Hardened Containers Look to Eliminate Common Source of Vulnerabilities
A kitchen-sink approach to building containers has loaded many with vulnerabilities. A handful of companies are trying to slim them down to address the issue.
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150,000 Packages Flood NPM Registry in Token Farming Campaign
A self-replicating attack led to a tidal wave of malicious packages in the NPM registry, targeting tokens for the tea.xyz protocol.
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North Korean Hackers Turn JSON Services into Covert Malware Delivery Channels
The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have once again tweaked their tactics by using JSON storage services to stage malicious payloads. “The threat actors have recently resorted to utilizing JSON storage services like JSON Keeper, JSONsilo, and npoint.io to host and deliver malware from trojanized code projects, with the lure,” NVISO…
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Shadow Program Gives AWS Exec New Security Lens
Sara Duffer highlights the top lessons she brought back to her security role following three years in Amazon’s shadow program.
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Identity Governance and Administration, App Proliferation, and the App Integration Chasm
Most enterprises use more than 1,000 apps, according to ESG research, yet about half are integrated with IGA. Industry innovations enable teams to expand app coverage and get more IGA value.
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Researchers Find Serious AI Bugs Exposing Meta, Nvidia, and Microsoft Inference Frameworks
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting major artificial intelligence (AI) inference engines, including those from Meta, Nvidia, Microsoft, and open-source PyTorch projects such as vLLM and SGLang. “These vulnerabilities all traced back to the same root cause: the overlooked unsafe use of ZeroMQ (ZMQ) and Python’s pickle deserialization,”
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Iranian Hackers Launch ‘SpearSpecter’ Spy Operation on Defense & Government Targets
The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT42 has been observed targeting individuals and organizations that are of interest to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as part of a new espionage-focused campaign. The activity, detected in early September 2025 and assessed to be ongoing, has been codenamed SpearSpecter by the Israel National Digital Agency (INDA)….
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Infostealers: The silent doorway to identity attacks — and why proactive defense matters
Credential theft isn’t just an inconvenience. It’s often the first move in a chain reaction that ends in full-scale compromise. Beyond the dreaded password reset process, information stealers, as shown in several recent cyberattacks, can have far more consequential follow-on effects. For many small and mid-sized organizations, a single stolen identity can lead to…
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Ransomware’s Fragmentation Reaches a Breaking Point While LockBit Returns
Key Takeaways: 85 active ransomware and extortion groups observed in Q3 2025, reflecting the most decentralized ransomware ecosystem to date. 1,590 victims disclosed across 85 leak sites, showing high, sustained activity despite law-enforcement pressure. 14 new ransomware brands launched this quarter, proving how quickly affiliates reconstitute after takedowns. LockBit’s reappearance with
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Chinese Hackers Use Anthropic’s AI to Launch Automated Cyber Espionage Campaign
State-sponsored threat actors from China used artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by Anthropic to orchestrate automated cyber attacks as part of a “highly sophisticated espionage campaign” in mid-September 2025. “The attackers used AI’s ‘agentic’ capabilities to an unprecedented degree – using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyber attacks themselves,” the…