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Lazarus Hits 6 South Korean Firms via Cross EX, Innorix Flaws and ThreatNeedle Malware
At least six organizations in South Korea have been targeted by the prolific North Korea-linked Lazarus Group as part of a campaign dubbed Operation SyncHole. The activity targeted South Korea's software, IT, financial, semiconductor manufacturing, and...
2025-04-24 19:41
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Linux io_uring PoC Rootkit Bypasses System Call-Based Threat Detection Tools
Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a proof-of-concept (PoC) rootkit dubbed Curing that leverages a Linux asynchronous I/O mechanism called io_uring to bypass traditional system call monitoring. This causes a "major blind spot in Linux runtime ...
2025-04-24 18:28
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159 CVEs Exploited in Q1 2025 — 28.3% Within 24 Hours of Disclosure
As many as 159 CVE identifiers have been flagged as exploited in the wild in the first quarter of 2025, up from 151 in Q4 2024. "We continue to see vulnerabilities being exploited at a fast pace with 28.3% of vulnerabilities being exploited within 1-da...
2025-04-24 18:28
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Darcula Adds GenAI to Phishing Toolkit, Lowering the Barrier for Cybercriminals
The threat actors behind the Darcula phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform have released new updates to their cybercrime suite with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) capabilities. "This addition lowers the technical barrier for creating phish...
2025-04-24 16:57
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Automating Zero Trust in Healthcare: From Risk Scoring to Dynamic Policy Enforcement Without Network Redesign
The Evolving Healthcare Cybersecurity Landscape  Healthcare organizations face unprecedented cybersecurity challenges in 2025. With operational technology (OT) environments increasingly targeted and the convergence of IT and medical systems creating a...
2025-04-24 16:00
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Critical Commvault Command Center Flaw Enables Attackers to Execute Code Remotely
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Commvault Command Center that could allow arbitrary code execution on affected installations. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-34028, carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of a maximum of 10.0. "A crit...
2025-04-24 15:30
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WhatsApp Adds Advanced Chat Privacy to Blocks Chat Exports and Auto-Downloads
WhatsApp has introduced an extra layer of privacy called Advanced Chat Privacy that allows users to block participants from sharing the contents of a conversation in traditional chats and groups. "This new setting available in both chats and groups hel...
2025-04-24 09:33
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DPRK Hackers Steal $137M from TRON Users in Single-Day Phishing Attack
Multiple threat activity clusters with ties to North Korea (aka Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) have been linked to attacks targeting organizations and individuals in the Web3 and cryptocurrency space. "The focus on Web3 and cryptocurren...
2025-04-23 22:39
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Iran-Linked Hackers Target Israel with MURKYTOUR Malware via Fake Job Campaign
The Iran-nexus threat actor known as UNC2428 has been observed delivering a backdoor known as MURKYTOUR as part of a job-themed social engineering campaign aimed at Israel in October 2024. Google-owned Mandiant described UNC2428 as a threat actor align...
2025-04-23 18:38
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Android Spyware Disguised as Alpine Quest App Targets Russian Military Devices
Cybersecurity researchers have revealed that Russian military personnel are the target of a new malicious campaign that distributes Android spyware under the guise of the Alpine Quest mapping software. "The attackers hide this trojan inside modified Al...
2025-04-23 17:52
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Three Reasons Why the Browser is Best for Stopping Phishing Attacks
Phishing attacks remain a huge challenge for organizations in 2025. In fact, with attackers increasingly leveraging identity-based techniques over software exploits, phishing arguably poses a bigger threat than ever before.  Attackers are increasingly...
2025-04-23 16:30
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Russian Hackers Exploit Microsoft OAuth to Target Ukraine Allies via Signal and WhatsApp
Multiple suspected Russia-linked threat actors are "aggressively" targeting individuals and organizations with ties to Ukraine and human rights with an aim to gain unauthorized access to Microsoft 365 accounts since early March 2025. The highly targete...
2025-04-23 16:19
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Ripple's xrpl.js npm Package Backdoored to Steal Private Keys in Major Supply Chain Attack
The Ripple cryptocurrency npm JavaScript library named xrpl.js has been compromised by unknown threat actors as part of a software supply chain attack designed to harvest and exfiltrate users' private keys. The malicious activity has been found to affe...
2025-04-23 12:47
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Google Drops Cookie Prompt in Chrome, Adds IP Protection to Incognito
Google on Tuesday revealed that it will no longer offer a standalone prompt for third-party cookies in its Chrome browser as part of its Privacy Sandbox initiative. "We've made the decision to maintain our current approach to offering users third-party...
2025-04-23 10:49
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Docker Malware Exploits Teneo Web3 Node to Earn Crypto via Fake Heartbeat Signals
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a malware campaign that's targeting Docker environments with a previously undocumented technique to mine cryptocurrency. The activity cluster, per Darktrace and Cado Security, represents a shift from other crypto...
2025-04-22 22:16
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GCP Cloud Composer Bug Let Attackers Elevate Access via Malicious PyPI Packages
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a now-patched vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that could have enabled an attacker to elevate their privileges in the Cloud Composer workflow orchestration service that's based on Apache Airflow. "Thi...
2025-04-22 19:36
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5 Major Concerns With Employees Using The Browser
As SaaS and cloud-native work reshape the enterprise, the web browser has emerged as the new endpoint. However, unlike endpoints, browsers remain mostly unmonitored, despite being responsible for more than 70% of modern malware attacks. Keep Aware’s ...
2025-04-22 16:30
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Phishers Exploit Google Sites and DKIM Replay to Send Signed Emails, Steal Credentials
In what has been described as an "extremely sophisticated phishing attack," threat actors have leveraged an uncommon approach that allowed bogus emails to be sent via Google's infrastructure and redirect message recipients to fraudulent sites that harv...
2025-04-22 16:20
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Microsoft Secures MSA Signing with Azure Confidential VMs Following Storm-0558 Breach
Microsoft on Monday announced that it has moved the Microsoft Account (MSA) signing service to Azure confidential virtual machines (VMs) and that it's also in the process of migrating the Entra ID signing service as well. The disclosure comes about sev...
2025-04-22 13:08
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Lotus Panda Hacks SE Asian Governments With Browser Stealers and Sideloaded Malware
The China-linked cyber espionage group tracked as Lotus Panda has been attributed to a campaign that compromised multiple organizations in an unnamed Southeast Asian country between August 2024 and February 2025. "Targets included a government ministry...
2025-04-22 09:59
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