“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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SlopAds Fraud Ring Exploits 224 Android Apps to Drive 2.3 Billion Daily Ad Bids [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A massive ad fraud and click fraud operation dubbed SlopAds ran a cluster of 224 apps, collectively attracting 38 million downloads across 228 countries and territories. “These apps deliver their fraud payload using steganography and create hidden WebViews to navigate to threat actor-owned cashout sites, generating fraudulent ad impressions and clicks,” HUMAN’s Satori Threat Intelligence…
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New FileFix Variant Delivers StealC Malware Through Multilingual Phishing Site [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a new campaign that’s leveraging a variant of the FileFix social engineering tactic to deliver the StealC information stealer malware. “The observed campaign uses a highly convincing, multilingual phishing site (e.g., fake Facebook Security page), with anti-analysis techniques and advanced obfuscation to evade detection,” Acronis security researcher EliadRead More
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Apple Backports Fix for CVE-2025-43300 Exploited in Sophisticated Spyware Attack [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Apple on Monday backported fixes for a recently patched security flaw that has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-43300 (CVSS score: 8.8), an out-of-bounds write issue in the ImageIO component that could result in memory corruption when processing a malicious image file. “Apple is aware of a report that…
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Securing the Agentic Era: Introducing Astrix’s AI Agent Control Plane [email protected] (The Hacker News)
AI agents are rapidly becoming a core part of the enterprise, being embedded across enterprise workflows, operating with autonomy, and making decisions about which systems to access and how to use them. But as agents grow in power and autonomy, so do the risks and threats. Recent studies show 80% of companies have already experienced…
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Phoenix RowHammer Attack Bypasses Advanced DDR5 Memory Protections in 109 Seconds [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A team of academics from ETH Zürich and Google has discovered a new variant of a RowHammer attack targeting Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) memory chips from South Korean semiconductor vendor SK Hynix. The RowHammer attack variant, codenamed Phoenix (CVE-2025-6202, CVSS score: 7.1), is capable of bypassing sophisticated protection mechanisms put in place to resist…
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40 npm Packages Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Using bundle.js to Steal Credentials [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a fresh software supply chain attack targeting the npm registry that has affected more than 40 packages that belong to multiple maintainers. “The compromised versions include a function (NpmModule.updatePackage) that downloads a package tarball, modifies package.json, injects a local script (bundle.js), repacks the archive, and republishes it, enablingRead More
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Mustang Panda Deploys SnakeDisk USB Worm to Deliver Yokai Backdoor on Thailand IPs [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The China-aligned threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been observed using an updated version of a backdoor called TONESHELL and a previously undocumented USB worm called SnakeDisk. “The worm only executes on devices with Thailand-based IP addresses and drops the Yokai backdoor,” IBM X-Force researchers Golo Mühr and Joshua Chung said in an analysis…
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What is a forensic image?
A forensic image (forensic copy) is a bit-by-bit, sector-by-sector direct copy of a physical storage device, including all files, folders, and unallocated, free and slack space.Read More
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What is mobile threat defense (MTD)?
Mobile threat defense (MTD) software protects organizations and individuals from security threats on mobile platforms.Read More
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6 Browser-Based Attacks Security Teams Need to Prepare For Right Now [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Attacks that target users in their web browsers have seen an unprecedented rise in recent years. In this article, we’ll explore what a “browser-based attack” is, and why they’re proving to be so effective. What is a browser-based attack? First, it’s important to establish what a browser-based attack is. In most scenarios, attackers don’t think…
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