“Cyber warfare is as much about psychological strategy as technical prowess.”
― James Scott
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AI Agents and the Non‑Human Identity Crisis: How to Deploy AI More Securely at Scale [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Artificial intelligence is driving a massive shift in enterprise productivity, from GitHub Copilot’s code completions to chatbots that mine internal knowledge bases for instant answers. Each new agent must authenticate to other services, quietly swelling the population of non‑human identities (NHIs) across corporate clouds. That population is already overwhelming the enterprise: many companiesRead More
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Employees Searching Payroll Portals on Google Tricked Into Sending Paychecks to Hackers [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat hunters have exposed a novel campaign that makes use of search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques to target employee mobile devices and facilitate payroll fraud. The activity, first detected by ReliaQuest in May 2025 targeting an unnamed customer in the manufacturing sector, is characterized by the use of fake login pages to access the…
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Hackers Are Calling Your Office: FBI Alerts Law Firms to Luna Moth’s Stealth Phishing Campaign [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of social engineering attacks mounted by a criminal extortion actor known as Luna Moth targeting law firms over the past two years. The campaign leverages “information technology (IT) themed social engineering calls, and callback phishing emails, to gain remote access to systems or devices and steal…
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Russia-Linked Hackers Target Tajikistan Government with Weaponized Word Documents [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The Russia-aligned threat actor known as TAG-110 has been observed conducting a spear-phishing campaign targeting Tajikistan using macro-enabled Word templates as an initial payload. The attack chain is a departure from the threat actor’s previously documented use of an HTML Application (.HTA) loader dubbed HATVIBE, Recorded Future’s Insikt Group said in an analysis. “Given TAG-110’s…
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Over 70 Malicious npm and VS Code Packages Found Stealing Data and Crypto [email protected] (The Hacker News)
As many as 60 malicious npm packages have been discovered in the package registry with malicious functionality to harvest hostnames, IP addresses, DNS servers, and user directories to a Discord-controlled endpoint. The packages, published under three different accounts, come with an install‑time script that’s triggered during npm install, Socket security researcher Kirill Boychenko said in…
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CISO’s Guide To Web Privacy Validation And Why It’s Important [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Are your web privacy controls protecting your users, or just a box-ticking exercise? This CISO’s guide provides a practical roadmap for continuous web privacy validation that’s aligned with real-world practices. – Download the full guide here. Web Privacy: From Legal Requirement to Business Essential As regulators ramp up enforcement and users grow more privacy-aware, CISOs…
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⚡ Weekly Recap: APT Campaigns, Browser Hijacks, AI Malware, Cloud Breaches and Critical CVEs [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cyber threats don’t show up one at a time anymore. They’re layered, planned, and often stay hidden until it’s too late. For cybersecurity teams, the key isn’t just reacting to alerts—it’s spotting early signs of trouble before they become real threats. This update is designed to deliver clear, accurate insights based on real patterns and…
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Hackers Use Fake VPN and Browser NSIS Installers to Deliver Winos 4.0 Malware [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a malware campaign that uses fake software installers masquerading as popular tools like LetsVPN and QQ Browser to deliver the Winos 4.0 framework. The campaign, first detected by Rapid7 in February 2025, involves the use of a multi-stage, memory-resident loader called Catena. “Catena uses embedded shellcode and configuration switching logic to…
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Hackers Use TikTok Videos to Distribute Vidar and StealC Malware via ClickFix Technique [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The malware known as Latrodectus has become the latest to embrace the widely-used social engineering technique called ClickFix as a distribution vector. “The ClickFix technique is particularly risky because it allows the malware to execute in memory rather than being written to disk,” Expel said in a report shared with The Hacker News. “This removes…
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ViciousTrap Uses Cisco Flaw to Build Global Honeypot from 5,300 Compromised Devices [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a threat actor codenamed ViciousTrap has compromised nearly 5,300 unique network edge devices across 84 countries and turned them into a honeypot-like network. The threat actor has been observed exploiting a critical security flaw impacting Cisco Small Business RV016, RV042, RV042G, RV082, RV320, and RV325 Routers (CVE-2023-20118) to corral them…
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