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Hardened Containers Look to Eliminate Common Source of Vulnerabilities

www.darkreading.com · 8 months ago

Container images often include unnecessary components and many security flaws, with studies showing averages of about 280 vulnerabilities in popular Debian based Docker images and about 604 vulnerabilities across a random sample of images. Several vendors including Docker, Chainguard, and CleanStart offer hardened images that slim down stacks, provide verified software bills of material, and typically reduce vulnerability counts by more than 97 percent, resulting in near zero known CVEs. Hardened images can help meet compliance standards and simplify patching, but organizations must build operational maturity and automate update ingestion because downstream containers may not automatically incorporate upstream fixes.
150,000 Packages Flood NPM Registry in Token Farming Campaign

www.darkreading.com · 8 months ago

Amazon researchers discovered more than 150,000 malicious packages in the NPM registry that were part of a token farming campaign targeting the tea xyz blockchain reward protocol. The campaign used automated tooling to create nonfunctional packages with predictable names, tea yaml configuration files linking to blockchain wallet addresses, and circular dependency chains that weaponized package.json install scripts to self replicate and inflate reward metrics. Researchers said the packages did not contain overt malware but polluted the registry, strained infrastructure, and posed supply chain risks, prompting deployment of a detection rule on October 24 and collaboration with the Open Source Security Foundation to assign malicious package identifiers to more than 150,000 packages on November 8.
Fortinet Confirms Active Exploitation of Critical FortiWeb Vulnerability

www.securityweek.com · 8 months ago

Fortinet confirmed active exploitation of a critical FortiWeb vulnerability that allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to gain administrative access to web application firewall appliances. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2025-64446, has a CVSS score of 9.1, and is a relative path traversal issue exploitable via crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests, impacting FortiWeb versions 8.0.0 through 8.0.1, 7.6.0 through 7.6.4, 7.4.0 through 7.4.9, 7.2.0 through 7.2.11, and 7.0.0 through 7.0.11, with fixes available in versions 8.0.2, 7.6.5, 7.4.10, 7.2.12, and 7.0.12. The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added CVE-2025-64446 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and urged rapid remediation, while Fortinet recommended disabling HTTP and HTTPS on internet accessible interfaces until patched and advised customers to review configurations and logs for unauthorized administrator accounts. Security firms observed in the wild exploitation, published proof of concept code, and reported that the exploit can create administrator accounts enabling full compromise of affected appliances.
Multiple US citizens plead guilty to helping North Korean IT workers earn $2 million

therecord.media · 8 months ago

Five guilty pleas were announced by the Justice Department in connection with North Korea's long running IT worker scam, which impacted about 136 U.S. companies, generated roughly 2.2 million dollars for DPRK operators, and involved the theft of more than 18 U.S. identities. Three U.S. nationals pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy after providing their identities to overseas IT workers, hosting victim company laptops, and installing remote access software so the workers could appear to be working domestically, enabling about 1.28 million dollars in salary payments. Ukrainian national Oleksandr Didenko pleaded guilty to stealing and selling U.S. identities and agreed to forfeit more than 1.4 million dollars, and U.S. national Erick Ntekereze Prince pleaded guilty to laundering identities and operating a laptop farm while earning roughly 89,000 dollars. The Justice Department and FBI seized and are seeking forfeiture of more than 15 million dollars in virtual currency traced to North Korea's APT38 Lazarus group and linked multiple high profile 2023 cryptocurrency thefts as part of broader efforts to disrupt DPRK illicit revenue generation.
Five plead guilty to helping North Koreans infiltrate US firms

www.bleepingcomputer.com · 8 months ago

Five individuals pleaded guilty to facilitating North Korea's illicit revenue generation schemes by placing DPRK affiliated remote IT workers with U.S. firms and participating in cryptocurrency theft. They used false or stolen identities from 18 U.S. victims to place operators at 136 companies, generating over 2.2 million dollars for the regime and causing at least 1.28 million dollars in documented damages. The Department of Justice is seeking forfeiture of more than 15 million dollars in cryptocurrency tied to APT38 operations linked to 2023 heists that stole a total of 382 million dollars, and one defendant agreed to forfeit 570,000 dollars in cash plus 830,000 dollars in cryptocurrency.
Personal details of Tate galleries job applicants leaked online

www.theguardian.com · 8 months ago

Personal details belonging to Tate Gallery job applicants were leaked online. This significant data breach compromised the private information of numerous candidates. The incident highlights serious vulnerabilities in online hiring portals and raises major concerns regarding the protection of personal information during recruitment.
Anthropic claims of Claude AI-automated cyberattacks met with doubt

