DPRK’s FlexibleFerret Tightens macOS Grip
The actor behind the “Contagious Interview” campaign is continuing to refine its tactics and social engineering scams to wrest credentials from macOS users.
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Years of JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify Leaks Expose Thousands of Passwords and API Keys
New research has found that organizations in various sensitive sectors, including governments, telecoms, and critical infrastructure, are pasting passwords and credentials into online tools like JSONformatter and CodeBeautify that are used to format and validate code. Cybersecurity company watchTowr Labs said it captured a dataset of over 80,000 files on these sites, uncovering thousands of
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With Friends Like These: China Spies on Russian IT Orgs
State-linked hackers stayed under the radar by using a variety of commercial cloud services for command-and-control communications.
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As Gen Z Enters Cybersecurity, Jury Is Out on AI’s Impact
Despite possibly supplanting some young analysts, one Gen Z cybersecurity specialist sees AI helping teach those willing to learn and removing drudge work.
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JackFix Uses Fake Windows Update Pop-Ups on Adult Sites to Deliver Multiple Stealers
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new campaign that’s leveraging a combination of ClickFix lures and fake adult websites to deceive users into running malicious commands under the guise of a “critical” Windows security update. “Campaign leverages fake adult websites (xHamster, PornHub clones) as its phishing mechanism, likely distributed via malvertising,” Acronis said in…
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‘JackFix’ Attack Circumvents ClickFix Mitigations
A new ClickFix variant ratchets up the psychological pressure to 100 and addresses some technical mitigations to classic ClickFix attacks.
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ToddyCat’s New Hacking Tools Steal Outlook Emails and Microsoft 365 Access Tokens
The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been observed adopting new methods to obtain access to corporate email data belonging to target companies, including using a custom tool dubbed TCSectorCopy. “This attack allows them to obtain tokens for the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol using the user’s browser, which can be used outside the perimeter of…
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3 SOC Challenges You Need to Solve Before 2026
2026 will mark a pivotal shift in cybersecurity. Threat actors are moving from experimenting with AI to making it their primary weapon, using it to scale attacks, automate reconnaissance, and craft hyper-realistic social engineering campaigns. The Storm on the Horizon Global world instability, coupled with rapid technological advancement, will force security teams to adapt not…
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Hackers Hijack Blender 3D Assets to Deploy StealC V2 Data-Stealing Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign that has leveraged Blender Foundation files to deliver an information stealer known as StealC V2. “This ongoing operation, active for at least six months, involves implanting malicious .blend files on platforms like CGTrader,” Morphisec researcher Shmuel Uzan said in a report shared with The Hacker News….
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CISA Warns of Active Spyware Campaigns Hijacking High-Value Signal and WhatsApp Users
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday issued an alert warning of bad actors actively leveraging commercial spyware and remote access trojans (RATs) to target users of mobile messaging applications. “These cyber actors use sophisticated targeting and social engineering techniques to deliver spyware and gain unauthorized access to a victim’s messaging app,