Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation called GLOBAL GROUP that has targeted a wide range of sectors in Australia, Brazil, Europe, and the United States since its emergence in early June 2025. GLOBAL GROUP was “promoted on the Ramp4u forum by the threat actor known as ‘$$$,’” EclecticIQ researcher Arda…
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The new framework is modeled after and meant to complement the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and it is aimed at detecting and responding to cyberattacks on cryptocurrency assets and other financial targets.
Governmental organizations in Southeast Asia are the target of a new campaign that aims to collect sensitive information by means of a previously undocumented Windows backdoor dubbed HazyBeacon. The activity is being tracked by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 under the moniker CL-STA-1020, where “CL” stands for “cluster” and “STA” refers to “state-backed motivation.” “The…
AI agents promise to automate everything from financial reconciliations to incident response. Yet every time an AI agent spins up a workflow, it has to authenticate somewhere; often with a high-privilege API key, OAuth token, or service account that defenders can’t easily see. These “invisible” non-human identities (NHIs) now outnumber human accounts in most cloud…
Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of a widely used remote access trojan called AsyncRAT, which was first released on GitHub in January 2019 and has since served as the foundation for several other variants. “AsyncRAT has cemented its place as a cornerstone of modern malware and as a pervasive threat that has evolved into…
The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing another set of 67 malicious packages to the npm registry, underscoring ongoing attempts to poison the open-source ecosystem via software supply chain attacks. The packages, per Socket, have attracted more than 17,000 downloads, and incorporate a previously undocumented version of…
A cyber-threat campaign is using legitimate websites to inject victims with remote access Trojans belonging to the Interlock ransomware group, in order to gain control of devices.
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A prompt-injection vulnerability in the AI assistant allows attackers to create messages that appear to be legitimate Google Security alerts but instead can be used to target users across various Google products with vishing and phishing.