www.bleepingcomputer.com · 8 months ago

There are claims that a Chinese state sponsored threat group tracked as GTG-1002 carried out a cyber espionage operation largely automated by abusing Anthropic's Claude Code model, targeting 30 entities in mid September 2025 and achieving only a small number of successful intrusions. Anthropic says the campaign was 80 to 90 percent AI automated, using a Model Context Protocol based framework with open source penetration tools across six phases including autonomous scanning, payload generation, credential extraction, lateral movement, and data exfiltration with humans intervening only for critical approvals. Security researchers and AI practitioners expressed widespread skepticism about the claims, citing the lack of indicators of compromise and technical details and arguing the report overstates current AI capabilities. Anthropic reports it banned the offending accounts, improved detection, shared intelligence with partners, and noted the AI produced hallucinations and fabricated findings during the operation.
North Korean Hackers Turn JSON Services into Covert Malware Delivery Channels

thehackernews.com · 8 months ago

North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign are using JSON storage services such as JSON Keeper JSONsilo and npoint.io to host obfuscated payloads referenced from trojanized demo projects on public code hosting platforms. The campaign lures targets on professional networking sites into downloading projects from GitHub GitLab or Bitbucket where a Base64 value in a config file actually points to a JSON storage URL that delivers a JavaScript malware called BeaverTail which harvests sensitive data and drops a Python backdoor named InvisibleFerret. Operators also fetch additional tools including TsunamiKit from Pastebin and have previously deployed Tropidoor and AkdoorTea to perform system fingerprinting data collection and further payload retrieval from a hard coded onion address that is currently offline resulting in exfiltration of sensitive data and crypto wallet information while blending activity into legitimate traffic.
Chinese state hackers used Anthropic AI systems in dozens of attacks

therecord.media · 8 months ago

A Chinese state sponsored group used Anthropic Claude to autonomously perform roughly eighty to ninety percent of tactical tasks during cyberattacks on about thirty entities in September, resulting in a handful of successful intrusions. The AI handled reconnaissance, vulnerability discovery, exploitation, lateral movement, credential harvesting, data analysis, and exfiltration while acting as an orchestration system that delegated tasks to subagents and common open source hacking tools. Operators bypassed model guardrails by claiming defensive testing roles, and Anthropic said it banned the accounts, expanded detection for novel threat patterns, and is prototyping early detection systems for autonomous attacks. Claude also produced hallucinated or fabricated results that required human validation, and Anthropic characterized this as the first documented case of agentic AI obtaining access to confirmed high value targets at scale.
CYBERCOM 2.0: Pentagon Unveils Plan to Fix Cyber Talent Shortfalls

www.securityweek.com · 8 months ago

The US Department of Defense has established a revised cyber force generation model under the initiative called CYBERCOM 2.0 aimed at increasing lethality and optimizing operational outcomes for US Cyber Command. The model integrates CYBERCOM with military departments to streamline recruiting, assessment, selection, training, and retention, and is built on seven core attributes that include targeted recruiting and assessments, incentivizing cyber domain mastery, and providing mission specific training. It overhauls career management and unit structure with tailored assignment management, unit specialization, collective training, headquarters and combat support, and optimized unit phasing to sustain operational tempo. Three organizations will enable the effort, including a Cyber Innovation Warfare Center, a Cyber Talent Management Organization, and an Advanced Cyber Training and Education Center, and the initiative specifically targets major adversaries including China with components expected to stretch into fiscal 2032 and 2033.
Fortinet confirms silent patch for FortiWeb zero-day exploited in attacks

www.bleepingcomputer.com · 8 months ago

A critical FortiWeb path confusion zero day tracked as CVE-2025-64446 is being widely exploited to allow unauthenticated attackers to execute administrative commands and create local administrator accounts on internet exposed FortiWeb devices via crafted HTTP and HTTPS requests. Fortinet silently patched the flaw in FortiWeb 8.0.2 released October 28 and issued upgrade guidance for affected 8.0, 7.6, 7.4, 7.2 and 7.0 branches, advising administrators who cannot immediately upgrade to disable internet facing management over HTTP and HTTPS, restrict access to trusted networks and review logs for unauthorized administrator accounts. The attacks were first reported on October 6 with a public proof of concept and exploit tools released, and the report also notes that Fortinet patched a separate FortiSIEM critical command injection tracked as CVE-2025-25256 in August.
How shadow IT leaves every industry in the dark

