ThreatsDay Bulletin: FortiGate RaaS, Citrix Exploits, MCP Abuse, LiveChat Phish & More
ThreatsDay Bulletin is back on The Hacker News, and this week feels off in a familiar way. Nothing loud, nothing breaking everything at once.…
⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Days, Router Botnets, AWS Breach, Rogue AI Agents & More
Some weeks in security feel normal. Then you read a few tabs and get that immediate “ah, great, we’re doing this now”…
APT28 Uses BEARDSHELL and COVENANT Malware to Spy on Ukrainian Military
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group tracked as APT28 has been observed using a pair of implants dubbed BEARDSHELL and COVENANT to…
Transparent Tribe Uses AI to Mass-Produce Malware Implants in Campaign Targeting India
The Pakistan-aligned threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has become the latest hacking group to embrace artificial intelligence…
ThreatsDay Bulletin: DDR5 Bot Scalping, Samsung TV Tracking, Reddit Privacy Fine & More
Some weeks in cybersecurity feel routine. This one doesn’t. Several new developments surfaced over the past few days, showing how…
Dust Specter Targets Iraqi Officials with New SPLITDROP and GHOSTFORM Malware
A suspected Iran-nexus threat actor has been attributed to a campaign targeting government officials in Iraq by impersonating the country's…
APT41-Linked Silver Dragon Targets Governments Using Cobalt Strike and Google Drive C2
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) group dubbed Silver Dragon that has been linked to…
Malicious Go Crypto Module Steals Passwords, Deploys Rekoobe Backdoor
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious Go module that's designed to harvest passwords, create persistent access via…
CISA Adds Two Actively Exploited Roundcube Flaws to KEV Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Roundcube webmail software to…
ThreatsDay Bulletin: OpenSSL RCE, Foxit 0-Days, Copilot Leak, AI Password Flaws & 20+ Stories
The cyber threat space doesn’t pause, and this week makes that clear. New risks, new tactics, and new security gaps are showing up…
Google Links China, Iran, Russia, North Korea to Coordinated Defense Sector Cyber Operations
Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained their sights…
Google Reports State-Backed Hackers Using Gemini AI for Recon and Attack Support
Google on Thursday said it observed the North Korea-linked threat actor known as UNC2970 using its generative artificial intelligence (AI)…
ThreatsDay Bulletin: Codespaces RCE, AsyncRAT C2, BYOVD Abuse, AI Cloud Intrusions & 15+ Stories
This week didn’t produce one big headline. It produced many small signals — the kind that quietly shape what attacks will look…
China-Linked Amaranth-Dragon Exploits WinRAR Flaw in Espionage Campaigns
Threat actors affiliated with China have been attributed to a fresh set of cyber espionage campaigns targeting government and law enforcement…
APT28 Uses Microsoft Office CVE-2026-21509 in Espionage-Focused Malware Attacks
The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 (aka UAC-0001) has been attributed to attacks exploiting a newly disclosed…
Notepad++ Official Update Mechanism Hijacked to Deliver Malware to Select Users
The maintainer of Notepad++ has revealed that state-sponsored attackers hijacked the utility's update mechanism to redirect update traffic to…
Google Disrupts IPIDEA — One of the World’s Largest Residential Proxy Networks
Google on Wednesday announced that it worked together with other partners to disrupt IPIDEA, which it described as one of the largest…
Russian ELECTRUM Tied to December 2025 Cyber Attack on Polish Power Grid
The "coordinated" cyber attack targeting multiple sites across the Polish power grid has been attributed with medium confidence to a Russian…
Google Warns of Active Exploitation of WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-8088
Google on Tuesday revealed that multiple threat actors, including nation-state adversaries and financially motivated groups, are exploiting a…
Russia-Linked Hackers Use Microsoft 365 Device Code Phishing for Account Takeovers
A suspected Russia-aligned group has been attributed to a phishing campaign that employs device code authentication workflows to steal…
Cisco Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting Unpatched 0-Day in AsyncOS Email Security Appliances
