s not just…
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The Persistence Problem: Why Exposed Credentials Remain Unfixed—and How to Change That [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Detecting leaked credentials is only half the battle. The real challenge—and often the neglected half of the equation—is what happens after detection. New research from GitGuardian’s State of Secrets Sprawl 2025 report reveals a disturbing trend: the vast majority of exposed company secrets discovered in public repositories remain valid for years after detection, creating an…
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Fake AI Tools Used to Spread Noodlophile Malware, Targeting 62,000+ via Facebook Lures [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat actors have been observed leveraging fake artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools as a lure to entice users into downloading an information stealer malware dubbed Noodlophile. “Instead of relying on traditional phishing or cracked software sites, they build convincing AI-themed platforms – often advertised via legitimate-looking Facebook groups and viral social media campaigns,”Read More
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Google Pays $1.375 Billion to Texas Over Unauthorized Tracking and Biometric Data Collection [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that accused the company of tracking users’ personal location and maintaining their facial recognition data without consent. The $1.375 billion payment dwarfs the fines the tech giant has paid to settle similar lawsuits brought by other U.S. states.…
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Germany Shuts Down eXch Over $1.9B Laundering, Seizes €34M in Crypto and 8TB of Data [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (aka Bundeskriminalamt or BKA) has seized the online infrastructure and shutdown linked to the eXch cryptocurrency exchange over allegations of money laundering and operating a criminal trading platform. The operation was carried out on April 30, 2025, authorities said, adding they also confiscated 8 terabytes worth of data and cryptocurrency…
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SAP Netweaver Zero-Day Attack
What is the Attack?A zero-day SAP vulnerability, CVE-2025-31324, with CVSS score of 10.0 is being actively exploited in the wild. This vulnerability affects SAP Visual Composer, allowing unauthenticated threat actors to upload arbitrary files, resulting in full compromise of the targeted system that could significantly affect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the targeted system.The…
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News brief: AI security risks highlighted at RSAC 2025
Check out the latest security news from the Informa TechTarget team.Read More
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BREAKING: 7,000-Device Proxy Botnet Using IoT, EoL Systems Dismantled in U.S. – Dutch Operation [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A joint law enforcement operation undertaken by Dutch and U.S. authorities has dismantled a criminal proxy network that’s powered by thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) and end-of-life (EoL) devices, enlisting them into a botnet for providing anonymity to malicious actors. In conjunction with the domain seizure, Russian nationals, Alexey Viktorovich Chertkov, 37, Kirill…
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