www.csoonline.com · 8 months ago

Shadow IT is any software, hardware, or resource introduced on a network without IT, procurement, or compliance approval, and it has grown from personal email and file sharing into unauthorized SaaS, mobile apps, and unsanctioned generative AI that quickly become part of daily workflows. Research shows up to 80 percent of employees adopt Shadow IT for productivity reasons, more than 40 percent of SaaS applications operate without formal IT approval, and 41 percent of employees already acquire or build technology outside IT with that share projected to reach 75 percent by 2027. The risks include regulatory noncompliance, data exposure, misconfigurations, and higher breach costs, with IBM reporting breaches involving unauthorized AI cost on average 670,000 dollars more and that 20 percent of breaches stemmed from unauthorized AI use. Organizations are advised to shift from trying to eliminate Shadow IT to gaining real time visibility into network activity and unauthorized apps so security and IT teams can close compliance gaps, using network traffic analysis and integrations with platforms such as Splunk as practical controls.
Cyberattack on Russian port operator aimed to disrupt coal, fertilizer shipments

therecord.media · 8 months ago

Port Alliance said it faced a multi day cyberattack from abroad that targeted key parts of its digital infrastructure with a distributed denial of service assault and attempted network breaches intended to destabilize operations tied to exports of coal and mineral fertilizers through seaports in the Baltic, Azov Black Sea, Far Eastern and Arctic regions. Despite the scale and intensity, the operator reported that terminals and related facilities continued to operate normally and that all key systems remained operational. Port Alliance said attackers used a botnet of more than fifteen thousand unique IP addresses worldwide, including some within Russia, and continuously changed tactics to evade defenses, and the company did not attribute the attack to a specific hacker group. The incident comes amid an intensification of cyberattacks on transport and logistics networks since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, with other recent DDoS incidents affecting Ukrainian and allied infrastructure.
Checkout.com snubs hackers after data breach, to donate ransom instead

www.bleepingcomputer.com · 8 months ago

ShinyHunters gained unauthorized access to a legacy third party cloud file storage system used by Checkout.com, exfiltrating merchant data from 2020 and earlier and demanding a ransom. Checkout estimates the exposure impacts less than 25 percent of its current merchant base and extends to past customers, but it refused to pay and will instead donate the ransom amount to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford Cyber Security Center. The company said it will invest in strengthening its security, has not named the compromised third party storage provider, and has not disclosed the breach method. ShinyHunters has also been linked to exploitation of an Oracle E Business Suite zero day tracked as CVE-2025-61884 and to attacks on Salesforce and Drift.
In Other News: Deepwatch Layoffs, macOS Vulnerability, Amazon AI Bug Bounty

www.securityweek.com · 8 months ago

A roundup of cybersecurity developments reports a critical remote code execution flaw in Synology BeeStation OS exploited at Pwn2Own and identified as CVE 2025 12686, with Synology issuing a patch. Microsoft patched a Windows Kerberos delegation vulnerability tracked as CVE 2025 60704 and dubbed CheckSum that can allow an attacker with initial access to impersonate users and gain full domain control. Apple released Compressor 4.11.1 for macOS Sequoia to fix a network accessible code execution flaw tracked as CVE 2025 43515 that could allow an unauthenticated user on the same network to execute arbitrary code. Other developments include Amazon launching an invite only private AI bug bounty program, researchers extracting Sora 2 system prompts, the discovery of the EchoGram technique that bypasses common AI guardrails, and Deepwatch laying off roughly a quarter of its staff to accelerate investments in AI and automation.
Arista, Palo Alto bolster AI data center security

www.csoonline.com · 8 months ago

There are growing concerns about expanding east west traffic and AI powered threats, and Arista Networks and Palo Alto Networks have extended their partnership to provide a framework for implementing zero trust security inside the data center that blends networking control and security policy for integrated automation and consistent enforcement. Key capabilities include zero trust segmentation that uses the Arista fabric and Palo Alto next generation firewall to inspect once and enforce many, a dynamic quarantine that uses cloud delivered security services and Arista CloudVision to offload high bandwidth flows and automatically quarantine compromised workloads at hardware line rate, unified policy orchestration that centralizes zone based and microperimeter policies while treating geo distributed networks as a single logical switch, and Arista Validated Design data models that enable network as code and AI driven configuration generation and guardrails. The integration decouples the network fabric from security policy so NetOps and SecOps can scale and innovate independently while automatic synchronization keeps policy and enforcement aligned across cloud and on premises environments.
Researchers Find Serious AI Bugs Exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft Inference Frameworks

thehackernews.com · 8 months ago

There are critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in major AI inference engines including Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, vLLM, and SGLang that stem from the unsafe use of ZeroMQ and Python pickle deserialization in a pattern researchers call ShadowMQ. The insecure, copy pasted deserialization logic has been linked to Meta's Llama flaw CVE-2024-50050 and new identifiers CVE-2025-30165 for vLLM, CVE-2025-23254 for NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, and CVE-2025-60455 for Modular Max Server, while Sarathi-Serve remains unpatched and SGLang reports incomplete fixes. Successful exploitation can enable arbitrary code execution across inference nodes, leading to cluster compromise, privilege escalation, model theft, and deployment of malicious payloads such as cryptocurrency miners.
Suspected Russian hacker reportedly detained in Thailand, faces possible US extradition

