Author: VanshTheHacker

  • U.S. Treasury Sanctions DPRK IT-Worker Scheme, Exposing $600K Crypto Transfers and $1M+ Profits

    U.S. Treasury Sanctions DPRK IT-Worker Scheme, Exposing $600K Crypto Transfers and $1M+ Profits

    The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a fresh round of sanctions against two individuals and two entities for their role in the North Korean remote information technology (IT) worker scheme to generate illicit revenue for the regime’s weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs.
    “The North Korean regime continues to target American

  • Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors

    Anthropic Disrupts AI-Powered Cyberattacks Automating Theft and Extortion Across Critical Sectors

    Anthropic on Wednesday revealed that it disrupted a sophisticated operation that weaponized its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot Claude to conduct large-scale theft and extortion of personal data in July 2025.
    “The actor targeted at least 17 distinct organizations, including in healthcare, the emergency services, and government, and religious institutions,” the company said. “

  • ShadowSilk Hits 35 Organizations in Central Asia and APAC Using Telegram Bots

    ShadowSilk Hits 35 Organizations in Central Asia and APAC Using Telegram Bots

    A threat activity cluster known as ShadowSilk has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government entities within Central Asia and Asia-Pacific (APAC).
    According to Group-IB, nearly three dozen victims have been identified, with the intrusions mainly geared towards data exfiltration. The hacking group shares toolset and infrastructural overlaps with campaigns undertaken by threat

  • The 5 Golden Rules of Safe AI Adoption

    The 5 Golden Rules of Safe AI Adoption

    Employees are experimenting with AI at record speed. They are drafting emails, analyzing data, and transforming the workplace. The problem is not the pace of AI adoption, but the lack of control and safeguards in place.
    For CISOs and security leaders like you, the challenge is clear: you don’t want to slow AI adoption down, but you must make it safe. A policy sent company-wide will not cut it.

  • Salesloft OAuth Breach via Drift AI Chat Agent Exposes Salesforce Customer Data

    Salesloft OAuth Breach via Drift AI Chat Agent Exposes Salesforce Customer Data

    A widespread data theft campaign has allowed hackers to breach sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens associated with the Drift artificial intelligence (AI) chat agent.
    The activity, assessed to be opportunistic in nature, has been attributed to a threat actor tracked by Google Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant, tracked as UNC6395.
    “Beginning as early as

  • Blind Eagle’s Five Clusters Target Colombia Using RATs, Phishing Lures, and Dynamic DNS Infra

    Blind Eagle’s Five Clusters Target Colombia Using RATs, Phishing Lures, and Dynamic DNS Infra

    Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five distinct activity clusters linked to a persistent threat actor known as Blind Eagle between May 2024 and July 2025.
    These attacks, observed by Recorded Future Insikt Group, targeted various victims, but primarily within the Colombian government across local, municipal, and federal levels. The threat intelligence firm is tracking the activity under

  • MixShell Malware Delivered via Contact Forms Targets U.S. Supply Chain Manufacturers

    MixShell Malware Delivered via Contact Forms Targets U.S. Supply Chain Manufacturers

    Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a sophisticated social engineering campaign that’s targeting supply chain-critical manufacturing companies with an in-memory malware dubbed MixShell.
    The activity has been codenamed ZipLine by Check Point Research.
    “Instead of sending unsolicited phishing emails, attackers initiate contact through a company’s public ‘Contact Us’ form, tricking

  • ShadowCaptcha Exploits WordPress Sites to Spread Ransomware, Info Stealers, and Crypto Miners

    ShadowCaptcha Exploits WordPress Sites to Spread Ransomware, Info Stealers, and Crypto Miners

    A new large-scale campaign has been observed exploiting over 100 compromised WordPress sites to direct site visitors to fake CAPTCHA verification pages that employ the ClickFix social engineering tactic to deliver information stealers, ransomware, and cryptocurrency miners.
    The large-scale cybercrime campaign, first detected in August 2025, has been codenamed ShadowCaptcha by the Israel National

  • HOOK Android Trojan Adds Ransomware Overlays, Expands to 107 Remote Commands

    HOOK Android Trojan Adds Ransomware Overlays, Expands to 107 Remote Commands

    Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of an Android banking trojan called HOOK that features ransomware-style overlay screens to display extortion messages.
    “A prominent characteristic of the latest variant is its capacity to deploy a full-screen ransomware overlay, which aims to coerce the victim into remitting a ransom payment,” Zimperium zLabs researcher Vishnu Pratapagiri

  • Google to Verify All Android Developers in 4 Countries to Block Malicious Apps

    Google to Verify All Android Developers in 4 Countries to Block Malicious Apps

    Google has announced plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even for those who distribute their software outside the Play Store.
    “Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified Android devices,” the company said. “This creates crucial accountability, making it much harder for