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It’s the best deal going in cybercrime: fully compromised websites belonging to high-value organizations, for just a couple hundred bucks each.
Think your Wi-Fi is safe? Your coding tools? Or even your favorite financial apps? This week proves again how hackers, companies, and governments are all locked in a nonstop race to outsmart each other. Here’s a quick rundown of the latest cyber stories that show how fast the game keeps changing. DeFi exploit drains funds…
As 2025 draws to a close, security professionals face a sobering realization: the traditional playbook for web security has become dangerously obsolete. AI-powered attacks, evolving injection techniques, and supply chain compromises affecting hundreds of thousands of websites forced a fundamental rethink of defensive strategies. Here are the five threats that reshaped web security this year,…
Cybercriminals associated with a financially motivated group known as GoldFactory have been observed staging a fresh round of attacks targeting mobile users in Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam by impersonating government services. The activity, observed since October 2024, involves distributing modified banking applications that act as a conduit for Android malware, Group-IB said in a technical
Iran’s top state-sponsored APT is usually rather crass. But in a recent spate of attacks, it tried out some interesting evasion tactics, including delving into Snake, an old-school mobile game.
Cloudflare on Wednesday said it detected and mitigated the largest ever distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that measured at 29.7 terabits per second (Tbps). The activity, the web infrastructure and security company said, originated from a DDoS botnet-for-hire known as AISURU, which has been linked to a number of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks over the past year….
The China-based cyber-threat group has been quietly using malicious extensions on the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge marketplaces to spy on millions of users.
The vulnerability, which was assigned two CVEs with maximum CVSS scores of 10, may affect more than a third of cloud service providers.
The suit alleges the Chinese retailer’s app secretly accesses and harvests users’ sensitive information without their knowledge or consent.
A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in React Server Components (RSC) that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-55182, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It allows “unauthenticated remote code execution by exploiting a flaw in how React decodes payloads sent to React Server Function endpoints,” the…