Old Playbook, New Scale: While defenders are chasing trends, attackers are optimizing the basics The security industry loves talking about “new” threats. AI-powered attacks. Quantum-resistant encryption. Zero-trust architectures. But looking around, it seems like the most effective attacks in 2025 are pretty much the same as they were in 2015. Attackers are exploiting the same…
ServiceNow has disclosed details of a now-patched critical security flaw impacting its ServiceNow AI Platform that could enable an unauthenticated user to impersonate another user and perform arbitrary actions as that user. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-12420, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of 10.0 “This issue […] could enable an unauthenticated user to…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed SHADOW#REACTOR that employs an evasive multi-stage attack chain to deliver a commercially available remote administration tool called Remcos RAT and establish persistent, covert remote access. “The infection chain follows a tightly orchestrated execution path: an obfuscated VBS launcher executed via wscript.exe invokes a
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned of active exploitation of a high-severity security flaw impacting Gogs by adding it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-8110 (CVSS score: 8.7), relates to a case of path traversal in the repository file editor that could result in code…
Massive data dump reveals real identities and details of administrators and members of the notorious hacker forum.
Researchers detailed a souped-up version of the GoBruteforcer botnet that preys on servers with weak credentials and AI-generated configurations.
No matter what new laws or regulations make the cut for 2026, it’s clear that compliance challenges will persist and federal legislation will be limited.
A state-sponsored threat group tracked as “Kimsuky” sent QR-code-filled phishing emails to US and foreign government agencies, NGOs, and academic institutions.
Threat actors have been observed uploading a set of eight packages on the npm registry that masqueraded as integrations targeting the n8n workflow automation platform to steal developers’ OAuth credentials. One such package, named “n8n-nodes-hfgjf-irtuinvcm-lasdqewriit,” mimics a Google Ads integration, and prompts users to link their advertising account in a seemingly legitimate form and then