“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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CISA Adds TP-Link and WhatsApp Flaws to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a high-severity security flaw impacting TP-Link TL-WA855RE Wi-Fi Ranger Extender products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-24363 (CVSS score: 8.8), concerns a case of missing authentication that could be abused to obtainRead More
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Salesloft Takes Drift Offline After OAuth Token Theft Hits Hundreds of Organizations [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Salesloft on Tuesday announced that it’s taking Drift temporarily offline “in the very near future,” as multiple companies have been ensnared in a far-reaching supply chain attack spree targeting the marketing software-as-a-service product, resulting in the mass theft of authentication tokens. “This will provide the fastest path forward to comprehensively review the application and buildRead…
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Lazarus Group Expands Malware Arsenal With PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT, and RemotePE [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been attributed to a social engineering campaign that distributes three different pieces of cross-platform malware called PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT, and RemotePE. The attack, observed by NCC Group’s Fox-IT in 2024, targeted an organization in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, ultimately leading to the compromise of…
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Researchers Warn of MystRodX Backdoor Using DNS and ICMP Triggers for Stealthy Control [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a stealthy new backdoor called MystRodX that comes with a variety of features to capture sensitive data from compromised systems. “MystRodX is a typical backdoor implemented in C++, supporting features like file management, port forwarding, reverse shell, and socket management,” QiAnXin XLab said in a report published last week. “Compared to…
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Shadow AI Discovery: A Critical Part of Enterprise AI Governance [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The Harsh Truths of AI Adoption MITs State of AI in Business report revealed that while 40% of organizations have purchased enterprise LLM subscriptions, over 90% of employees are actively using AI tools in their daily work. Similarly, research from Harmonic Security found that 45.4% of sensitive AI interactions are coming from personal email accounts,…
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An introduction to AWS IAM and security best practices
With AI threats rising and machine identities outnumbering humans 82-to-1, discover how AWS IAM’s authentication and authorization framework safeguards your cloud resources.Read More
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Ukrainian Network FDN3 Launches Massive Brute-Force Attacks on SSL VPN and RDP Devices [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a Ukrainian IP network for engaging in massive brute-force and password spraying campaigns targeting SSL VPN and RDP devices between June and July 2025. The activity originated from a Ukraine-based autonomous system FDN3 (AS211736), per French cybersecurity company Intrinsec. “We believe with a high level of confidence that FDN3 is part…
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Silver Fox Exploits Microsoft-Signed WatchDog Driver to Deploy ValleyRAT Malware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been attributed to abuse of a previously unknown vulnerable driver associated with WatchDog Anti-malware as part of a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack aimed at disarming security solutions installed on compromised hosts. The vulnerable driver in question is “amsdk.sys” (version 1.0.600), a 64-bit, validly signed…
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Malicious npm Package nodejs-smtp Mimics Nodemailer, Targets Atomic and Exodus Wallets [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that comes with stealthy features to inject malicious code into desktop apps for cryptocurrency wallets like Atomic and Exodus on Windows systems. The package, named nodejs-smtp, impersonates the legitimate email library nodemailer with an identical tagline, page styling, and README descriptions, attracting a total of 347Read More
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Android Droppers Now Deliver SMS Stealers and Spyware, Not Just Banking Trojans [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new shift in the Android malware landscape where dropper apps, which are typically used to deliver banking trojans, to also distribute simpler malware such as SMS stealers and basic spyware. These campaigns are propagated via dropper apps masquerading as government or banking apps in India and other parts…
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