Author: VanshTheHacker

  • First Malicious MCP Server Found Stealing Emails in Rogue Postmark-MCP Package

    First Malicious MCP Server Found Stealing Emails in Rogue Postmark-MCP Package

    Cybersecurity researchers have discovered what has been described as the first-ever instance of a malicious Model Context Protocol (MCP) server spotted in the wild, raising software supply chain risks.
    According to Koi Security, a legitimate-looking developer managed to slip in rogue code within an npm package called “postmark-mcp” that copied an official Postmark Labs library of the same name.

  • China-Linked PlugX and Bookworm Malware Attacks Target Asian Telecom and ASEAN Networks

    China-Linked PlugX and Bookworm Malware Attacks Target Asian Telecom and ASEAN Networks

    Telecommunications and manufacturing sectors in Central and South Asian countries have emerged as the target of an ongoing campaign distributing a new variant of a known malware called PlugX (aka Korplug or SOGU).
    “The new variant’s features overlap with both the RainyDay and Turian backdoors, including abuse of the same legitimate applications for DLL side-loading, the

  • Researchers Expose Phishing Threats Distributing CountLoader and PureRAT

    Researchers Expose Phishing Threats Distributing CountLoader and PureRAT

    A new campaign has been observed impersonating Ukrainian government agencies in phishing attacks to deliver CountLoader, which is then used to drop Amatera Stealer and PureMiner.
    “The phishing emails contain malicious Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files designed to trick recipients into opening harmful attachments,” Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Yurren Wan said in a report shared with The

  • New COLDRIVER Malware Campaign Joins BO Team and Bearlyfy in Russia-Focused Cyberattacks

    New COLDRIVER Malware Campaign Joins BO Team and Bearlyfy in Russia-Focused Cyberattacks

    The Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as COLDRIVER has been attributed to a fresh round of ClickFix-style attacks designed to deliver two new “lightweight” malware families tracked as BAITSWITCH and SIMPLEFIX.
    Zscaler ThreatLabz, which detected the new multi-stage ClickFix campaign earlier this month, described BAITSWITCH as a downloader that ultimately drops SIMPLEFIX, a

  • Crash Tests for Security: Why BAS Is Proof of Defense, Not Assumptions

    Crash Tests for Security: Why BAS Is Proof of Defense, Not Assumptions

    Car makers don’t trust blueprints. They smash prototypes into walls. Again and again. In controlled conditions.
    Because design specs don’t prove survival. Crash tests do. They separate theory from reality. Cybersecurity is no different. Dashboards overflow with “critical” exposure alerts. Compliance reports tick every box. 
    But none of that proves what matters most to a CISO:

    The

  • Fortra GoAnywhere CVSS 10 Flaw Exploited as 0-Day a Week Before Public Disclosure

    Fortra GoAnywhere CVSS 10 Flaw Exploited as 0-Day a Week Before Public Disclosure

    Cybersecurity company watchTowr Labs has disclosed that it has “credible evidence” of active exploitation of the recently disclosed security flaw in Fortra GoAnywhere Managed File Transfer (MFT) software as early as September 10, 2025, a whole week before it was publicly disclosed.
    “This is not ‘just’ a CVSS 10.0 flaw in a solution long favored by APT groups and ransomware operators – it is a

  • New macOS XCSSET Variant Targets Firefox with Clipper and Persistence Module

    New macOS XCSSET Variant Targets Firefox with Clipper and Persistence Module

    Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of a known Apple macOS malware called XCSSET that has been observed in limited attacks.
    “This new variant of XCSSET brings key changes related to browser targeting, clipboard hijacking, and persistence mechanisms,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a Thursday report.
    “It employs sophisticated encryption and obfuscation

  • Cisco ASA Firewall Zero-Day Exploits Deploy RayInitiator and LINE VIPER Malware

    Cisco ASA Firewall Zero-Day Exploits Deploy RayInitiator and LINE VIPER Malware

    The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has revealed that threat actors have exploited the recently disclosed security flaws impacting Cisco firewalls as part of zero-day attacks to deliver previously undocumented malware families like RayInitiator and LINE VIPER.
    “The RayInitiator and LINE VIPER malware represent a significant evolution on that used in the previous campaign, both in

  • Salesforce Patches Critical ForcedLeak Bug Exposing CRM Data via AI Prompt Injection

    Salesforce Patches Critical ForcedLeak Bug Exposing CRM Data via AI Prompt Injection

    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical flaw impacting Salesforce Agentforce, a platform for building artificial intelligence (AI) agents, that could allow attackers to potentially exfiltrate sensitive data from its customer relationship management (CRM) tool by means of an indirect prompt injection.
    The vulnerability has been codenamed ForcedLeak (CVSS score: 9.4) by Noma Security,

  • North Korean Hackers Use New AkdoorTea Backdoor to Target Global Crypto Developers

    North Korean Hackers Use New AkdoorTea Backdoor to Target Global Crypto Developers

    The North Korea-linked threat actors associated with the Contagious Interview campaign have been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called AkdoorTea, along with tools like TsunamiKit and Tropidoor.
    Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, which is tracking the activity under the name DeceptiveDevelopment, said the campaign targets software developers across all operating systems, Windows,