Category: Cyber News


  • DPRK Hackers Use ClickFix to Deliver BeaverTail Malware in Crypto Job Scams

    Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed leveraging ClickFix-style lures to deliver a known malware called BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret. “The threat actor used ClickFix lures to target marketing and trader roles in cryptocurrency and retail sector organizations rather than targeting software development roles,”…

  • LastPass Warns of Fake Repositories Infecting macOS with Atomic Infostealer

    LastPass is warning of an ongoing, widespread information stealer campaign targeting Apple macOS users through fake GitHub repositories that distribute malware-laced programs masquerading as legitimate tools. “In the case of LastPass, the fraudulent repositories redirected potential victims to a repository that downloads the Atomic infostealer malware,” researchers Alex Cox, Mike Kosak, and ​ ​ ​Read…

  • Researchers Uncover GPT-4-Powered MalTerminal Malware Creating Ransomware, Reverse Shell

    Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what they say is the earliest example known to date of a malware with that bakes in Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities. The malware has been codenamed MalTerminal by SentinelOne SentinelLABS research team. The findings were presented at the LABScon 2025 security conference. In a report examining the malicious use of…

  • ShadowLeak Zero-Click Flaw Leaks Gmail Data via OpenAI ChatGPT Deep Research Agent

    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a zero-click flaw in OpenAI ChatGPT’s Deep Research agent that could allow an attacker to leak sensitive Gmail inbox data with a single crafted email without any user action. The new class of attack has been codenamed ShadowLeak by Radware. Following responsible disclosure on June 18, 2025, the issue was addressed…

  • Patch Now: Max-Severity Fortra GoAnywhere Bug Allows Command Injection

    Exploitation of the flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-10035, is highly dependent on whether systems are exposed to the Internet, according to Fortra. ​ ​ ​Read More

  • Capture the Flag Competition Leads to Cybersecurity Career

    As Splunk celebrates the 10th anniversary of Boss of the SOC competition, it continues to be a valuable platform for security professionals to test their skills, learn new techniques, and potentially advance their careers in cybersecurity. ​ ​ ​Read More

  • How To Automate Alert Triage With AI Agents and Confluence SOPs Using Tines

    Run by the team at workflow orchestration and AI platform Tines, the Tines library features over 1,000 pre-built workflows shared by security practitioners from across the community – all free to import and deploy through the platform’s Community Edition. The workflow we are highlighting streamlines security alert handling by automatically identifying and executing the appropriate…

  • Threat landscape for industrial automation systems in Q2 2025

    Statistics across all threats In Q2 2025, the percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked decreased by 1.4 pp from the previous quarter to 20.5%. Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked, Q2 2022–Q2 2025 Compared to Q2 2024, the rate decreased by 3.0 pp. Regionally, the percentage of…

  • Russian Hackers Gamaredon and Turla Collaborate to Deploy Kazuar Backdoor in Ukraine

    Cybersecurity researchers have discerned evidence of two Russian hacking groups Gamaredon and Turla collaborating together to target and co-comprise Ukrainian entities. Slovak cybersecurity company ESET said it observed the Gamaredon tools PteroGraphin and PteroOdd being used to execute Turla group’s Kazuar backdoor on an endpoint in Ukraine in February 2025, indicating that Turla is very…

  • U.K. Arrests Two Teen Scattered Spider Hackers Linked to August 2024 TfL Cyber Attack

    Law enforcement authorities in the U.K. have arrested two teen members of the Scattered Spider hacking group in connection with their alleged participation in an August 2024 cyber attack targeting Transport for London (TfL), the city’s public transportation agency. Thalha Jubair (aka EarthtoStar, Brad, Austin, and @autistic), 19, from East London and Owen Flowers, 18,…