A cybercriminal collective has launched a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) platform known as GLOBAL GROUP, actively targeting organizations across Australia, Brazil, Europe, and the United States since early June 2025. According to EclecticIQ, the operation...
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Government institutions across Southeast Asia have found themselves at the center of a new cyber-espionage campaign aimed at harvesting sensitive information through a previously unknown Windows malware tool known as HazyBeacon. Tracked by Palo...
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AsyncRAT, first introduced on GitHub in January 2019, has evolved into one of the most formidable tools in the cybercriminal arsenal. Its open-source architecture, written in C#, has laid the foundation for a multitude...
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A former U.S. Army servicemember has pleaded guilty to orchestrating an extensive scheme involving the hacking of telecommunications companies, extortion, and the sale of stolen data. Cameron John Wagenius, 21, who last served in...
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Cloudflare recorded a dramatic decline in the number of DDoS attacks during the second quarter of 2025, mitigating 7.3 million incidents—down sharply from the 20.5 million reported in the first quarter. However, despite the...
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Hackers have devised a method to conceal malware in places where detection is nearly impossible—in DNS records that map domain names to IP addresses. This technique enables the delivery of malicious binaries without relying...
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Bolthole A proof-of-concept ClickOnce payload for Red Teams to establish initial access in authorized penetration tests. Overview Bolthole provides operators with: Reverse SSH tunnel into the target environment CMD shell access as the executing...
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The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has unveiled a new program titled the Vulnerability Research Initiative (VRI), aimed at deepening collaboration with independent experts in vulnerability discovery. This initiative seeks to bolster...
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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) of India has announced the dismantling of a transnational cybercriminal syndicate responsible for large-scale tech support scams. The operation, codenamed Chakra V, was carried out on July 7,...
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The Trump administration is planning to allocate $1 billion over the next four years toward offensive operations in cyberspace. These funds will be disbursed through the Department of Defense as part of a sweeping...
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There is no shortage of protective tools today, yet unfortunately, the number of threats continues to outpace them—particularly those that operate subtly and invisibly, penetrating the very core mechanisms of an operating system. Detecting...
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The Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on security and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of international security has concluded its work in New York. After nearly five years of...
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A counterfeit extension for the Cursor AI development environment, masquerading as a legitimate Ethereum utility, has resulted in a major cybersecurity incident—a Russian cryptocurrency developer lost half a million dollars due to the extension’s...
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Over the weekend, an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an agency under Elon Musk’s purview, inadvertently exposed a confidential key that granted direct access to over 50 of xAI’s language models....
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A high-profile incident has recently concluded within the Solana ecosystem, involving the unauthorized extraction of cryptocurrency assets from the Texture project. Several days ago, an unidentified hacker exploited a vulnerability in one of the...
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The Gemini AI assistant, integrated into Google Workspace, has unexpectedly proven vulnerable to a novel form of social engineering. By exploiting a particular method of structuring content within emails, malicious actors can deceive the...
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BinPool is a dataset consisting of vulnerable and patched binaries derived from historical Debian packages, compiled using four different optimization levels. It can be used for vulnerability discovery tasks through various methods, including machine...
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Security researchers from GitGuardian and Synacktiv have uncovered a critical vulnerability in Laravel, the widely used PHP framework that powers hundreds of thousands of web applications. The issue stems from the leakage of the...
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Fortinet has released critical security updates for FortiWeb, addressing a severe vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries remotely. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-25257, received a CVSS score of 9.6, placing...
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NVIDIA has issued a warning about a newly discovered vulnerability in its graphics processing units, dubbed GPUHammer. This attack, rooted in the well-known RowHammer technique, enables malicious actors to corrupt data belonging to other...
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