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  • 5 Ways Identity-based Attacks Are Breaching Retail

    5 Ways Identity-based Attacks Are Breaching Retail

    From overprivileged admin roles to long-forgotten vendor tokens, these attackers are slipping through the cracks of trust and access. Here’s how five retail breaches unfolded, and what they reveal about…
    In recent months, major retailers like Adidas, The North Face, Dior, Victoria’s Secret, Cartier, Marks & Spencer, and Co‑op have all been breached. These attacks weren’t sophisticated

  • RondoDox Botnet Exploits Flaws in TBK DVRs and Four-Faith Routers to Launch DDoS Attacks

    RondoDox Botnet Exploits Flaws in TBK DVRs and Four-Faith Routers to Launch DDoS Attacks

    Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a malware campaign that’s targeting security flaws in TBK digital video recorders (DVRs) and Four-Faith routers to rope the devices into a new botnet called RondoDox.
    The vulnerabilities in question include CVE-2024-3721, a medium-severity command injection vulnerability affecting TBK DVR-4104 and DVR-4216 DVRs, and CVE-2024-12856, an operating

  • BaitTrap: Over 17,000 Fake News Websites Caught Fueling Investment Fraud Globally

    BaitTrap: Over 17,000 Fake News Websites Caught Fueling Investment Fraud Globally

    A newly released report by cybersecurity firm CTM360 reveals a large-scale scam operation utilizing fake news websites—known as Baiting News Sites (BNS)—to deceive users into online investment fraud across 50 countries.
    These BNS pages are made to look like real news outlets: CNN, BBC, CNBC, or regional media. They publish fake stories that feature public figures, central banks, or financial

  • Researchers Uncover Batavia Windows Spyware Stealing Documents from Russian Firms

    Researchers Uncover Batavia Windows Spyware Stealing Documents from Russian Firms

    Russian organizations have been targeted as part of an ongoing campaign that delivers a previously undocumented Windows spyware called Batavia.
    The activity, per cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, has been active since July 2024.
    “The targeted attack begins with bait emails containing malicious links, sent under the pretext of signing a contract,” the Russian company said. “The main goal of the

  • ⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, Ivanti Exploits, MacOS Stealers, Crypto Heists and More

    ⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, Ivanti Exploits, MacOS Stealers, Crypto Heists and More

    Everything feels secure—until one small thing slips through. Even strong systems can break if a simple check is missed or a trusted tool is misused. Most threats don’t start with alarms—they sneak in through the little things we overlook. A tiny bug, a reused password, a quiet connection—that’s all it takes.
    Staying safe isn’t just about reacting fast. It’s about catching these early signs

  • Manufacturing Security: Why Default Passwords Must Go

    Manufacturing Security: Why Default Passwords Must Go

    If you didn’t hear about Iranian hackers breaching US water facilities, it’s because they only managed to control a single pressure station serving 7,000 people. What made this attack noteworthy wasn’t its scale, but how easily the hackers gained access — by simply using the manufacturer’s default password “1111.” This narrow escape prompted CISA to urge manufacturers to

  • TAG-140 Deploys DRAT V2 RAT, Targeting Indian Government, Defense, and Rail Sectors

    TAG-140 Deploys DRAT V2 RAT, Targeting Indian Government, Defense, and Rail Sectors

    A hacking group with ties other than Pakistan has been found targeting Indian government organizations with a modified variant of a remote access trojan (RAT) called DRAT.
    The activity has been attributed by Recorded Future’s Insikt Group to a threat actor tracked as TAG-140, which it said overlaps with SideCopy, an adversarial collective assessed to be an operational sub-cluster within

  • Taiwan NSB Alerts Public on Data Risks from TikTok, Weibo, and RedNote Over China Ties

    Taiwan NSB Alerts Public on Data Risks from TikTok, Weibo, and RedNote Over China Ties

    Taiwan’s National Security Bureau (NSB) has warned that China-developed applications like RedNote (aka Xiaohongshu), Weibo, TikTok, WeChat, and Baidu Cloud pose security risks due to excessive data collection and data transfer to China.
    The alert comes following an inspection of these apps carried out in coordination with the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) and the Criminal

  • Alert: Exposed JDWP Interfaces Lead to Crypto Mining, Hpingbot Targets SSH for DDoS

    Alert: Exposed JDWP Interfaces Lead to Crypto Mining, Hpingbot Targets SSH for DDoS

    Threat actors are weaponizing exposed Java Debug Wire Protocol (JDWP) interfaces to obtain code execution capabilities and deploy cryptocurrency miners on compromised hosts.
    “The attacker used a modified version of XMRig with a hard-“coded configuration, allowing them to avoid suspicious command-line arguments that are often flagged by defenders,” Wiz researchers Yaara Shriki and Gili

  • NightEagle APT Exploits Microsoft Exchange Flaw to Target China’s Military and Tech Sectors

    NightEagle APT Exploits Microsoft Exchange Flaw to Target China’s Military and Tech Sectors

    Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented threat actor called NightEagle (aka APT-Q-95) that has been observed targeting Microsoft Exchange servers as a part of a zero-day exploit chain designed to target government, defense, and technology sectors in China.
    According to QiAnXin’s RedDrip Team, the threat actor has been active since 2023 and has switched network