A newly surfaced Ransomware-as-a-Service operation, dubbed GLOBAL GROUP, has begun deploying an AI‐driven negotiation tool that elevates the psychological pressure on victims and streamlines extortion […]
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Octalyn Stealer Harvests VPN Configs, Passwords, and Cookies in Organized Folder Structure
The Octalyn Forensic Toolkit, which is openly accessible on GitHub, has been revealed as a powerful credential stealer that poses as a research tool for […]
Kafbat UI Vulnerabilities Allow Arbitrary Code Execution via JMX Services
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Kafbat UI, a popular web-based interface for managing Apache Kafka clusters, allowing unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary […]
Iranian Threat Actors Target U.S. Critical Infrastructure, Including Water Systems
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has increased its asymmetric cyber operations in response to recent U.S. attacks on Iranian nuclear sites. Intelligence Group 13 […]
New AsyncRAT Forks Discovered Featuring Screamer Tool and USB Malware Spreader
Cybersecurity researchers have identified two sophisticated AsyncRAT variants that expand the remote access trojan’s capabilities with a psychological warfare component and enhanced propagation mechanisms. The […]
BaitTrap Reveals Global Web of 17,000+ Fraud-Promoting Fake News Sites
Cybersecurity firm CTM360 has unveiled an extensive network of over 17,000 Baiting News Sites (BNS), engineered by cybercriminals to disseminate investment fraud on a global […]
North Korean Hackers Exploit 67 Malicious npm Packages to Spread XORIndex Malware
The Socket Threat Research Team has discovered a new software supply chain attack that uses a malware loader called XORIndex that had not been previously […]
How phishers are weaponizing SVG images in zero-click, evasive campaigns
Threat actors are shifting from conventional phishing tricks, which used malicious links and document macros, to benign-looking image files embedded with stealthy browser redirects. According […]
AsyncRAT’s Open-Source Code Sparks Surge in Dangerous Malware Variants Across the Globe
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of a widely used remote access trojan called AsyncRAT, which was first released on GitHub in January 2019 and […]
Securing Agentic AI: How to Protect the Invisible Identity Access
AI agents promise to automate everything from financial reconciliations to incident response. Yet every time an AI agent spins up a workflow, it has to […]