Cisco has alerted users to a maximum-severity zero-day flaw in Cisco AsyncOS software that has been actively exploited by a China-nexus…
APT28 Targets Ukrainian UKR-net Users in Long-Running Credential Phishing Campaign
The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 has been attributed to what has been described as a "sustained" credential-harvesting…
Amazon Exposes Years-Long GRU Cyber Campaign Targeting Energy and Cloud Infrastructure
Amazon's threat intelligence team has disclosed details of a "years-long" Russian state-sponsored campaign that targeted Western critical…
⚡ Weekly Recap: Apple 0-Days, WinRAR Exploit, LastPass Fines, .NET RCE, OAuth Scams & More
If you use a smartphone, browse the web, or unzip files on your computer, you are in the crosshairs this week. Hackers are currently…
China-Linked APT31 Launches Stealthy Cyberattacks on Russian IT Using Cloud Services
The China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as APT31 has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting the Russian information…
APT24 Deploys BADAUDIO in Years-Long Espionage Hitting Taiwan and 1,000+ Domains
A China-nexus threat actor known as APT24 has been observed using a previously undocumented malware dubbed BADAUDIO to establish persistent…
SEC Drops SolarWinds Case After Years of High-Stakes Cybersecurity Scrutiny
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has abandoned its lawsuit against SolarWinds and its chief information security officer,…
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…
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…
From Log4j to IIS, China’s Hackers Turn Legacy Bugs into Global Espionage Tools
A China-linked threat actor has been attributed to a cyber attack targeting an U.S. non-profit organization with an aim to establish long-term…
Trojanized ESET Installers Drop Kalambur Backdoor in Phishing Attacks on Ukraine
A previously unknown threat activity cluster has been observed impersonating Slovak cybersecurity company ESET as part of phishing attacks…
Weekly Recap: Lazarus Hits Web3, Intel/AMD TEEs Cracked, Dark Web Leak Tool & More
Cyberattacks are getting smarter and harder to stop. This week, hackers used sneaky tools, tricked trusted systems, and quickly took advantage…
Researchers Expose GhostCall and GhostHire: BlueNoroff's New Malware Chains
Threat actors tied to North Korea have been observed targeting the Web3 and blockchain sectors as part of twin campaigns tracked as GhostCall…
APT36 Targets Indian Government with Golang-Based DeskRAT Malware Campaign
A Pakistan-nexus threat actor has been observed targeting Indian government entities as part of spear-phishing attacks designed to deliver a…
Apple Planning $350 Smart Display (2026) and Robotic Desktop Device (2027), Manufactured in Vietnam
According to a report by Bloomberg News, Apple is actively expanding its smart home product line, with plans to launch a smart display…
From Phishing to Malware: AI Becomes Russia's New Cyber Weapon in War on Ukraine
Russian hackers' adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in cyber attacks against Ukraine has reached a new level in the first half of 2025…
Cyber Brief 25-10 – September 2025
Cyber Brief (September 2025)October 1, 2025 - Version: 1TLP:CLEARExecutive summaryWe analysed 285 open source reports for this Cyber Security…
New China-Aligned Hackers Hit State and Telecom Sectors
A newly identified cyber espionage group has been targeting government and telecommunications organizations across Africa, the Middle East and…
Phantom Taurus: New China-Linked Hacker Group Hits Governments With Stealth Malware
Government and telecommunications organizations across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia have emerged as the target of a previously…
Dutch teens arrested for trying to spy on Europol for Russia
Two Dutch teenage boys aged 17, reportedly used hacking devices to spy for Russia, have been arrested by the Politie on Monday.…
UNC5221 Uses BRICKSTORM Backdoor to Infiltrate U.S. Legal and Technology Sectors
Companies in the legal services, software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, Business Process Outsourcers (BPOs), and technology sectors in the…
DPRK Hackers Use ClickFix to Deliver BeaverTail Malware in Crypto Job Scams
Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed leveraging ClickFix-style…