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ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions
The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malw...
Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets
Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor t...
Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance
Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer’s machine. Anthropic’s new Complia...
China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs
A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Te...
DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out...
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TerminalFix Uses Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to Deploy Reverse-Tunnel Backdoor
Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix, that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal ...
Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE
Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, ...
Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City's State Network
Berlin's state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city's state administrative netw...
Cosmos EVM Flaw Exploited After Cosmos Labs Knew Every Blockchain Running It Was Vulnerable
Cosmos Labs has warned that a critical balance-handling flaw in the shared Cosmos EVM module was exploited to drain funds from six blockchains between August...
Attackers Chain Two PaperCut Flaws to Execute Code Without Authentication
Malicious actors are exploiting a newly patched security flaw in PaperCut NG and MF to execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances, as the company releas...
Android 17 Adds OS-Wide ECH to Hide Website Visits From Network Providers
Google on Thursday announced new network security protections in Android 17 to bolster connection privacy, address cellular vulnerabilities, and safeguard th...
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