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Malware

New Shai Hulud NPM Worm Emerges

Researchers from Wiz are currently tracking more than 25,000 affected repositories across approximately 350 unique users.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
Ransomware

Marks and Spencer’s Profit Drop: The Financial Toll of Cyberattacks

The financial impacts of cyberattacks are hard to measure – but they lend critical context to conversations around security risk at the boardroom level.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 5 min
APT

APT Targets Cisco and Citrix Zero Days

The chain of discovery began with Amazon’s security honeypot service, MadPot, which detected exploitation attempts for the Citrix Bleed Two vulnerability (CVE-2025-5777) before its public disclosure

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
AI

Google: Threat Actors Testing AI During Malware Execution

Threat actors are now using LLMs in malware during execution, as a way to alter the malware’s behavior to enable detection evasion and more.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 3 min
North Korea

New Lazarus Group Campaign Targets EU Defense Companies

The suspected objective of the Lazarus group was the exfiltration of proprietary information and manufacturing expertise, particularly pertaining to UAV technology.

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
Data Breach

F5: Attacker Accessed BIG-IP Source Code, Bug Data

The company discovered the intrusion in August but did not say when the attackers first gained access to F5’s systems or how long they had access.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
Clop

Oracle Clop Data Theft Campaign Started Months Ago

The Clop extortion campaign on Oracle customers last week stemmed from months of intrusion activity tracking back to July 10.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 2 min
Ransomware

Akira Ransomware Actors Target SonicWall SSLVPN

This aggressive approach aligns with Akira’s historical tactics of exploiting VPN infrastructure as an initial access vector.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
Malware

Cisco Warns of Attacks on Two ASA Flaws

Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence team said this campaign is the work of an actor it tracks as UAT4356, an APT team that has previously targeted ASA devices.

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
Malware

Three Takeaways From the EU Airport Outages

The incident is a pointed example of how an intrusion at a key point in the software supply chain can have a wide range of downstream effects.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
APT

Russian APT Groups Turla, Gamaredon Collaborate to Target High-Profile Ukrainian Entities

In a new report, ESET researchers have detailed several instances when the two groups’ tools have been found on the same compromised machines in Ukraine.

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
Microsoft

Microsoft, Cloudflare Disrupt RaccoonO365 Phishing Kit Service

Microsoft and Cloudflare this week announced that they paired up to disrupt RaccoonO365, a phishing-as-a-service cybercriminal enterprise.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 3 min
AI

New Automated npm Attack Campaign Targets Dozens of Packages

The campaign does not appear to be connected to the previous npm phishing attacks, but it does seem to be related to a rash of GitHub and npm token and secret thefts from the end of August.

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
Microsoft

Senator Flags Microsoft’s Role in the Ascension Ransomware Hack

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wants the U.S. government to hold Microsoft responsible “for contributing to ransomware attacks against critical U.S. infrastructure” like Ascension.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 2 min
Data Breach

Attack Compromises Popular NPM Packages

The affected packages include Chalk and Debug, and one of the contributors to those packages said the compromise was the result of him clicking on a phishing email related to setting up 2FA on his account.

Dennis Fisher · 4 min
Government

Wyden Slams Federal Judiciary After Court Hack

In a scathing letter, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) blasted the federal judiciary for its handling of a (second) hack of the federal courts’ case management system earlier this year.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 3 min
Cloud

Cloudflare Details Salesloft Drift Breach

This incident is the latest to stem from an intrusion at Salesloft in which attackers used OAuth tokens to target Salesloft customers’ Salesforce integrations.

Dennis Fisher · 3 min
Data Breach

UNC6395 Expands Data Theft Campaign to Email OAuth Tokens

Google researchers discovered the new attacks and are advising all customers to treat any authentication tokens for those integrations as compromised.

Dennis Fisher · 2 min
China

US Gov Links Private Chinese Firms to Salt Typhoon Hacks

Salt Typhoon has not been observed exploiting zero-day flaws, but instead targeting known bugs in exposed network edge devices – some of which are years old.

Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch · 3 min
Ransomware

Attacks Hit Possible SonicWall Zero Day

Attackers are exploiting a likely zero day vulnerability in some versions of SonicWall Firewall devices with the SSL VPN functionality enabled, and in some cases are able to bypass MFA protections.  The intrusions have been ongoing since at least the end of last week, and researchers have observed some attackers deploying the Akira ransomware after…

Dennis Fisher · 2 min

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