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- Attackers Abuse Velociraptor Forensic Tool to Deploy Visual Studio Code for C2 Tunneling August 30, 2025Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a cyber attack in which unknown threat actors deployed an open-source endpoint monitoring and digital forensic tool called Velociraptor, illustrating ongoing abuse of legitimate software for malicious purposes. "In this incident, the threat actor used the tool to download and execute Visual Studio Code with the likely intention of […]
- WhatsApp Patches Zero-Click Exploit Targeting iOS and macOS Devices August 30, 2025WhatsApp has addressed a security vulnerability in its messaging apps for Apple iOS and macOS that it said may have been exploited in the wild in conjunction with a recently disclosed Apple flaw in targeted zero-day attacks. The vulnerability, CVE-2025-55177 (CVSS score: 8.0 [CISA-ADP]/5.4 [Facebook]), relates to a case of insufficient authorization of linked device […]
- Researchers Warn of Sitecore Exploit Chain Linking Cache Poisoning and Remote Code Execution August 29, 2025Three new security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Sitecore Experience Platform that could be exploited to achieve information disclosure and remote code execution. The flaws, per watchTowr Labs, are listed below - CVE-2025-53693 - HTML cache poisoning through unsafe reflections CVE-2025-53691 - Remote code execution (RCE) through insecure deserialization CVE-2025-53694 -
- Webinar: Learn How to Unite Dev, Sec, and Ops Teams With One Shared Playbook August 29, 2025Picture this: Your team rolls out some new code, thinking everything's fine. But hidden in there is a tiny flaw that explodes into a huge problem once it hits the cloud. Next thing you know, hackers are in, and your company is dealing with a mess that costs millions. Scary, right? In 2025, the average […]
- Amazon Disrupts APT29 Watering Hole Campaign Abusing Microsoft Device Code Authentication August 29, 2025Amazon on Friday said it flagged and disrupted what it described as an opportunistic watering hole campaign orchestrated by the Russia-linked APT29 actors as part of their intelligence gathering efforts. The campaign used "compromised websites to redirect visitors to malicious infrastructure designed to trick users into authorizing attacker-controlled devices through Microsoft's device code
- Abandoned Sogou Zhuyin Update Server Hijacked, Weaponized in Taiwan Espionage Campaign August 29, 2025An abandoned update server associated with input method editor (IME) software Sogou Zhuyin was leveraged by threat actors as part of an espionage campaign to deliver several malware families, including C6DOOR and GTELAM, in attacks primarily targeting users across Eastern Asia. "Attackers employed sophisticated infection chains, such as hijacked software updates and fake cloud storage […]
- Can Your Security Stack See ChatGPT? Why Network Visibility Matters August 29, 2025Generative AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude are increasingly common in organizations. While these solutions improve efficiency across tasks, they also present new data leak prevention for generative AI challenges. Sensitive information may be shared through chat prompts, files uploaded for AI-driven summarization, or browser plugins that bypass familiar security controls.
