Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Go module that presents itself as a brute-force tool for SSH but actually contains functionality to discreetly exfiltrate credentials to its creator. “On the first successful login, the package sends the target IP address, username, and password to a hard-coded Telegram bot controlled by the threat actor,” Socket researcher…

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to multiple campaigns that leverage known security vulnerabilities and expose Redis servers to various malicious activities, including leveraging the compromised devices as IoT botnets, residential proxies, or cryptocurrency mining infrastructure. The first set of attacks entails the exploitation of CVE-2024-36401 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical

A Chinese APT is going where most APTs don’t: deep into the cloud, compromising supply chains and deploying uncommon malware.

A bug in the control board that connects peripheral devices in commonly used Dell laptops allowed malicious access all the way down to the firmware running on the device chip, new research finds.

Music tastes, location information, even encrypted messages — Apple’s servers are gathering a “surprising” amount of personal data through Apple Intelligence, Lumia Security’s Yoav Magid warns in his new analysis.

The operation disrupted countless scams, and authorities seized a significant amount of evidence and recovered nearly $100 million in lost funds.

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel attack chain that employs phishing emails to deliver an open-source backdoor called VShell. The “Linux-specific malware infection chain that starts with a spam email with a malicious RAR archive file,” Trellix researcher Sagar Bade said in a technical write-up. “The payload isn’t hidden inside the file content…

CVE-2025-43300 is the latest zero-day bug used in cyberattacks against “targeted individuals,” which could signify spyware or nation-state hacking.

The growing ecosystem of agents, chatbots, and machine credentials that outnumber human users by an order of magnitude is creating a poorly understood but potentially major security issue.

Some insurers look to limit payouts to companies that don’t remediate serious vulnerabilities in a timely manner. Unsurprisingly, most companies don’t like those restrictions.