Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, sophisticated variant of a known Android malware referred to as Konfety that leverages the evil twin technique to enable ad fraud. The sneaky approach essentially involves a scenario wherein two variants of an application share the same package name: A benign “decoy” app that’s hosted on the Google Play…
Social engineering attacks have entered a new era—and they’re coming fast, smart, and deeply personalized. It’s no longer just suspicious emails in your spam folder. Today’s attackers use generative AI, stolen branding assets, and deepfake tools to mimic your executives, hijack your social channels, and create convincing fakes of your website, emails, and even voice….
Google on Tuesday rolled out fixes for six security issues in its Chrome web browser, including one that it said has been exploited in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-6558 (CVSS score: 8.8), which has been described as an incorrect validation of untrusted input in the browser’s ANGLE and GPU components. “Insufficient…
Google on Tuesday revealed that its large language model (LLM)-assisted vulnerability discovery framework discovered a security flaw in the SQLite open-source database engine before it could have been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-6965 (CVSS score: 7.2), is a memory corruption flaw affecting all versions prior to 3.50.2. It was discovered by…
What is the Vulnerability?CVE-2025-47812 is a recently disclosed Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting Wing FTP Server, a cross-platform file transfer solution. This critical flaw affects versions prior to 7.4.4, and, if successfully exploited, may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code within the context of the vulnerable application. The vulnerability stems from null byte…
Using more than 600 domains, attackers entice Chinese-speaking victims to download a vulnerable Telegram app that is nearly undetectable on older versions of Android.
McDonald’s hiring platform was using its original default credentials and inadvertently exposed information belonging to approximately 64 million job applicants.
Experts recommend enhanced AI literacy, training around the ethics of using AI, and verification protocols to maintain credibility in an increasingly AI-influenced courtroom.
Since surfacing on GitHub in 2019, AsyncRAT has become a poster child for how open source malware can democratize cybercrime, with a mazelike footprint of variants available across the spectrum of functionality.
For the 16th consecutive report, Sophos has been recognized by Gartner as a Leader in the Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) category.