“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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108 Malicious Chrome Extensions Steal Google and Telegram Data, Affecting 20,000 Users [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign in which a cluster of 108 Google Chrome extensions has been found to communicate with the same command-and-control (C2) infrastructure with the goal of collecting user data and enabling browser-level abuse by injecting ads and arbitrary JavaScript code into every web page visited. According to Socket, the extensions are…
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ShowDoc RCE Flaw CVE-2025-0520 Actively Exploited on Unpatched Servers [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A critical security vulnerability impacting ShowDoc, a document management and collaboration service popular in China, has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-0520 (aka CNVD-2020-26585), which carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of 10.0. It relates to a case of unrestricted file upload that stems from improper validation ofRead More
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CISA Adds 6 Known Exploited Flaws in Fortinet, Microsoft, and Adobe Software [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added half a dozen security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-21643 (CVSS score: 9.1) – An SQL injection vulnerability in Fortinet FortiClient EMS that could allow an unauthenticated attacker toRead More
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JanelaRAT Malware Targets Latin American Banks with 14,739 Attacks in Brazil in 2025 [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Banks and financial institutions in Latin American countries like Brazil and Mexico have continued to be the target of a malware family called JanelaRAT. A modified version of BX RAT, JanelaRAT is known to steal financial and cryptocurrency data associated with specific financial entities, as well as track mouse inputs, log keystrokes, take screenshots, and…
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FBI and Indonesian Police Dismantle W3LL Phishing Network Behind $20M Fraud Attempts [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), in partnership with the Indonesian National Police, has dismantled the infrastructure associated with a global phishing operation that leveraged an off-the-shelf toolkit called W3LL to steal thousands of victims’ account credentials and attempt more than $20 million in fraud. In tandem, authorities detained the alleged developer, who has&Read More
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Fiber Optic Spying, Windows Rootkit, AI Vulnerability Hunting and More [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Monday is back, and the weekend’s backlog of chaos is officially hitting the fan. We are tracking a critical zero-day that has been quietly living in your PDFs for months, plus some aggressive state-sponsored meddling in infrastructure that is finally coming to light. It is one of those mornings where the gap between a quiet shift and a…
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Your MTTD Looks Great. Your Post-Alert Gap Doesn’t [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Anthropic restricted its Mythos Preview model last week after it autonomously found and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and browser. Palo Alto Networks’ Wendi Whitmorewarned that similar capabilities are weeks or months from proliferation. CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report puts average eCrime breakout time at 29 minutes. Mandiant’s M-Trends 2026Read More
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North Korea’s APT37 Uses Facebook Social Engineering to Deliver RokRAT Malware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The North Korean hacking group tracked as APT37 (aka ScarCruft) has been attributed to a fresh multi-stage, social engineering campaign in which threat actors approached targets on Facebook and added them as friends on the social media platform, turning the trust-building exercise into a delivery channel for a remote access trojan called RokRAT. “The threat actor used…
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OpenAI Revokes macOS App Certificate After Malicious Axios Supply Chain Incident [email protected] (The Hacker News)
OpenAI revealed a GitHub Actions workflow used to sign its macOS apps, which downloaded the malicious Axios library on March 31, but noted that no user data or internal system was compromised. “Out of an abundance of caution, we are taking steps to protect the process that certifies our macOS applications are legitimate OpenAI apps,” OpenAI said in a…
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CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deploy a remote access trojan called STX RAT. The incident lasted from approximately April 9, 15:00 UTC, to about April 10, 10:00 UTC, withRead…
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