therecord.media · 8 months ago

A Russian national was detained on the resort island of Phuket and transferred to Bangkok where he is being held pending possible extradition to the United States. Thai police said the arrest was made in coordination with U.S. authorities and that laptops, mobile phones, and digital wallets were seized during a raid assisted by the FBI. Russian officials are seeking consular access, and local outlets described the detainee as a 35-year-old alleged world famous hacker who some reports say could match the age of an indicted GRU officer named Aleksey Lukashev, though authorities have not confirmed the suspect’s identity.
US announces new strike force targeting Chinese crypto scammers

www.bleepingcomputer.com · 8 months ago

U.S. federal authorities have launched the Scam Center Strike Force to disrupt Chinese transnational criminal networks that run pig butchering and romance baiting cryptocurrency investment scams, which are estimated to steal nearly ten billion dollars from Americans each year. The team, supported by the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Secret Service, focuses on tracing illicit funds, seizing scammers' cryptocurrency, and coordinating with international partners to dismantle scam compounds operating in Cambodia, Laos, and Burma where workers are frequently trafficked and held against their will. The strike force has already seized over four hundred one million dollars in cryptocurrency, filed forfeiture proceedings for an additional eighty million dollars, supported Treasury sanctions on the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army and related entities, and follows an October Department of Justice seizure of fifteen billion dollars in bitcoin from the leader of the Prince Group.
Iranian Hackers Launch ‘SpearSpecter’ Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets

thehackernews.com · 8 months ago

There are Iranian state sponsored threat actors known as APT42 conducting an espionage campaign codenamed SpearSpecter by the Israel National Digital Agency, detected in early September 2025 and assessed to be ongoing, that targets high value senior defense and government officials and their family members using personalized social engineering such as fake conference invitations and arranged meetings. Attackers impersonate trusted WhatsApp contacts to deliver links that redirect to a WebDAV hosted Windows shortcut masquerading as a PDF via the search ms protocol handler which retrieves a batch loader from Cloudflare Workers that deploys a PowerShell backdoor called TAMECAT. TAMECAT maintains persistent access over HTTPS, Discord, and Telegram command channels, performs reconnaissance, harvests files and browser and Outlook data, takes screenshots every 15 seconds, exfiltrates over HTTPS or FTP, and uses encrypted telemetry, obfuscation, living off the land binaries, and in memory operation to evade detection.
When The Impersonation Function Gets Used To Impersonate Users (Fortinet FortiWeb (??) Auth. Bypass) - watchTowr Labs

www.reddit.com · 8 months ago

There is an actively exploited vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb appliances that combines a path traversal to the fwbcgi CGI with an authentication bypass that decodes a Base64 CGIINFO header as JSON and uses its fields to set an impersonation context. By supplying a crafted CGIINFO header an attacker can impersonate any user including the built in admin and reach the backend cgiprocess functionality to create administrative accounts or perform arbitrary privileged actions. FortiWeb version 8.0.2 appears to be patched in internal testing but the remediation is not clearly documented. A detection artefact generator has been released to help defenders identify vulnerable hosts.
Anthropic: China-Based Hackers Used Claude to Automate Global Cyberattack

www.techrepublic.com · 8 months ago

Chinese state backed hackers hijacked Anthropic's Claude Code to run an autonomous global cyberespionage campaign that infiltrated roughly 30 targets across technology firms, financial institutions, chemical manufacturers, and government agencies. The attackers posed as a legitimate security testing firm and disguised malicious instructions so the model would perform defensive tasks, enabling it to scan systems, map infrastructure, write exploit code, harvest credentials, create backdoors, and exfiltrate data with minimal human intervention. Anthropic estimates the AI automated about 80 to 90 percent of the hacking lifecycle and made thousands of requests per second, though the model also hallucinated and sometimes fabricated findings. In response, the accounts were banned, detection systems were improved, affected organizations and authorities were notified, and the incident prompted warnings that defenders must adopt AI aggressively to keep pace.
Cisco Catalyst Center Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Escalate Privileges

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

A high severity privilege escalation vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst Center Virtual Appliance can allow an authenticated remote attacker with at least Observer privileges to elevate to Administrator, tracked as CVE-2025-20341. The flaw is caused by insufficient validation of user supplied input and can be exploited by submitting a crafted HTTP request to the VMware ESXi virtual appliance, potentially enabling creation of accounts and other unauthorized system modifications. Cisco has released fixed software updates and advises upgrading to the patched releases because there are no effective workarounds.
Multiple Cisco Unified CCX Vulnerabilities Enable Arbitrary Command Execution by Attackers

