[ad_1] Feb 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Android Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of an Android malware called TgToxic (aka ToxicPanda), indicating that the threat actors behind it are continuously making changes in response to public reporting. “The modifications seen in the TgToxic payloads reflect the actors’ ongoing surveillance of open source intelligence and…
[ad_1] Feb 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Threat Intelligence A new campaign is targeting companies in Taiwan with malware known as Winos 4.0 as part of phishing emails masquerading as the country’s National Taxation Bureau. The campaign, detected last month by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, marks a departure from previous attack chains that have leveraged malicious game-related…
[ad_1] Feb 27, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Browser Security Organizations are either already adopting GenAI solutions, evaluating strategies for integrating these tools into their business plans, or both. To drive informed decision-making and effective planning, the availability of hard data is essential—yet such data remains surprisingly scarce. The “Enterprise GenAI Data Security Report 2025”…
[ad_1] Feb 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Network Security The threat actor known as Space Pirates has been linked to a malicious campaign targeting Russian information technology (IT) organizations with a previously undocumented malware called LuckyStrike Agent. The activity was detected in November 2024 by Solar, the cybersecurity arm of Russian state-owned telecom company Rostelecom. It’s…
[ad_1] Feb 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security A new malware campaign has been observed targeting edge devices from Cisco, ASUS, QNAP, and Synology to rope them into a botnet named PolarEdge since at least the end of 2023. French cybersecurity company Sekoia said it observed the unknown threat actors leveraging CVE-2023-20118 (CVSS score: 6.5),…
[ad_1] Feb 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Cryptocurrency The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) formally linked the record-breaking $1.5 billion Bybit hack to North Korean threat actors, as the company’s CEO Ben Zhou declared a “war against Lazarus.” The agency said the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of…
[ad_1] Feb 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Python library on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that facilitates unauthorized music downloads from music streaming service Deezer. The package in question is automslc, which has been downloaded over 104,000 times to date. First published in May 2019, it remains available…
[ad_1] Feb 26, 2025Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Threat Intelligence The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) on Tuesday warned of renewed activity from an organized criminal group it tracks as UAC-0173 that involves infecting computers with a remote access trojan named DCRat (aka DarkCrystal RAT). The Ukrainian cybersecurity authority said it observed the latest…
[ad_1] Feb 26, 2025The Hacker NewsIdentity Protection / Password Security Passwords are rarely appreciated until a security breach occurs; suffice to say, the importance of a strong password becomes clear only when faced with the consequences of a weak one. However, most end users are unaware of just how vulnerable their passwords are to the…
[ad_1] A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in a virtual tour framework has been weaponized by malicious actors to inject malicious scripts across hundreds of websites with the goal of manipulating search results and fueling a spam ads campaign at scale. Security researcher Oleg Zaytsev, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said the campaign…
