Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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5 Plead Guilty in US to Helping North Korean IT Workers

Audricus Phagnasay, Jason Salazar, Alexander Paul Travis, Erick Ntekereze, and Oleksandr Didenko have pleaded guilty. The post 5 Plead Guilty in US to Helping North Korean IT Workers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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⚡ Weekly Recap: Fortinet Exploited, China's AI Hacks, PhaaS Empire Falls & More

This week showed just how fast things can go wrong when no one’s watching. Some attacks were silent and sneaky. Others used tools we trust every day — like AI, VPNs, or app stores — to cause damage without setting off alarms. It’s not just about hacking anymore. Criminals are building systems to make money, spy, or spread malware like it’s a business. And in some cases, they’re using the same

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5 Reasons Why Attackers Are Phishing Over LinkedIn

Phishing attacks are no longer confined to the email inbox, with 1 in 3 phishing attacks now taking place over non-email channels like social media, search engines, and messaging apps. LinkedIn in particular has become a hotbed for phishing attacks, and for good reason. Attackers are running sophisticated spear-phishing attacks against company executives, with recent campaigns seen targeting

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Dragon Breath Uses RONINGLOADER to Disable Security Tools and Deploy Gh0st RAT

The threat actor known as Dragon Breath has been observed making use of a multi-stage loader codenamed RONINGLOADER to deliver a modified variant of a remote access trojan called Gh0st RAT. The campaign, which is primarily aimed at Chinese-speaking users, employs trojanized NSIS installers masquerading as legitimate like Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams, according to Elastic Security Labs. "The

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Logitech Confirms Data Breach Following Designation as Oracle Hack Victim

Logitech was listed on the Cl0p ransomware leak website in early November, but its disclosure does not mention Oracle. The post Logitech Confirms Data Breach Following Designation as Oracle Hack Victim appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Widespread Exploitation of XWiki Vulnerability Observed

The exploitation of the recent XWiki vulnerability has expanded to botnets, cryptocurrency miners, scanners, and custom tools. The post Widespread Exploitation of XWiki Vulnerability Observed appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Rust Adoption Drives Android Memory Safety Bugs Below 20% for First Time

Google has disclosed that the company's continued adoption of the Rust programming language in Android has resulted in the number of memory safety vulnerabilities falling below 20% for the first time. "We adopted Rust for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code. But the biggest surprise was Rust's impact on

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2025 Edition

Microsoft this week pushed security updates to fix more than 60 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including at least one zero-day bug that is already being exploited. Microsoft also fixed a glitch that prevented some Windows 10 users from taking advantage of an extra year of security updates, which is nice because the zero-day flaw and other critical weaknesses patched today affect all versions of Windows, including Windows 10.

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RondoDox Exploits Unpatched XWiki Servers to Pull More Devices Into Its Botnet

The botnet malware known as RondoDox has been observed targeting unpatched XWiki instances against a critical security flaw that could allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-24893 (CVSS score: 9.8), an eval injection bug that could allow any guest user to perform arbitrary remote code execution through a request to the "/bin/get/Main/

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Five Plead Guilty in U.S. for Helping North Korean IT Workers Infiltrate 136 Companies

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday announced that five individuals have pleaded guilty to assisting North Korea's illicit revenue generation schemes by enabling information technology (IT) worker fraud in violation of international sanctions. The five individuals are listed below - Audricus Phagnasay, 24 Jason Salazar, 30 Alexander Paul Travis, 34 Oleksandr Didenko, 28, and Erick

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Fortinet Confirms Active Exploitation of Critical FortiWeb Vulnerability

Security firms say the flaw has been actively exploited for weeks, even as Fortinet quietly shipped fixes and CISA added the bug to its KEV catalog. The post Fortinet Confirms Active Exploitation of Critical FortiWeb Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Personal details of Tate galleries job applicants leaked online

Sensitive information relates to more than 100 individuals and their refereesPersonal details submitted by applicants for a job at Tate art galleries have been leaked online, exposing their addresses, salaries and the phone numbers of their referees, the Guardian has learned.The records, running to hundreds of pages, appeared on a website unrelated to the government-sponsored organisation, which operates the Tate Modern and Tate Britain galleries in London, Tate St Ives in Cornwall and Tate Liverpool. Continue reading...

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North Korean Hackers Turn JSON Services into Covert Malware Delivery Channels

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage malicious payloads. "The threat actors have recently resorted to utilizing JSON storage services like JSON Keeper, JSONsilo, and npoint.io to host and deliver malware from trojanized code projects, with the lure," NVISO researchers Bart Parys, Stef

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CYBERCOM 2.0: Pentagon Unveils Plan to Fix Cyber Talent Shortfalls

The goal is to produce a cyber force capable of defeating threats posed by major adversaries such as China. The post CYBERCOM 2.0: Pentagon Unveils Plan to Fix Cyber Talent Shortfalls appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Bargain hunters urged to stay alert to cyber scams ahead of holiday shopping season

The latest Stop! Think Fraud campaign provides practical advice to help individuals stay secure online

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In Other News: Deepwatch Layoffs, macOS Vulnerability, Amazon AI Bug Bounty

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: EchoGram attack undermines AI guardrails, Asahi brewer still crippled after ransomware attack, Sora 2 system prompt uncovered. The post In Other News: Deepwatch Layoffs, macOS Vulnerability, Amazon AI Bug Bounty appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Researchers Find Serious AI Bugs Exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft Inference Frameworks

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including those from Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open-source PyTorch projects such as vLLM and SGLang. "These vulnerabilities all traced back to the same root cause: the overlooked unsafe use of ZeroMQ (ZMQ) and Python's pickle deserialization,"

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Iranian Hackers Launch ‘SpearSpecter’ Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets

The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. The activity, detected in early September 2025 and assessed to be ongoing, has been codenamed SpearSpecter by the Israel National Digital Agency (INDA). "The

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Cybersecurity Lessons For Leaders: Designing Resilience at Scale

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Nov. 14, 2025 – Read the full story in Forbes “As an AI entrepreneur and cybersecurity leader, I’ve watched compliance frameworks struggle to keep pace with modern threats,” writes Nishant Sonkar, Global The post Cybersecurity Lessons For Leaders: Designing Resilience at Scale appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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Checkout.com Discloses Data Breach After Extortion Attempt

The information was stolen from a legacy cloud file storage system, not from its payment processing platform. The post Checkout.com Discloses Data Breach After Extortion Attempt appeared first on SecurityWeek.