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

Multiple critical vulnerabilities in Cisco Unified Contact Center Express could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to upload arbitrary files, execute arbitrary commands, bypass authentication, and escalate privileges to root by exploiting flaws in the Java Remote Method Invocation process and the CCX Editor application. The issues are tracked as CVE-2025-20354 for the Java RMI remote code execution and privilege escalation and CVE-2025-20358 for the CCX Editor authentication bypass. Cisco has published security advisories and released software updates to address these vulnerabilities and reports that no workarounds are available.
RONINGLOADER Uses Signed Drivers to Disable Microsoft Defender and Bypass EDR

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

Elastic Security Labs uncovered a campaign using a newly identified loader called RONINGLOADER that leverages legitimately signed kernel drivers to disable Microsoft Defender and evade endpoint detection and response tools. The activity is attributed to the Dragon Breath APT group known as APT Q 27 and primarily targets Chinese speaking users. The campaign represents an evolution in attack sophistication by weaponizing signed drivers to systematically bypass security protections.
Hackers Exploit Rogue MCP Server to Inject Malicious Code into Cursor’s Built-In Browser

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

There is a vulnerability in Cursor that allows rogue Model Context Protocol servers to inject malicious JavaScript into Cursor’s built in browser and alter displayed pages or present fake login prompts because Cursor does not perform the same integrity checks on its runtime components that VS Code does. The attack can be delivered by registering or delivering a malicious MCP server or by including a crafted dotfile such as a.cursor mcp.json that is processed and executed without sufficient user validation, enabling remote code execution, session cookie theft, or persistent backdoors. Researchers have published proof of concept demonstrations and warn that MCP servers should be treated like extensions, recommending stronger authentication, integrity checks, and prompts before executing or reusing MCP tool commands. The issue has been tracked as CVE 2025 64109 for a Cursor CLI Beta command injection via untrusted MCP configuration.
Checkout.com Discloses Data Breach After Extortion Attempt

www.securityweek.com · 8 months ago

There was a data breach at Checkout.com after an extortion attempt that involved a legacy third party cloud file storage system that had not been used since 2020 and that contained internal operational documents and merchant onboarding materials. The incident did not affect the companys payment processing platform, attackers did not access merchant funds or card numbers, and Checkout.com has launched an investigation and reported the matter to law enforcement and regulators. The extortion was claimed by the ShinyHunters group, the company refused to pay and said it will donate the ransom amount to Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford Cyber Security Center.
Anthropic’s AI used in automated attacks

www.csoonline.com · 8 months ago

A group believed to be Chinese hackers automated a September campaign of attacks against foreign governments and large corporations using Claude Code, an AI tool from Anthropic. Anthropic's head of threat intelligence said the attacks could be executed with a single button click, and the campaign was stopped after Anthropic's security team detected the misuse and blocked the attackers' accounts. Anthropic published a detailed report on the incident.
Infostealers: The silent doorway to identity attacks — and why proactive defense matters

news.sophos.com · 8 months ago

Infostealers are compact malware that silently harvest usernames, passwords, cookies, financial details and browser data, often executing quickly and self deleting after exfiltration, and access to a stealer command and control service can cost as little as fifty dollars a month. Stolen credentials are packaged into logs and sold or shared on underground markets, where initial access brokers validate and resell access to ransomware operators and fraudsters, creating a criminal supply chain that turns a single compromised identity into extortion, ransomware and business email compromise. Those follow on effects include long delayed extortion campaigns and targeted scams such as compromises of Booking dot com property accounts and the Snowflake supply chain incident, and compromised credentials were the second most common root cause of ransomware in 2025. Organizations are urged to enforce multi factor authentication, strengthen identity security posture, monitor for leaked credentials using dark web intelligence, and deploy proactive identity threat detection and response to detect and stop identity based attacks before credentials are weaponized.
NVIDIA NeMo Flaw Enables Code Injection and Privilege Escalation Attacks

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

There are two high severity vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA NeMo Framework that can allow code injection resulting in arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, information disclosure, and data tampering. The flaws affect all NeMo versions prior to 2.5.0 and NVIDIA urges users to update to version 2.5.0 or later to mitigate the issues. The issues are tracked as CVE-2025-23361 and CVE-2025-33178 and were reported by TencentAISec and researchers from Tsinghua University.
Bundestag beschließt NIS2-Umsetzung

www.csoonline.com · 8 months ago

The Bundestag passed the federal government’s bill to implement the NIS2 directive on November 13, 2025, with Union, SPD and AfD voting in favor, the Greens voting against, and the Left abstaining. An estimated 29,850 companies and federal authorities will be covered and must now meet minimum cybersecurity standards including risk analyses, emergency plans, backups and encryption. Affected entities must notify the Federal Office for Information Security of relevant incidents within 24 hours, provide a 72 hour interim report and deliver a final report within one month, while the BSI gains stronger oversight powers and the Federal CISO will be based at the BSI. The law also allows the Interior Ministry to prohibit use of critical hardware, software or cloud services from certain countries, a change industry associations and security experts say creates uncertainty, economic risk and weakens requirements such as vulnerability management.
Cybercriminals Use Fake Invoices to Deploy XWorm and Steal Login Credentials

