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North Korean hackers are using a post-quantum cryptographic mechanism to secure malicious payload delivery in new operations that combine old and new malware. The campaign targets South Korean organizations through a “rather complex” infection chain. Researchers at cybersecurity company...

Hackers reportedly compromised AOMEI's servers to distribute malware through a built-in promotional feature in its backup software, briefly tampering with configuration files before restoring them to their original state to hide the attacks. The supply chain attacks took place between April and...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that attackers are actively exploiting four vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server. The security issues are collectively called Plex2Shell. When chained in an exploit, an attacker can obtain the owner's admin token and...

Cyber criminals have already figured out a way to hack the new chip-and-PIN credit card system currently being introduced at businesses throughout the United States. Five French citizens have been convicted of manipulating vulnerabilities in the system with a card-switching technique that...

China-linked cyber-espionage actors tracked as 'Bronze Butler' (Tick) exploited a Motex Lanscope Endpoint Manager vulnerability as a zero-day to deploy an updated version of their Gokcpdoor malware.The discovery of this activity comes from Sophos researchers, who observed the threat actors...

A ransomware gang claims it has stolen nearly a terabyte of McDonald’s data in India and is counting down to a public leak. The notorious Russia-linked ransomware gang that last year froze European airports has expanded its list of victims. A notice posted on the dark web on January 20th...

Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) says that Russian hackers are exploiting CVE-2026-21509, a recently patched vulnerability in multiple versions of Microsoft Office. On January 26, Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band security update marking CVE-2026-21509 as an actively...

American data analytics company LexisNexis Legal & Professional has confirmed to BleepingComputer that hackers breached its servers and accessed some customer and business information. The company's data breach confirmation comes as a threat actor named FulcrumSec leaked 2GB of files on various...

A virtual private network service called 'First VPN,' used in ransomware and data theft attacks, has been taken offline in a joint international law enforcement operation. Authorities have seized dozens of First VPN servers located in 27 countries, arrested the administrator, and conducted a...

Threat actors are abusing FTP banners to hide commands that deliver two previously undocumented remote access trojans named E4del and PINHOLE. MalwareHunterTeam observed this unusual technique in July in an attack that used shortcut files (.LNK) and FTP server banners as dead-drop resolvers...

Phishing actors are abusing the legitimate Faronics Deploy endpoint-management platform to gain remote administrative control over victim computers and install the ScreenConnect remote support software. In activity observed between July 21 and August 20, Faronics-themed lures reached more than...

Cybercriminals promise to have an accident at the factory if their requirements are not met. Attackers have launched a large-scale hacker campaign aimed at Israeli chemical organizations that operate in the occupied territories of Palestine. A group called Electronic Quds Force threatens...

Cybercriminals promise to have an accident at the factory if their requirements are not met. Attackers have launched a large-scale hacker campaign aimed at Israeli chemical organizations that operate in the occupied territories of Palestine. A group called Electronic Quds Force threatens...

How Criminals Cash In on Stolen Credit Card Data Alright, so you’ve probably heard about hackers nabbing credit card numbers by the millions and thought, “What do they even do with all that info?” Well, here’s the ugly truth: there’s this whole shadowy bazaar—think eBay for crooks—where stolen...

The extortionists valued the privacy of the victims at $300,000, but will the company accept such conditions? The hacker group ShinyHunters recently claimed to have accessed the data of more than a million Pizza Hut customers in Australia. According to the attackers, they used vulnerabilities...

PC players of GTA Online are cautioned of another remote assault wherein programmers can alter their personality, erase details, and boycott or erase the record. As per GTA people group part and web designer Speyedr, a brief fix is accessible through a custom firewall, however playing in a...

Malefactors could carry out practically any operations with devices. Cybercriminals have gained access to dashboards used to remotely control thousands of Wiseasy credit card terminals, according to Tech Crunch. Wiseasy is a popular manufacturer of Android-based payment terminals used in...

The data leak occurred after a cyber attack on the Swiss company SITA, which is engaged in booking tickets and providing telecommunications services. There was a leak of personal data of Air India passengers for 10 years, passport and contact information of passengers got on the Web. This...

Gift certificates belong to Airbnb, Amazon, American Airlines, Chipotle, Marriott, Nike, Subway, Target, Walmart, etc. 895 thousand gift certificates with a total value of $ 38 million were put up for sale on one of the largest cybercriminal forums. The database contains certificates from...

Modifications of the popular game Cyberpunk 2077 allow hackers to gain access to the user's personal computer through additional files . CD Projekt RED has released an update to the gaming product, where it corrected past shortcomings. However, a new problem was discovered - through the...