Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed seeking job opportunities beyond the information technology (IT) sector, with recent… Read More »North Korean Job Fraud Expands Beyond IT Into Healthcare and Sales
The boring parts caused most of the trouble. A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected traffic and passwords, then… Read More »⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More
Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer’s machine. Anthropic’s new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest… Read More »Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance
Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and… Read More »Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets
The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip… Read More »ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions
A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) servers,… Read More »China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead… Read More »DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims
Microsoft has disclosed details of a new ClickFix variant, dubbed TerminalFix, that aims to trick users into running a malicious command in Windows Terminal or PowerShell. “While traditional ClickFix campaigns… Read More »TerminalFix Uses Fake Cloudflare CAPTCHAs to Deploy Reverse-Tunnel Backdoor
Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and… Read More »Five Critical WordPress Plugin and Theme Flaws Enable Site Takeover or RCE
Berlin’s state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city’s state administrative network, and said it will not meet… Read More »Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City’s State Network