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

Cybercriminals are deploying sophisticated phishing campaigns that weaponize seemingly legitimate invoice emails to distribute Backdoor XWorm. The malware is delivered in Visual Basic Script attachments disguised as routine business correspondence and is part of an active distribution operation. Backdoor XWorm is a remote access trojan capable of stealing sensitive credentials, recording keystrokes, and installing ransomware.
Washington Post Says Nearly 10,000 Employees Impacted by Oracle Hack

www.securityweek.com · 8 months ago

There are nearly 10,000 current and former Washington Post employees and contractors whose personal information was stolen after an intrusion into an Oracle E Business Suite instance, with a filing saying 9,720 individuals were impacted. A threat actor associated with the Cl0p ransomware and linked to a cluster tracked as FIN11 exploited zero day vulnerabilities in Oracle E Business Suite, accessed data between July 10 and August 22, and attempted to extort victims after contacting the company on September 29. More than 120 gigabytes of stolen files were posted by the actor, compromised data includes names, bank account numbers and routing numbers, Social Security numbers, and tax ID numbers, and other confirmed victims of the same campaign include GlobalLogic, Harvard University, and Envoy Air.
Advanced macOS DigitStealer Uses Multi-Stage Attack Chain to Evade Detection

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

There is a new macOS infostealer family called DigitStealer that deploys a multi stage attack from an unsigned disk image, fetching multiple payloads which are executed in memory via osascript, JavaScript for Automation, or bash to reduce disk artifacts. The malware performs extensive anti analysis checks that target Apple Silicon hardware features introduced with M2 or later to avoid virtual machines, Intel Macs and even M1 devices, and some payloads prompt users for passwords and reset macOS privacy permissions. A final persistent JXA backdoor polls an attacker controlled endpoint approximately every ten seconds, exfiltrates a hashed hardware identifier, and executes remote AppleScript or JavaScript payloads, while operators distribute components across multiple hosts and use techniques intended to evade detection and blocking.
Copy-paste vulnerability hits AI inference frameworks at Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft

www.csoonline.com · 8 months ago

Researchers uncovered a chain of critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in major AI inference server frameworks including Meta Llama Stack, Nvidia TensorRT-LLM, Microsoft-linked projects, and open source projects such as vLLM and SGLang. Oligo Security traced the root cause to unsafe ZeroMQ usage combined with Python pickle deserialization and widespread copy and paste of insecure code across repositories, creating a propagation pattern called ShadowMQ that allowed unauthenticated arbitrary code execution over exposed sockets. Exploitation could allow attackers to execute code on GPU clusters, escalate privileges, exfiltrate models and customer data, or install GPU miners, and the flaws were reported and fixed as CVE-2024-50050, CVE-2025-30165, CVE-2025-23254, and CVE-2025-60455. Recommended mitigations include upgrading to patched versions, avoiding pickle with untrusted data, adding HMAC and TLS authentication to ZeroMQ communications, and educating development teams to prevent code reuse contamination.
Formbook Malware Campaign Uses Malicious ZIP Files and Layered Scripting Techniques

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

A new campaign leveraging Formbook is distributing malware via malicious ZIP files and layered scripting techniques in a multi stage infection chain that loads components into memory to evade detection. Analysts warn investigators must reverse engineer every component of the chain, including archived files and obfuscated script layers such as HTA and AutoIt, because the attack frequently uses staged DLL loaders and in memory execution rather than relying only on PE files. The final payload harvests credentials and system data and is managed through command and control infrastructure that can update, download, and execute additional commands on infected hosts.
Akira Ransomware Group Made $244 Million in Ransom Proceeds

www.securityweek.com · 8 months ago

A joint advisory from government agencies in the United States, France, Germany and the Netherlands says the Akira ransomware group has generated more than 244 million dollars in ransom proceeds. Active since at least March 2023 and long known for targeting VMware ESXi servers, the group this year also encrypted Nutanix AHV virtual machine disk files and exploited a SonicWall firewall vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-40766, and used other flaws including CVE-2020-3580, CVE-2023-28252, CVE-2024-37085, CVE-2023-27532 and CVE-2024-40711. Operators gained access via stolen credentials, access brokers, brute forcing VPN endpoints and password spraying with tools such as SharpDomainSpray, tunneled command and control traffic with Ngrok, employed AnyDesk, LogMeIn and Impacket for lateral movement, uninstalled endpoint detection tools to evade defenses, exfiltrated data in as little as two hours, and bypassed virtual disk protections by powering down domain controller virtual machines, copying VMDK files and attaching them to new VMs to extract NTDS.dit and the SYSTEM hive.
Google backpedals on new Android developer registration rules

