Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Chinese Hackers Exploit Ivanti CSA Zero-Days in Attacks on French Government, Telecoms

The French cybersecurity agency on Tuesday revealed that a number of entities spanning governmental, telecommunications, media, finance, and transport sectors in the country were impacted by a malicious campaign undertaken by a Chinese hacking group by weaponizing several zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance (CSA) devices. The campaign, detected at the beginning of

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Critical Cisco Vulnerability in Unified CM Grants Root Access via Static Credentials

Cisco has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM) and Unified Communications Manager Session Management Edition (Unified CM SME) that could permit an attacker to login to a susceptible device as the root user, allowing them to gain elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20309, carries a CVSS score

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North Korean Hackers Target Web3 with Nim Malware and Use ClickFix in BabyShark Campaign

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed targeting Web3 and cryptocurrency-related businesses with malware written in the Nim programming language, underscoring a constant evolution of their tactics. "Unusually for macOS malware, the threat actors employ a process injection technique and remote communications via wss, the TLS-encrypted version of the WebSocket protocol,"

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Like Ransoming a Bike: Organizational Muscle Memory Drives the Most Effective Response

Ransomware is a major threat to the enterprise. Tools and training help, but survival depends on one thing: your organization’s muscle memory to respond fast and recover stronger. The post Like Ransoming a Bike: Organizational Muscle Memory Drives the Most Effective Response appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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US Calls Reported Threats by Pro-Iran Hackers to Release Trump-Tied Material a ‘Smear Campaign’

The United States has warned of continued Iranian cyberattacks following American strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The post US Calls Reported Threats by Pro-Iran Hackers to Release Trump-Tied Material a ‘Smear Campaign’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 41 Deals Announced in June 2025

Forty-one cybersecurity merger and acquisition (M&A) deals were announced in June 2025. The post Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 41 Deals Announced in June 2025 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Kelly Benefits Data Breach Impacts 550,000 People

As Kelly Benefits’s investigation into a recent data breach progressed, the number of impacted individuals continued to grow.  The post Kelly Benefits Data Breach Impacts 550,000 People appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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That Network Traffic Looks Legit, But it Could be Hiding a Serious Threat

With nearly 80% of cyber threats now mimicking legitimate user behavior, how are top SOCs determining what’s legitimate traffic and what is potentially dangerous? Where do you turn when firewalls and endpoint detection and response (EDR) fall short at detecting the most important threats to your organization? Breaches at edge devices and VPN gateways have risen from 3% to 22%, according to

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Iranian Cyber Actors May Target “Entities of Interest” in US, Warns CISA

CISA warns that Iranian cyber actors may target critical infrastructure in the United States. 

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Hackers Using PDFs to Impersonate Microsoft, DocuSign, and More in Callback Phishing Campaigns

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to phishing campaigns that impersonate popular brands and trick targets into calling phone numbers operated by threat actors. "A significant portion of email threats with PDF payloads persuade victims to call adversary-controlled phone numbers, displaying another popular social engineering technique known as Telephone-Oriented Attack Delivery (TOAD

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Forminator WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes 400,000 Websites to Takeover

A vulnerability in the Forminator WordPress plugin allows attackers to delete arbitrary files and take over impacted websites. The post Forminator WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes 400,000 Websites to Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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U.S. Sanctions Russian Bulletproof Hosting Provider for Supporting Cybercriminals Behind Ransomware

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) service provider Aeza Group to assist threat actors in their malicious activities and targeting victims in the country and across the world. The sanctions also extend to its subsidiaries Aeza International Ltd., the U.K. branch of Aeza Group, as well

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CISA Warns of Two Exploited TeleMessage Vulnerabilities 

CISA says two more vulnerabilities in the messaging application TeleMessage TM SGNL have been exploited in the wild. The post CISA Warns of Two Exploited TeleMessage Vulnerabilities  appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Cyberattack Targets International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has detected and contained a sophisticated and targeted cyberattack. The post Cyberattack Targets International Criminal Court appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Qantas Data Breach Impacts Up to 6 Million Customers 

Australian airline Qantas says personal information stolen from systems hosting the service records of 6 million customers. The post Qantas Data Breach Impacts Up to 6 Million Customers  appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Vercel's v0 AI Tool Weaponized by Cybercriminals to Rapidly Create Fake Login Pages at Scale

Unknown threat actors have been observed weaponizing v0, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool from Vercel, to design fake sign-in pages that impersonate their legitimate counterparts. "This observation signals a new evolution in the weaponization of Generative AI by threat actors who have demonstrated an ability to generate a functional phishing site from simple text prompts," Okta

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Critical Vulnerability in Anthropic's MCP Exposes Developer Machines to Remote Exploits

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security vulnerability in artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) Inspector project that could result in remote code execution (RCE) and allow an attacker to gain complete access to the hosts. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-49596, carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10.0. "This is one

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TA829 and UNK_GreenSec Share Tactics and Infrastructure in Ongoing Malware Campaigns

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged the tactical similarities between the threat actors behind the RomCom RAT and a cluster that has been observed delivering a loader dubbed TransferLoader. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint is tracking the activity associated with TransferLoader to a group dubbed UNK_GreenSec and the RomCom RAT actors under the moniker TA829. The latter is also known by the

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Were 16B Passwords Breached? The Claim Is Called Into Question

Research indicated that 16 billion passwords were exposed in what was reportedly the world’s largest data breach to date — however, some experts are questioning these claims.

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PowerSchool Education Technology Company Announces Data Breach

PowerSchool, a California-based education technology company, recently announced a data breach that occurred between December 19 and December 28, 2024.