May 2025 – Page 3 – Learn and Explore

May 28, 2025
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How ‘Browser-in-the-Middle’ Attacks Steal Sessions in Seconds

Would you expect an end user to log on to a cybercriminal’s computer, open their browser, and type in their usernames and passwords? Hopefully not! But that’s essentially what happens if they fall victim to a Browser-in-the-Middle (BitM) attack. Like Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks, BiTM sees criminals look to control...

May 28, 2025
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Apple Blocks $9 Billion in Fraud Over 5 Years Amid Rising App Store Threats

Apple on Tuesday revealed that it prevented over $9 billion in fraudulent transactions in the last five years, including more than $2 billion in 2024 alone. The company said the App Store is confronted by a wide range of threats that seek to defraud users in various ways, ranging...

May 27, 2025
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Cybercriminals Clone Antivirus Site to Spread Venom RAT and Steal Crypto Wallets

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new malicious campaign that uses a fake website advertising antivirus software from Bitdefender to dupe victims into downloading a remote access trojan called Venom RAT. The campaign indicates a “clear intent to target individuals for financial gain by compromising their credentials, crypto wallets, and...

May 27, 2025
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New Self-Spreading Malware Infects Docker Containers to Mine Dero Cryptocurrency

Misconfigured Docker API instances have become the target of a new malware campaign that transforms them into a cryptocurrency mining botnet. The attacks, designed to mine for Dero currency, is notable for its worm-like capabilities to propagate the malware to other exposed Docker instances and rope them into an...

May 27, 2025
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AI Agents and the Non‑Human Identity Crisis: How to Deploy AI More Securely at Scale

Artificial intelligence is driving a massive shift in enterprise productivity, from GitHub Copilot’s code completions to chatbots that mine internal knowledge bases for instant answers. Each new agent must authenticate to other services, quietly swelling the population of non‑human identities (NHIs) across corporate clouds. That population is already overwhelming the...

May 27, 2025
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Russian Hackers Breach 20+ NGOs Using Evilginx Phishing via Fake Microsoft Entra Pages

Microsoft has shed light on a previously undocumented cluster of threat activity originating from a Russia-affiliated threat actor dubbed Void Blizzard (aka Laundry Bear) that it said is attributed to “worldwide cloud abuse.” Active since at least April 2024, the hacking group is linked to espionage operations mainly targeting...

May 27, 2025
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Employees Searching Payroll Portals on Google Tricked Into Sending Paychecks to Hackers

Threat hunters have exposed a novel campaign that makes use of search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning techniques to target employee mobile devices and facilitate payroll fraud. The activity, first detected by ReliaQuest in May 2025 targeting an unnamed customer in the manufacturing sector, is characterized by the use of...

May 27, 2025
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Hackers Are Calling Your Office: FBI Alerts Law Firms to Luna Moth’s Stealth Phishing Campaign

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of social engineering attacks mounted by a criminal extortion actor known as Luna Moth targeting law firms over the past two years. The campaign leverages “information technology (IT) themed social engineering calls, and callback phishing emails, to gain remote access...

May 27, 2025
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Russia-Linked Hackers Target Tajikistan Government with Weaponized Word Documents

The Russia-aligned threat actor known as TAG-110 has been observed conducting a spear-phishing campaign targeting Tajikistan using macro-enabled Word templates as an initial payload. The attack chain is a departure from the threat actor’s previously documented use of an HTML Application (.HTA) loader dubbed HATVIBE, Recorded Future’s Insikt Group...

May 26, 2025
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Over 70 Malicious npm and VS Code Packages Found Stealing Data and Crypto

As many as 60 malicious npm packages have been discovered in the package registry with malicious functionality to harvest hostnames, IP addresses, DNS servers, and user directories to a Discord-controlled endpoint. The packages, published under three different accounts, come with an install‑time script that’s triggered during npm install, Socket...