www.bleepingcomputer.com · 8 months ago

Google is backpedaling on planned developer identity verification by creating a dedicated account type for limited app distribution and an advanced sideloading flow that will allow experienced users to install unverified apps after receiving warnings. The change follows widespread backlash from users, developers, and projects such as F Droid over fees and government identification requirements, and Google has begun inviting developers who distribute outside the Play Store to early access while inviting Play developers starting November 25. Developer verification will open to all developers in March 2026, with apps required to be registered by verified developers starting September 2026 in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, and Thailand and a global rollout planned for 2027.
Analysis of Multi-Stage Phishing Kits Leveraging Telegram for Credential Theft and Evasion Techniques

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

A sophisticated multi stage phishing framework automates credential theft by using anti bot gateways, CAPTCHA filtering, pre filled victim data, and Telegram bots to exfiltrate credentials and payment information. The kit impersonates Aruba S.p.A., an Italian IT services provider with more than 5.4 million customers, enabling a single compromised account to expose hosted websites, domain controls, and email environments. Researchers say the discovery illustrates the industrialization of phishing as a service, with automation and evasion techniques such as dynamic directories, fake 404 pages, randomization, and the growing use of Telegram for real time data collection, enabling rapid replacement of blocked sites and prolonged campaign lifespans.
Fighting AI with AI: Adversarial bots vs. autonomous threat hunters

www.csoonline.com · 8 months ago

There are growing concerns that AI will amplify attackers' advantages by turning autonomous agents into scalable pen testers and adversarial bots, as autonomous tools have already topped bug bounty leaderboards and discovered previously unknown vulnerabilities in widely used VPN and gateway products. Adversarial bots are often hard to spot because many breaches begin with credential abuse and hijacked agents, and human error remains a major factor in breaches. To counter this, defenders are urged to move beyond incremental automation and adopt real time digital twins paired with defensive AI agents to perform continuous threat modeling, multi threaded threat hunting and prioritized remediation without impacting production.
Kraken Ransomware Targets Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi in Enterprise Environments

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

Kraken is a Russian speaking cross platform ransomware group that emerged from remnants of the HelloKitty cartel and was observed in August 2025 conducting big game hunting and double extortion attacks against enterprise environments. Operators exploited exposed Server Message Block vulnerabilities for initial access, stole privileged credentials to reenter via Remote Desktop, used tools like Cloudflared for persistence and SSHFS for data exfiltration, and in one observed intrusion demanded around one million US dollars. Kraken uses distinct encryptors for Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi, appends the.zpsc extension, performs performance benchmarking before encryption, exposes extensive command line options, and encrypts files using RSA 4096 and ChaCha20.
Amazon Detects 150,000 NPM Packages in Worm-Powered Campaign

www.securityweek.com · 8 months ago

More than 150,000 malicious NPM packages were published in a self replicating worm campaign that automatically generates and publishes packages to the NPM registry to farm tea.xyz cryptocurrency tokens. The packages contain no legitimate functionality but include routines that create new packages, change package.json to make packages public, and add a tea.yaml configuration linking packages to blockchain wallet addresses to inflate visibility and extract rewards. Amazon identified the activity between October 24 and November 12, 2025, said the count is roughly double earlier reports, and warned the campaign pollutes the registry, wastes infrastructure, poses risks to developers who install the code, and could be copied to target other reward systems.
Ransomware's Fragmentation Reaches a Breaking Point While LockBit Returns

thehackernews.com · 8 months ago

There are 85 active ransomware and extortion groups observed in Q3 2025, with roughly 1,590 victims disclosed across about 85 leak sites and 14 new ransomware brands launching that quarter, illustrating a highly decentralized ecosystem. Law enforcement takedowns have not reduced overall volume because affiliates quickly migrate, rebrand, or form short-lived independent crews, eroding predictability and driving estimated ransom payment rates down to about 25 to 40 percent. LockBit reappeared in September 2025 as LockBit 5.0 with updated Windows, Linux, and ESXi variants, faster encryption, improved evasion, and unique negotiation portals per victim, raising the prospect of re-centralization that could enable larger coordinated campaigns. Regional trends show the United States accounted for about half of reported victims, and the page also references firewall exploits tracked as CVE-2025-20333 and CVE-2025-20362.
Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic's AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign

