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 …
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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 ( …
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Amazon Exposes Years-Long GRU Cyber Campaign Targeting Energy and Cloud Infrastructure
** Dec 16, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Cloud Security / Vulnerability Amazon’s threat intelligence team has disclosed details of a “years-long” Russian state-sponsored campaign that …
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9740, (Tue, Dec 16th)
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, December 16th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9740
The security vulnerability known as React2Shell is being exploited by threat actors to deliver malware families like KSwapDoor and ZnDoor, according to findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and NTT …
** Dec 16, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Dark Web / Online Safety Google has announced that it’s discontinuing its dark web report tool in February 2026, less than two years after it was launched as …
** Dec 16, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Network Security / Vulnerability Threat actors have begun to exploit two newly disclosed security flaws in Fortinet FortiGate devices, less than a week after public …
AI-assisted coding and AI app generation platforms have created an unprecedented surge in software development. Companies are now facing rapid growth in both the number of applications and the pace of …
Exploits for React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182) remain active. However, at this point, I would think that any servers vulnerable to the “plain” exploit attempts have already been exploited …
** Dec 15, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Software Security Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform FreePBX, including …
In early December 2025, security researchers exposed a cybercrime campaign that had quietly hijacked popular Chrome and Edge browser extensions on a massive scale. A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda …
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, December 15th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9738, (Mon, Dec 15th)
ISC Stormcast For Monday, December 15th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9738
A Google Chrome extension with a “Featured” badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered …
** Dec 15, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Ransomware / Cybercrime The pro-Russian hacktivist group known as CyberVolk (aka GLORIAMIST) has resurfaced with a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering …
Against the Federal Moratorium on State-Level Regulation of AI Cast your mind back to May of this year: Congress was in the throes of debate over the massive budget bill . Amidst the many seismic …
Wireshark 4.6.2 Released Published 2025-12-14. Last Updated 2025-12-14 16:07:32 UTC by Didier Stevens (Version: 1) 0 comment(s) Wireshark release 4.6.2 fixes 2 vulnerabilities and 5 bugs. The Windows …
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active phishing campaign that’s targeting a wide range of sectors in Russia with phishing emails that deliver Phantom Stealer via malicious …
Introduction Since as early as November 2025, the finger protocol has been used in ClickFix social engineering attacks. BleepingComputer posted a report of this activity on November 15th , and Didier …
** Dec 13, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Network Security / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity flaw impacting Sierra Wireless …
** Dec 13, 2025 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Zero-Day / Vulnerability Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two …