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Malware Injected into 5 npm Packages After Maintainer Tokens Stolen in Phishing Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have alerted to a supply chain attack that has targeted popular npm packages via a phishing campaign designed to steal the project maintainers’ npm tokens. The captured tokens were then used to publish malicious versions of the packages directly to the registry without any source code commits or pull requests on their respective […]

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Hackers Exploit Critical CrushFTP Flaw to Gain Admin Access on Unpatched Servers

A newly disclosed critical security flaw in CrushFTP has come under active exploitation in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-54309, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.0. “CrushFTP 10 before 10.8.5 and 11 before 11.3.4_23, when the DMZ proxy feature is not used, mishandles AS2 validation and consequently allows remote attackers to obtain

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Critical NVIDIA Container Toolkit Flaw Allows Privilege Escalation on AI Cloud Services

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical container escape vulnerability in the NVIDIA Container Toolkit that could pose a severe threat to managed AI cloud services. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-23266, carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0. It has been codenamed NVIDIAScape by Google-owned cloud security company Wiz. “NVIDIA Container Toolkit for all

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Ivanti Zero-Days Exploited to Drop MDifyLoader and Launch In-Memory Cobalt Strike Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new malware called MDifyLoader that has been observed in conjunction with cyber attacks exploiting security flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances. According to a report published by JPCERT/CC today, the threat actors behind the exploitation of CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-22457 in intrusions observed between December 2024 and July

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UNG0002 Group Hits China, Hong Kong, Pakistan Using LNK Files and RATs in Twin Campaigns

Multiple sectors in China, Hong Kong, and Pakistan have become the target of a threat activity cluster tracked as UNG0002 (aka Unknown Group 0002) as part of a broader cyber espionage campaign. “This threat entity demonstrates a strong preference for using shortcut files (LNK), VBScript, and post-exploitation tools such as Cobalt Strike and Metasploit, while

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China’s Massistant Tool Secretly Extracts SMS, GPS Data, and Images From Confiscated Phones

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a mobile forensics tool called Massistant that’s used by law enforcement authorities in China to gather information from seized mobile devices. The hacking tool, believed to be a successor of MFSocket, is developed by a Chinese company named SDIC Intelligence Xiamen Information Co., Ltd., which was formerly known as

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CERT-UA Discovers LAMEHUG Malware Linked to APT28, Using LLM for Phishing Campaign

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a phishing campaign that’s designed to deliver a malware codenamed LAMEHUG. “An obvious feature of LAMEHUG is the use of LLM (large language model), used to generate commands based on their textual representation (description),” CERT-UA said in a Thursday advisory. The activity has

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Hackers Exploit Apache HTTP Server Flaw to Deploy Linuxsys Cryptocurrency Miner

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new campaign that exploits a known security flaw impacting Apache HTTP Server to deliver a cryptocurrency miner called Linuxsys. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2021-41773 (CVSS score: 7.5), a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Apache HTTP Server version 2.4.49 that could result in remote code execution. “The attacker leverages

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Hackers Use GitHub Repositories to Host Amadey Malware and Data Stealers, Bypassing Filters

Threat actors are leveraging public GitHub repositories to host malicious payloads and distribute them via Amadey as part of a campaign observed in April 2025. “The MaaS [malware-as-a-service] operators used fake GitHub accounts to host payloads, tools, and Amadey plug-ins, likely as an attempt to bypass web filtering and for ease of use,” Cisco Talos

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Chinese Hackers Target Taiwan’s Semiconductor Sector with Cobalt Strike, Custom Backdoors

The Taiwanese semiconductor industry has become the target of spear-phishing campaigns undertaken by three Chinese state-sponsored threat actors. “Targets of these campaigns ranged from organizations involved in the manufacturing, design, and testing of semiconductors and integrated circuits, wider equipment and services supply chain entities within this sector, as well as financial investment

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