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September 3, 2025
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Iranian Hackers Exploit 100+ Embassy Email Accounts in Global Phishing Targeting Diplomats

An Iran-nexus group has been linked to a “coordinated” and “multi-wave” spear-phishing campaign targeting the embassies and consulates in Europe and other regions across the world. The activity has been attributed by Israeli cybersecurity company Dream to Iranian-aligned operators connected to broader offensive cyber activity undertaken by a group...

September 3, 2025
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Cloudflare Blocks Record-Breaking 11.5 Tbps DDoS Attack

Cloudflare on Tuesday said it automatically mitigated a record-setting volumetric distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). “Over the past few weeks, we’ve autonomously blocked hundreds of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, with the largest reaching peaks of 5.1 Bpps and 11.5 Tbps,” the web infrastructure...

September 3, 2025
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CISA Adds TP-Link and WhatsApp Flaws to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a high-severity security flaw impacting TP-Link TL-WA855RE Wi-Fi Ranger Extender products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, CVE-2020-24363 (CVSS score: 8.8), concerns a case of missing authentication that could be...

September 3, 2025
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Salesloft Takes Drift Offline After OAuth Token Theft Hits Hundreds of Organizations

Salesloft on Tuesday announced that it’s taking Drift temporarily offline “in the very near future,” as multiple companies have been ensnared in a far-reaching supply chain attack spree targeting the marketing software-as-a-service product, resulting in the mass theft of authentication tokens. “This will provide the fastest path forward to...

September 2, 2025
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Lazarus Group Expands Malware Arsenal With PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT, and RemotePE

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been attributed to a social engineering campaign that distributes three different pieces of cross-platform malware called PondRAT, ThemeForestRAT, and RemotePE. The attack, observed by NCC Group’s Fox-IT in 2024, targeted an organization in the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector,...

September 2, 2025
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Researchers Warn of MystRodX Backdoor Using DNS and ICMP Triggers for Stealthy Control

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a stealthy new backdoor called MystRodX that comes with a variety of features to capture sensitive data from compromised systems. “MystRodX is a typical backdoor implemented in C++, supporting features like file management, port forwarding, reverse shell, and socket management,” QiAnXin XLab said in a...

September 2, 2025
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Shadow AI Discovery: A Critical Part of Enterprise AI Governance

The Harsh Truths of AI Adoption MITs State of AI in Business report revealed that while 40% of organizations have purchased enterprise LLM subscriptions, over 90% of employees are actively using AI tools in their daily work. Similarly, research from Harmonic Security found that 45.4% of sensitive AI interactions...

September 2, 2025
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Ukrainian Network FDN3 Launches Massive Brute-Force Attacks on SSL VPN and RDP Devices

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a Ukrainian IP network for engaging in massive brute-force and password spraying campaigns targeting SSL VPN and RDP devices between June and July 2025. The activity originated from a Ukraine-based autonomous system FDN3 (AS211736), per French cybersecurity company Intrinsec. “We believe with a high level...

September 2, 2025
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Silver Fox Exploits Microsoft-Signed WatchDog Driver to Deploy ValleyRAT Malware

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been attributed to abuse of a previously unknown vulnerable driver associated with WatchDog Anti-malware as part of a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) attack aimed at disarming security solutions installed on compromised hosts. The vulnerable driver in question is “amsdk.sys”...

September 2, 2025
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Malicious npm Package nodejs-smtp Mimics Nodemailer, Targets Atomic and Exodus Wallets

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that comes with stealthy features to inject malicious code into desktop apps for cryptocurrency wallets like Atomic and Exodus on Windows systems. The package, named nodejs-smtp, impersonates the legitimate email library nodemailer with an identical tagline, page styling, and README descriptions,...