Security

⚡ THN Weekly Recap: Alerts on Zero-Day Exploits, AI Breaches, and Crypto Heists
This week, a 23-year-old Serbian activist found themselves at the crossroads of digital danger when a sneaky zero-day exploit turned their Android device into a target. Meanwhile, Microsoft pulled back the curtain on a scheme where cybercriminals used ...
2025-03-03 17:28
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The New Ransomware Groups Shaking Up 2025
In 2024, global ransomware attacks hit 5,414, an 11% increase from 2023.  After a slow start, attacks spiked in Q2 and surged in Q4, with 1,827 incidents (33% of the year's total). Law enforcement actions against major groups like LockBit caused fragm...
2025-03-03 16:30
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Vo1d Botnet's Peak Surpasses 1.59M Infected Android TVs, Spanning 226 Countries
Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, Argentina, and Thailand have become the targets of a campaign that has infected Android TV devices with a botnet malware dubbed Vo1d. The improved variant of Vo1d has been found to encompass 800,000 daily active IP addr...
2025-03-03 10:47
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Mozilla Updates Firefox Terms Again After Backlash Over Broad Data License Language
Firefox browser maker Mozilla on Friday updated its Terms of Use a second time within a week following criticism overbroad language that appeared to give the company the rights to all information uploaded by users. The revised Terms of Use now states -...
2025-03-01 13:30
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Amnesty Finds Cellebrite’s Zero-Day Used to Unlock Serbian Activist’s Android Phone
A 23-year-old Serbian youth activist had their Android phone targeted by a zero-day exploit developed by Cellebrite to unlock the device, according to a new report from Amnesty International. "The Android phone of one student protester was exploited an...
2025-02-28 22:18
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RDP: a Double-Edged Sword for IT Teams – Essential Yet Exploitable
Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is an amazing technology developed by Microsoft that lets you access and control another computer over a network. It’s like having your office computer with you wherever you go. For businesses, this means IT staff can ma...
2025-02-28 19:53
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5,000 Phishing PDFs on 260 Domains Distribute Lumma Stealer via Fake CAPTCHAs
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a widespread phishing campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA images shared via PDF documents hosted on Webflow's content delivery network (CDN) to deliver the Lumma stealer malware. Netskope Threat Labs said it discove...
2025-02-28 19:19
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Fake CAPTCHA PDFs Spread Lumma Stealer via Webflow, GoDaddy, and Other Domains
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a widespread phishing campaign that uses fake CAPTCHA images shared via PDF documents hosted on Webflow's content delivery network (CDN) to deliver the Lumma stealer malware. Netskope Threat Labs said it discove...
2025-02-28 19:19
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Microsoft Exposes LLMjacking Cybercriminals Behind Azure AI Abuse Scheme
Microsoft on Thursday unmasked four of the individuals that it said were behind an Azure Abuse Enterprise scheme that involves leveraging unauthorized access to generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) services in order to produce offensive and harmf...
2025-02-28 16:03
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12,000+ API Keys and Passwords Found in Public Datasets Used for LLM Training
A dataset used to train large language models (LLMs) has been found to contain nearly 12,000 live secrets, which allow for successful authentication. The findings once again highlight how hard-coded credentials pose a severe security risk to users and ...
2025-02-28 15:54
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Sticky Werewolf Uses Undocumented Implant to Deploy Lumma Stealer in Russia and Belarus
The threat actor known as Sticky Werewolf has been linked to targeted attacks primarily in Russia and Belarus with the aim of delivering the Lumma Stealer malware by means of a previously undocumented implant. Cybersecurity company Kaspersky is trackin...
2025-02-28 15:06
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Silver Fox APT Uses Winos 4.0 Malware in Cyber Attacks Against Taiwanese Organizations
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 pre...
2025-02-27 21:06
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Space Pirates Targets Russian IT Firms With New LuckyStrike Agent Malware
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 S...
2025-02-27 19:20
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89% of Enterprise GenAI Usage Is Invisible to Organizations Exposing Critical Security Risks, New Report Reveals
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 ...
2025-02-27 18:35
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New TgToxic Banking Trojan Variant Evolves with Anti-Analysis Upgrades
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 ...
2025-02-27 18:34
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PolarEdge Botnet Exploits Cisco and Other Flaws to Hijack ASUS, QNAP, and Synology Devices
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 acto...
2025-02-27 14:50
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Bybit Hack Traced to Safe{Wallet} Supply Chain Attack Exploited by North Korean Hackers
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 o...
2025-02-27 12:45
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Hackers Exploited Krpano Framework Flaw to Inject Spam Ads on 350+ Websites
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...
2025-02-26 22:49
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Leaked Black Basta Chat Logs Reveal $107M Ransom Earnings and Internal Power Struggles
More than a year's worth of internal chat logs from a ransomware gang known as Black Basta have been published online in a leak that provides unprecedented visibility into their tactics and internal conflicts among its members. The Russian-language cha...
2025-02-26 19:24
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Leaked Black Basta Ransomware Chat Logs Reveal Inner Workings and Internal Conflicts
More than a year's worth of internal chat logs from a ransomware gang known as Black Basta have been published online in a leak that provides unprecedented visibility into their tactics and internal conflicts among its members. The Russian-language cha...
2025-02-26 19:24
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