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PhantomRaven Malware Found in 126 npm Packages Stealing GitHub Tokens From Devs

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered yet another active software supply chain attack campaign targeting the npm registry with over 100 malicious packages that can steal authentication tokens, CI/CD secrets, and GitHub credentials from developers' machines. The campaign has been codenamed PhantomRaven by Koi Security. The activity is assessed to have begun in August 2025, when the first

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Former US Defense Contractor Executive Admits to Selling Exploits to Russia

Peter Williams stole trade secrets from his US employer and sold them to a Russian cybersecurity tools broker. The post Former US Defense Contractor Executive Admits to Selling Exploits to Russia appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Experts Reports Sharp Increase in Automated Botnet Attacks Targeting PHP Servers and IoT Devices

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a spike in automated attacks targeting PHP servers, IoT devices, and cloud gateways by various botnets such as Mirai, Gafgyt, and Mozi. "These automated campaigns exploit known CVE vulnerabilities and cloud misconfigurations to gain control over exposed systems and expand botnet networks," the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) said in a report

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New AI-Targeted Cloaking Attack Tricks AI Crawlers Into Citing Fake Info as Verified Facts

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new security issue in agentic web browsers like OpenAI ChatGPT Atlas that exposes underlying artificial intelligence (AI) models to context poisoning attacks. In the attack devised by AI security company SPLX, a bad actor can set up websites that serve different content to browsers and AI crawlers run by ChatGPT and Perplexity. The technique has been

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MITRE Unveils ATT&CK v18 With Updates to Detections, Mobile, ICS

MITRE has unveiled the latest version of ATT&CK, with the most significant changes in the defensive part of the framework. The post MITRE Unveils ATT&CK v18 With Updates to Detections, Mobile, ICS appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Women In Cybersecurity Report, Fall 2025

This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 29, 2025 – Watch the YouTube video The Women in Cybersecurity Report, a 2-minute video hosted by Cybercrime Magazine Deputy Editor Amanda Glassner, highlights the latest breakthroughs, voices, and stories from women leading The post Women In Cybersecurity Report, Fall 2025 appeared first on Cybercrime Magazine.

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AI Security Firm Polygraf Raises $9.5 Million in Seed Funding

Polygraf AI has developed proprietary small language model (SLM) technology designed to help organizations mitigate AI risks. The post AI Security Firm Polygraf Raises $9.5 Million in Seed Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Preparing for the Digital Battlefield of 2026: Ghost Identities, Poisoned Accounts, & AI Agent Havoc

BeyondTrust’s annual cybersecurity predictions point to a year where old defenses will fail quietly, and new attack vectors will surge. Introduction The next major breach won’t be a phished password. It will be the result of a massive, unmanaged identity debt. This debt takes many forms: it’s the “ghost” identity from a 2015 breach lurking in your IAM, the privilege sprawl from thousands of new

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Russian Hackers Target Ukrainian Organizations Using Stealthy Living-Off-the-Land Tactics

Organizations in Ukraine have been targeted by threat actors of Russian origin with an aim to siphon sensitive data and maintain persistent access to compromised networks. The activity, according to a new report from the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team, targeted a large business services organization for two months and a local government entity in the country for a week. The attacks

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CyberRidge Emerges From Stealth With $26 Million for Photonic Encryption Solution

The company has built a plug-and-play photonic layer transmission system that encrypts data in transit to prevent interception. The post CyberRidge Emerges From Stealth With $26 Million for Photonic Encryption Solution appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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XWiki Vulnerability Exploited in Cryptocurrency Mining Operation

Exploits have been available publicly for over half a year, but the bug was previously targeted only for reconnaissance. The post XWiki Vulnerability Exploited in Cryptocurrency Mining Operation appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Ad and PR Giant Dentsu Says Hackers Stole Merkle Data

Japan’s Dentsu has disclosed a Merkle data breach impacting clients, suppliers, and employees. The post Ad and PR Giant Dentsu Says Hackers Stole Merkle Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Discover Practical AI Tactics for GRC — Join the Free Expert Webinar

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC). It's no longer a future concept—it's here, and it's already reshaping how teams operate. AI's capabilities are profound: it's speeding up audits, flagging critical risks faster, and drastically cutting down on time-consuming manual work. This leads to greater efficiency, higher accuracy, and a more

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Chrome to Turn HTTPS on by Default for Public Sites

Starting October 2026, the browser will ask users if they want to access public websites that do not use secure connections. The post Chrome to Turn HTTPS on by Default for Public Sites appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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10 npm Packages Caught Stealing Developer Credentials on Windows, macOS, and Linux

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of 10 malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver an information stealer targeting Windows, Linux, and macOS systems. "The malware uses four layers of obfuscation to hide its payload, displays a fake CAPTCHA to appear legitimate, fingerprints victims by IP address, and downloads a 24MB PyInstaller-packaged information stealer that harvests

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CISA Warns of Exploited DELMIA Factory Software Vulnerabilities

Two DELMIA Apriso flaws can be chained together to gain privileged access to the application and execute arbitrary code remotely. The post CISA Warns of Exploited DELMIA Factory Software Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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New Attack Targets DDR5 Memory to Steal Keys From Intel and AMD TEEs 

Intel and AMD have published advisories after academics disclosed details of the new TEE.fail attack method. The post New Attack Targets DDR5 Memory to Steal Keys From Intel and AMD TEEs  appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Active Exploits Hit Dassault and XWiki — CISA Confirms Critical Flaws Under Attack

Threat actors are actively exploiting multiple security flaws impacting Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso and XWiki, according to alerts issued by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and VulnCheck. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2025-6204 (CVSS score: 8.0) - A code injection vulnerability in Dassault Systèmes DELMIA Apriso that could allow an attacker to

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Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies

Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support a more low-key, lucrative and sustainable business: Renting hundreds of thousands of infected Internet of Things (IoT) devices to proxy services that help cybercriminals anonymize their traffic. Experts says a glut of proxies from Aisuru and other sources is fueling large-scale data harvesting efforts tied to various artificial intelligence (AI) projects, helping content scrapers evade detection by routing their traffic through residential connections that appear to be regular Internet users.

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New TEE.Fail Side-Channel Attack Extracts Secrets from Intel and AMD DDR5 Secure Enclaves

A group of academic researchers from Georgia Tech, Purdue University, and Synkhronix have developed a side-channel attack called TEE.Fail that allows for the extraction of secrets from the trusted execution environment (TEE) in a computer's main processor, including Intel's Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) and Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) and AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure