Since the end of the year is quickly approaching, it is undoubtedly a good time to look back at what the past twelve months have brought to us… And given that the entire cyber security profession is …
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Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea) have been instrumental in driving a surge in global cryptocurrency theft in 2025, accounting for at …
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Cisco Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting Unpatched 0-Day in AsyncOS Email Security Appliances
** Dec 18, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has alerted users to a maximum-severity zero-day flaw in Cisco AsyncOS software that has been actively exploited by a …
The North Korean threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a new campaign that distributes a new variant of Android malware called DocSwap via QR codes hosted on phishing sites mimicking …
** Dec 18, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Software Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical flaw impacting ASUS Live Update to …
I have already talked about various React2Shell exploit attempts we have observed in the last weeks. But new varieties of the exploit are popping up, and the most recent one is using this particular …
** Dec 17, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Malware The threat actor linked to Operation ForumTroll has been attributed to a fresh set of phishing attacks targeting individuals within Russia, …
** Dec 17, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Email Security / Threat Intelligence The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 has been attributed to what has been described as a …
** Dec 17, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Network Security SonicWall has rolled out fixes to address a security flaw in Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances that it said has been …
A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf has enlisted a massive army of no less than 1.8 million infected devices comprising Android-based TVs, set-top boxes, and tablets, …
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9742, (Wed, Dec 17th)
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, December 17th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9742
** Dec 17, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Ad Fraud / Browser Security A new campaign named GhostPoster has leveraged logo files associated with 17 Mozilla Firefox browser add-ons to embed malicious …
Modern security teams often feel like they’re driving through fog with failing headlights. Threats accelerate, alerts multiply, and SOCs struggle to understand which dangers matter right now for …
Deliberate Internet Shutdowns For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet . No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It …
The threat actor known as Jewelbug has been increasingly focusing on government targets in Europe since July 2025, even as it continues to attack entities located in Southeast Asia and South America. …
Posted by Tim Willis, Google Project Zero In 2021, we updated our vulnerability disclosure policy to the current “90+30” model. Our goals were to drive faster yet thorough patch …
Introduction Some time in 2024, during a Project Zero team discussion, we were talking about how remote ASLR leaks would be helpful or necessary for exploiting some types of memory corruption bugs, …
Introduction In early June, I was reviewing a new Linux kernel feature when I learned about the MSG_OOB feature supported by stream-oriented UNIX domain sockets. I reviewed the implementation of …
Introduction Iâve recently been researching Pixel kernel exploitation and as part of this research I found myself with an excellent arbitrary write primitiveâ¦but without a KASLR leak. As necessity …
Introduction Between July 2024 and February 2025, 6 suspicious image files were uploaded to VirusTotal. Thanks to a lead from Meta, these samples came to the attention of Google Threat Intelligence …
This post was originally written in 2016 for the Project Zero blog. However, in the end it was published separately in the journal PoC||GTFO issue #13 as well as in the second volume of the printed …
Direct navigation — the act of visiting a website by manually typing a domain name in a web browser — has never been riskier: A new study finds the vast majority of “parked” domains — mostly expired …
Chinese Surveillance and AI New report: “ The Party’s AI: How China’s New AI Systems are Reshaping Human Rights .” From a summary article : China is already the world’s largest exporter of AI powered …
** Dec 16, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious NuGet package that typosquats and impersonates the popular .NET tracing …
** Dec 16, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Threat Detection An ongoing campaign has been observed targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers using compromised Identity and Access Management ( …