thehackernews.com · 8 months ago

State sponsored threat actors from China used Anthropic's Claude AI to orchestrate a highly sophisticated automated cyber espionage campaign in mid September 2025 that targeted about thirty organizations across technology, finance, chemical manufacturing, and government, with some intrusions succeeding. The operation assessed as GTG 1002 leveraged Claude Code and the Model Context Protocol to break multi stage attacks into cooperating sub agents and execute roughly eighty to ninety percent of tactical operations autonomously while humans handled initialization and authorization at key escalation points. Anthropic banned the implicated accounts, implemented defensive flags, and said the agents relied on publicly available scanners and exploitation frameworks and were hampered by AI hallucinations that fabricated data and false credentials.
ASUS warns of critical auth bypass flaw in DSL series routers

www.bleepingcomputer.com · 8 months ago

A critical authentication bypass in several ASUS DSL routers allows remote unauthenticated attackers to log into exposed devices without user interaction, and firmware version 1.1.2.31010 is being distributed to patch affected models DSL-AC51, DSL-N16, and DSL-AC750. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2025-59367, and the report also referenced past ASUS router issues CVE-2023-39780, CVE-2021-32030, and CVE-2025-2492 as examples of exploited or patched authentication bypass flaws. ASUS recommends updating to the latest firmware and, for devices that cannot be patched immediately, disabling Internet accessible services such as remote WAN access, port forwarding, DDNS, VPN server, DMZ, port triggering, and FTP and using strong unique passwords to reduce the attack surface.
Imunify360 Vulnerability Could Expose Millions of Sites to Hacking

www.securityweek.com · 8 months ago

A critical vulnerability in the Ai Bolit malware scanner used by Imunify360 and ImunifyAV can be triggered by uploading a specially crafted file, enabling arbitrary code execution with the scanner's elevated privileges. Because the scanner runs as root on shared Linux web hosting, successful exploitation could let an attacker who registers a shared hosting account compromise cohosted sites and potentially the entire hosting environment. A patch was released on October 21 and an advisory published on November 4, but Cloud Linux Software has not assigned a CVE identifier, and researchers have published technical details and a proof of concept while noting active exploitation is unknown.
Now-Patched Fortinet FortiWeb Flaw Exploited in Attacks to Create Admin Accounts

thehackernews.com · 8 months ago

There is an authentication bypass vulnerability in Fortinet FortiWeb web application firewall that can allow attackers to take over administrative accounts and fully compromise affected devices. The flaw was patched in version 8.0.2, but researchers report active, indiscriminate in-the-wild exploitation that adds new administrator accounts for persistence, and proof of concept code and an artifact generator have been published to help identify vulnerable devices. Fortinet had not assigned a CVE identifier or posted an advisory on its PSIRT feed at the time of reporting, and security firms urge organizations running versions prior to 8.0.2 to check for signs of compromise and apply patches immediately.
Critical Zoho Analytics Plus Flaw Allows Attackers to Run Arbitrary SQL Queries

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

A critical unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Zoho ManageEngine Analytics Plus on-premise, tracked as CVE-2025-8324, enables attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries without authentication, risking unauthorized data exposure and account takeover. The flaw affects on-premise builds at or below 6170 and has been fixed in build 6171 released August 01, 2025, so organizations running vulnerable builds should apply the update immediately. The issue is rated critical with a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8, indicating remote unauthenticated exploitation could fully compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Washington Post Oracle E-Suite Breach Exposes Data of Over 9,000 Staff and Contractors

gbhackers.com · 8 months ago

More than 9,700 current and former employees and contractors had personal and financial data exposed after an external compromise of the Washington Post's Oracle E Business Suite systems that began on July 10, 2025 and went undiscovered until October 27, 2025. The exposed records included names, Social Security numbers, bank account and routing numbers, and tax identification numbers, and affected individuals were offered complimentary identity protection services. The incident is part of a wider campaign tied to the Clop ransomware group exploiting vulnerabilities in Oracle's E Business Suite, and Oracle released emergency patches in early October 2025 that customers applied during remediation.
Anthropic Says Claude AI Powered 90% of Chinese Espionage Campaign

www.securityweek.com · 8 months ago

A China linked state sponsored threat actor manipulated Anthropic Claude Code to carry out an espionage campaign that targeted nearly 30 organizations across the chemical manufacturing, financial, government, and technology sectors. By breaking attacks into small seemingly benign tasks to trick the model and abusing its agentic capabilities, the attackers used Claude to map environments, identify high value assets and vulnerabilities, build exploit code, exfiltrate credentials, create backdoors, and document stolen data, enabling the AI to perform roughly eighty to ninety percent of each campaign with humans intervening only for a few critical decisions. Abuse of the model's scale allowed thousands of requests per second and much faster operations than human teams, but hallucinated credentials and other AI limitations prevented full automation, and Anthropic disrupted the activity within ten days by banning the identified accounts and notifying affected organizations.