Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Arch Linux Project Responding to Week-Long DDoS Attack

The Arch Linux Project has been targeted in a DDoS attack that disrupted its website, repository, and forums. The post Arch Linux Project Responding to Week-Long DDoS Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Transparent Tribe Targets Indian Govt With Weaponized Desktop Shortcuts via Phishing

The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Transparent Tribe has been observed targeting both Windows and BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) Linux systems with malicious Desktop shortcut files in attacks targeting Indian Government entities. "Initial access is achieved through spear-phishing emails," CYFIRMA said. "Linux BOSS environments are targeted via weaponized .desktop

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Farmers Insurance Data Breach Impacts Over 1 Million People

Farmers New World Life Insurance and Farmers Group have filed separate data breach notifications with state authorities.  The post Farmers Insurance Data Breach Impacts Over 1 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Agentic AI Browsers Exploited by “PromptFix” Trick Technique

Agentic AI, while performing routine tasks such as shopping online, could be tricked into carrying out certain actions. 

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Malicious Go Module Poses as SSH Brute-Force Tool, Steals Credentials via Telegram Bot

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Go module that presents itself as a brute-force tool for SSH but actually contains functionality to discreetly exfiltrate credentials to its creator. "On the first successful login, the package sends the target IP address, username, and password to a hard-coded Telegram bot controlled by the threat actor," Socket researcher Kirill Boychenko

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GeoServer Exploits, PolarEdge, and Gayfemboy Push Cybercrime Beyond Traditional Botnets

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to multiple campaigns that leverage known security vulnerabilities and expose Redis servers to various malicious activities, including leveraging the compromised devices as IoT botnets, residential proxies, or cryptocurrency mining infrastructure. The first set of attacks entails the exploitation of CVE-2024-36401 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical

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Russia-Sponsored Cyber Attack Campaign Targets Networking Devices, Critical Infrastructure

A Russia-sponsored campaign is targeting end-of-life devices via a seven-year-old vulnerability. 

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Large Interpol Cybercrime Crackdown in Africa Leads to the Arrest of Over 1,200 Suspects

Dubbed Operation Serengeti 2.0, the operation took place between June and August. The post Large Interpol Cybercrime Crackdown in Africa Leads to the Arrest of Over 1,200 Suspects appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Linux Malware Delivered via Malicious RAR Filenames Evades Antivirus Detection

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel attack chain that employs phishing emails to deliver an open-source backdoor called VShell. The "Linux-specific malware infection chain that starts with a spam email with a malicious RAR archive file," Trellix researcher Sagar Bade said in a technical write-up. "The payload isn't hidden inside the file content or a macro, it's encoded directly

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In Other News: McDonald’s Hack, 1,200 Arrested in Africa, DaVita Breach Grows to 2.7M

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: cryptojacker sentenced to prison, ECC.fail Rowhammer attack, and Microsoft limits China’s access to MAPP. The post In Other News: McDonald’s Hack, 1,200 Arrested in Africa, DaVita Breach Grows to 2.7M appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Chinese Silk Typhoon Hackers Exploited Commvault Zero-Day

Silk Typhoon was seen exploiting Citrix NetScaler and Commvault vulnerabilities for initial access to victim systems. The post Chinese Silk Typhoon Hackers Exploited Commvault Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Pharmaceutical Firm Hit With Ransomware Attack

Inotiv, a pharmaceutical firm, was hit with a ransomware attack.

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Chinese Hackers Murky, Genesis, and Glacial Panda Escalate Cloud and Telecom Espionage

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to malicious activity orchestrated by a China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Murky Panda that involves abusing trusted relationships in the cloud to breach enterprise networks. "The adversary has also shown considerable ability to quickly weaponize N-day and zero-day vulnerabilities and frequently achieves initial access to their targets by

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INTERPOL Arrests 1,209 Cybercriminals Across 18 African Nations in Global Crackdown

INTERPOL on Friday announced that authorities from 18 countries across Africa have arrested 1,209 cybercriminals who targeted 88,000 victims. "The crackdown recovered $97.4 million and dismantled 11,432 malicious infrastructures, underscoring the global reach of cybercrime and the urgent need for cross-border cooperation," the agency said. The effort is the second phase of an ongoing law

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Developer Who Hacked Former Employer’s Systems Sentenced to Prison

Davis Lu was sentenced to four years in prison for installing malicious code on employer’s systems and for deleting encrypted data. The post Developer Who Hacked Former Employer’s Systems Sentenced to Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Automation Is Redefining Pentest Delivery

Pentesting remains one of the most effective ways to identify real-world security weaknesses before adversaries do. But as the threat landscape has evolved, the way we deliver pentest results hasn't kept pace. Most organizations still rely on traditional reporting methods—static PDFs, emailed documents, and spreadsheet-based tracking. The problem? These outdated workflows introduce delays,

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CPAP Medical Data Breach Impacts 90,000 People

CPAP Medical Supplies and Services has disclosed a data breach resulting from an intrusion that occurred in December 2024. The post CPAP Medical Data Breach Impacts 90,000 People appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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AWS Trusted Advisor Tricked Into Showing Unprotected S3 Buckets as Secure

AWS has addressed a vulnerability that could have been leveraged to bypass Trusted Advisor’s S3 bucket permissions check. The post AWS Trusted Advisor Tricked Into Showing Unprotected S3 Buckets as Secure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Hundreds Targeted in New Atomic macOS Stealer Campaign

Between June and August, over 300 entities were targeted with the Atomic macOS Stealer via malvertising. The post Hundreds Targeted in New Atomic macOS Stealer Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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MITRE Updates List of Most Common Hardware Weaknesses

MITRE has updated the list of Most Important Hardware Weaknesses to align it with evolving hardware security challenges. The post MITRE Updates List of Most Common Hardware Weaknesses appeared first on SecurityWeek.