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EncryptHub Deploys Ransomware and Stealer via Trojanized Apps, PPI Services, and Phishing
The financially motivated threat actor known as EncryptHub has been observed orchestrating sophisticated phishing campaigns to deploy information stealers and ransomware, while also working on a new product called EncryptRAT. "EncryptHub has been obser...
2025-03-06 17:45
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Medusa Ransomware Hits 40+ Victims in 2025, Demands $100K–$15M Ransom
The threat actors behind the Medusa ransomware have claimed nearly 400 victims since it first emerged in January 2023, with the financially motivated attacks witnessing a 42% increase between 2023 and 2024. In the first two months of 2025 alone, the gr...
2025-03-06 17:31
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Outsmarting Cyber Threats with Attack Graphs
Cyber threats are growing more sophisticated, and traditional security approaches struggle to keep up. Organizations can no longer rely on periodic assessments or static vulnerability lists to stay secure. Instead, they need a dynamic approach that pro...
2025-03-06 16:30
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Over 1,000 WordPress Sites Infected with JavaScript Backdoors Enabling Persistent Attacker Access
Over 1,000 websites powered by WordPress have been infected with a third-party JavaScript code that injects four separate backdoors. "Creating four backdoors facilitates the attackers having multiple points of re-entry should one be detected and remove...
2025-03-06 15:27
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U.S. Charges 12 Chinese Nationals in State-Backed Hacking Operations
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced charges against 12 Chinese nationals for their alleged participation in a wide-ranging scheme designed to steal data and suppress free speech and dissent globally. The individuals include two officers ...
2025-03-06 12:10
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China-Linked Silk Typhoon Expands Cyber Attacks to IT Supply Chains for Initial Access
The China-lined threat actor behind the zero-day exploitation of security flaws in Microsoft Exchange servers in January 2021 has shifted its tactics to target the information technology (IT) supply chain as a means to obtain initial access to corporat...
2025-03-05 21:14
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Defending against USB drive attacks with Wazuh
USB drive attacks constitute a significant cybersecurity risk, taking advantage of the everyday use of USB devices to deliver malware and circumvent traditional network security measures. These attacks lead to data breaches, financial losses, and opera...
2025-03-05 19:38
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Dark Caracal Uses Poco RAT to Target Spanish-Speaking Enterprises in Latin America
The threat actor known as Dark Caracal has been attributed to a campaign that deployed a remote access trojan called Poco RAT in attacks targeting Spanish-speaking targets in Latin America in 2024. The findings come from Russian cybersecurity company P...
2025-03-05 19:07
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Google Rolls Out AI Scam Detection for Android to Combat Conversational Fraud
Google has announced the rollout of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered scam detection features to secure Android device users and their personal information. "These features specifically target conversational scams, which can often appear initially h...
2025-03-05 18:50
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Chinese APT Lotus Panda Targets Governments With New Sagerunex Backdoor Variants
The threat actor known as Lotus Panda has been observed targeting government, manufacturing, telecommunications, and media sectors in the Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and Taiwan with updated versions of a known backdoor called Sagerunex. "Lotus Blo...
2025-03-05 16:33
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Identity: The New Cybersecurity Battleground
The rapid adoption of cloud services, SaaS applications, and the shift to remote work have fundamentally reshaped how enterprises operate. These technological advances have created a world of opportunity but also brought about complexities that pose si...
2025-03-05 16:30
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Seven Malicious Go Packages Found Deploying Malware on Linux and macOS Systems
Cybersecurity researchers are alerting of an ongoing malicious campaign targeting the Go ecosystem with typosquatted modules that are designed to deploy loader malware on Linux and Apple macOS systems. "The threat actor has published at least seven pac...
2025-03-05 12:37
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Researchers Link CACTUS Ransomware Tactics to Former Black Basta Affiliates
Threat actors deploying the Black Basta and CACTUS ransomware families have been found to rely on the same BackConnect (BC) module for maintaining persistent control over infected hosts, a sign that affiliates previously associated with Black Basta may...
2025-03-04 21:51
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VMware Security Flaws Exploited in the Wild—Broadcom Releases Urgent Patches
Broadcom has released security updates to address three actively exploited security flaws in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products that could lead to code execution and information disclosure. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-202...
2025-03-04 19:43
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How New AI Agents Will Transform Credential Stuffing Attacks
Credential stuffing attacks had a huge impact in 2024, fueled by a vicious circle of infostealer infections and data breaches. But things could be about to get worse still with Computer-Using Agents, a new kind of AI agent that enables low-cost, low-ef...
2025-03-04 16:30
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Suspected Iranian Hackers Used Compromised Indian Firm's Email to Target U.A.E. Aviation Sector
Threat hunters are calling attention to a new highly-targeted phishing campaign that singled out "fewer than five" entities in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) to deliver a previously undocumented Golang backdoor dubbed Sosano. The malicious activity ...
2025-03-04 15:28
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Over 4,000 ISP IPs Targeted in Brute-Force Attacks to Deploy Info Stealers and Cryptominers
Internet service providers (ISPs) in China and the West Coast of the United States have become the target of a mass exploitation campaign that deploys information stealers and cryptocurrency miners on compromised hosts. The findings come from the Splun...
2025-03-04 14:31
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Cisco, Hitachi, Microsoft, and Progress Flaws Actively Exploited—CISA Sounds Alarm
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws impacting software from Cisco, Hitachi Vantara, Microsoft Windows, and Progress WhatsUp Gold to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, base...
2025-03-04 10:09
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Google's March 2025 Android Security Update Fixes Two Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities
Google has released its monthly Android Security Bulletin for March 2025 to address a total of 44 vulnerabilities, including two that it said have come under active exploitation in the wild. The two high-severity vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-...
2025-03-04 09:37
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Hackers Exploit AWS Misconfigurations to Launch Phishing Attacks via SES and WorkMail
Threat actors are targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments to push out phishing campaigns to unsuspecting targets, according to findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The cybersecurity company is tracking the activity cluster under the name ...
2025-03-03 22:56
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