- Click Studios Patches Passwordstate Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Emergency Access Page August 29, 2025Click Studios, the developer of enterprise-focused password management solution Passwordstate, said it has released security updates to address an authentication bypass vulnerability in its software. The high-severity issue, which is yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, has been addressed in Passwordstate 9.9 (Build 9972), released August 28, 2025. The Australian company said it fixed […]
- FreePBX Servers Targeted by Zero-Day Flaw, Emergency Patch Now Available August 29, 2025The Sangoma FreePBX Security Team has issued an advisory warning about an actively exploited FreePBX zero-day vulnerability that impacts systems with an administrator control panel (ACP) exposed to the public internet. FreePBX is an open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform widely used by businesses, call centers, and service providers to manage voice communications. It's built […]
- Feds Seize $6.4M VerifTools Fake-ID Marketplace, but Operators Relaunch on New Domain August 29, 2025Authorities from the Netherlands and the United States have announced the dismantling of an illicit marketplace called VerifTools that peddled fraudulent identity documents to cybercriminals across the world. To that end, two marketplace domains (verif[.]tools and veriftools[.]net) and one blog have been taken down, redirecting site visitors to a splash page stating the action was […]
- Google Warns Salesloft Drift Breach Impacts All Drift Integrations Beyond Salesforce August 29, 2025Google has revealed that the recent wave of attacks targeting Salesforce instances via Salesloft Drift is much broader in scope than previously thought, stating it impacts all integrations. "We now advise all Salesloft Drift customers to treat any and all authentication tokens stored in or connected to the Drift platform as potentially compromised," Google Threat […]
- TamperedChef Malware Disguised as Fake PDF Editors Steals Credentials and Cookies August 29, 2025Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cybercrime campaign that's using malvertising tricks to direct victims to fraudulent sites to deliver a new information stealer called TamperedChef. "The objective is to lure victims into downloading and installing a trojanized PDF editor, which includes an information-stealing malware dubbed TamperedChef," Truesec researchers Mattias Wåhlén, Nicklas
- Researchers Find VS Code Flaw Allowing Attackers to Republish Deleted Extensions Under Same Names August 28, 2025Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a loophole in the Visual Studio Code Marketplace that allows threat actors to reuse names of previously removed extensions. Software supply chain security outfit ReversingLabs said it made the discovery after it identified a malicious extension named "ahbanC.shiba" that functioned similarly to two other extensions – ahban.shiba and ahban.cychelloworld –
- Salt Typhoon Exploits Flaws in Edge Network Devices to Breach 600 Organizations Worldwide August 28, 2025The China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Salt Typhoon has continued its attacks targeting networks across the world, including organizations in the telecommunications, government, transportation, lodging, and military infrastructure sectors. "While these actors focus on large backbone routers of major telecommunications providers, as well as provider edge (PE) and
- Hidden Vulnerabilities of Project Management Tools & How FluentPro Backup Secures Them August 28, 2025Every day, businesses, teams, and project managers trust platforms like Trello, Asana, etc., to collaborate and manage tasks. But what happens when that trust is broken? According to a recent report by Statista, the average cost of a data breach worldwide was about $4.88 million. Also, in 2024, the private data of over 15 million […]
- Malicious Nx Packages in ‘s1ngularity’ Attack Leaked 2,349 GitHub, Cloud, and AI Credentials August 28, 2025The maintainers of the nx build system have alerted users to a supply chain attack that allowed attackers to publish malicious versions of the popular npm package and other auxiliary plugins with data-gathering capabilities. "Malicious versions of the nx package, as well as some supporting plugin packages, were published to npm, containing code that scans […]
- U.S. Treasury Sanctions DPRK IT-Worker Scheme, Exposing $600K Crypto Transfers and $1M+ Profits August 28, 2025The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a fresh round of sanctions against two individuals and two entities for their role in the North Korean remote information technology (IT) worker scheme to generate illicit revenue for the regime's weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs. "The North Korean […]
- Storm-0501 Exploits Entra ID to Exfiltrate and Delete Azure Data in Hybrid Cloud Attacks August 27, 2025The financially motivated threat actor known as Storm-0501 has been observed refining its tactics to conduct data exfiltration and extortion attacks targeting cloud environments. "Unlike traditional on-premises ransomware, where the threat actor typically deploys malware to encrypt critical files across endpoints within the compromised network and then negotiates for a decryption key,
- Someone Created the First AI-Powered Ransomware Using OpenAI's gpt-oss:20b Model August 27, 2025Cybersecurity company ESET has disclosed that it discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ransomware variant codenamed PromptLock. Written in Golang, the newly identified strain uses the gpt-oss:20b model from OpenAI locally via the Ollama API to generate malicious Lua scripts in real-time. The open-weight language model was released by OpenAI earlier this month. "PromptLock
- Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors August 27, 2025Anthropic on Wednesday revealed that it disrupted a sophisticated operation that weaponized its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot Claude to conduct large-scale theft and extortion of personal data in July 2025. "The actor targeted at least 17 distinct organizations, including in healthcare, the emergency services, and government, and religious institutions," the company said. "