The Latest News In Cyber Security
Adobe Releases Patch Fixing 254 Vulnerabilities, Closing High-Severity Security Gaps
Jun 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cloud Security Adobe on Tuesday pushed security updates to address a total of 254 security flaws impacting its software products, a majority of which affect Experience Manager (AEM). Of the 254 flaws, 225 reside in AEM, impacting AEM Cloud Service (CS) as well as all versions prior to and including 6.5.22. The issues have been[...]
Hit by a cyber-attack? Seven ways to protect yourself
Keep an eye on your inboxAlmost every week seems to bring news of a cyber-attack on a company, or organisation, and fears over what personal data the hackers have managed to get hold of.Last month, the footwear and sports apparel company Adidas revealed that some of its customers’ personal information had been stolen, although it said passwords, credit card and[...]
Over 70 Organizations Across Multiple Sectors Targeted by China-Linked Cyber Espionage Group
Jun 09, 2025Ravie LakshmananGovernment Security / Cyber Espionage The reconnaissance activity targeting American cybersecurity company SentinelOne was part of a broader set of partially-related intrusions into several targets between July 2024 and March 2025. "The victimology includes a South Asian government entity, a European media organization, and more than 70 organizations across a wide range of sectors," SentinelOne security researchers[...]
New Supply Chain Malware Operation Hits npm and PyPI Ecosystems, Targeting Millions Globally
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a supply chain attack targeting over a dozen packages associated with GlueStack to deliver malware. The malware, introduced via a change to "lib/commonjs/index.js," allows an attacker to run shell commands, take screenshots, and upload files to infected machines, Aikido Security told The Hacker News, stating these packages collectively account for nearly 1 million weekly downloads. The[...]
New Atomic macOS Stealer Campaign Exploits ClickFix to Target Apple Users
Cybersecurity researchers are alerting to a new malware campaign that employs the ClickFix social engineering tactic to trick users into downloading an information stealer malware known as Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS) on Apple macOS systems. The campaign, according to CloudSEK, has been found to leverage typosquat domains mimicking U.S.-based telecom provider Spectrum. "macOS users are served a malicious shell script[...]
Empower Users and Protect Against GenAI Data Loss
Jun 06, 2025The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Zero Trust When generative AI tools became widely available in late 2022, it wasn't just technologists who paid attention. Employees across all industries immediately recognized the potential of generative AI to boost productivity, streamline communication and accelerate work. Like so many waves of consumer-first IT innovation before it—file sharing, cloud storage and collaboration[...]
Popular Chrome Extensions Leak API Keys, User Data via HTTP and Hardcoded Credentials
Jun 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Online Safety Cybersecurity researchers have flagged several popular Google Chrome extensions that have been found to transmit data in HTTP and hard-code secrets in their code, exposing users to privacy and security risks. "Several widely used extensions [...] unintentionally transmit sensitive data over simple HTTP," Yuanjing Guo, a security researcher in the Symantec's Security[...]
Google Exposes Vishing Group UNC6040 Targeting Salesforce with Fake Data Loader App
Jun 04, 2025Ravie Lakshmanan Threat Intelligence / Data Breach Google has disclosed details of a financially motivated threat cluster that it said "specialises" in voice phishing (aka vishing) campaigns designed to breach organizations' Salesforce instances for large-scale data theft and subsequent extortion. The tech giant's threat intelligence team is tracking the activity under the moniker UNC6040, which it said exhibits[...]
Fake DocuSign, Gitcode Sites Spread NetSupport RAT via Multi-Stage PowerShell Attack
Jun 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananUnited States Threat hunters are alerting to a new campaign that employs deceptive websites to trick unsuspecting users into executing malicious PowerShell scripts on their machines and infect them with the NetSupport RAT malware. The DomainTools Investigations (DTI) team said it identified "malicious multi-stage downloader Powershell scripts" hosted on lure websites that masquerade as Gitcode and DocuSign.[...]
Cryptojacking Campaign Exploits DevOps APIs Using Off-the-Shelf Tools from GitHub
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new cryptojacking campaign that's targeting publicly accessible DevOps web servers such as those associated with Docker, Gitea, and HashiCorp Consul and Nomad to illicitly mine cryptocurrencies. Cloud security firm Wiz, which is tracking the activity under the name JINX-0132, said the attackers are exploiting a wide range of known misconfigurations and vulnerabilities to deliver the[...]
New Linux Flaws Allow Password Hash Theft via Core Dumps in Ubuntu, RHEL, Fedora
May 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Linux Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to obtain access to access sensitive[...]
U.S. DoJ Seizes 4 Domains Supporting Cybercrime Crypting Services in Global Operation
May 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Crime A multinational law enforcement operation has resulted in the takedown of an online cybercrime syndicate that offered services to threat actors to ensure that their malicious software stayed undetected from security software. To that effect, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said it seized four domains and their associated server facilitated the crypting[...]