North Korean threat actors have been attributed to a coordinated cyber espionage campaign targeting diplomatic missions in their southern counterpart between March and July 2025. The activity manifested in the form of at least 19 spear-phishing emails that impersonated trusted diplomatic contacts with the goal of luring embassy staff and foreign ministry personnel with convincing…

A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly developing and overseeing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire botnet called RapperBot. Ethan Foltz of Eugene, Oregon, has been identified as the administrator of the service, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said. The botnet has been used to carry out large-scale DDoS-for-hire…

The uptick in breaches in Asia has prompted a Japanese chipmaker and the Singaporean government to require vendors to pass cybersecurity checks to do business.

This attack was seemingly more successful than the first iteration, causing disruptions at the plant.

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As more organizations integrate vibe coding and AI-assisted coding into their application development processes, it’s important to remember to put security first.

The highly sophisticated post-compromise tool abuses the Linux kernel’s io_uring interface to remain hidden from endpoint detection and response systems.

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Have I Been Pwned claims that the compromised data includes physical addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and more, for life insurance customers.

Threat actors are exploiting a nearly two-year-old security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to gain persistent access to cloud Linux systems and deploy malware called DripDropper. But in an unusual twist, the unknown attackers have been observed patching the exploited vulnerability after securing initial access to prevent further exploitation by other adversaries and evade detection, Red…