Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT29 has been linked to an advanced phishing campaign that's targeting diplomatic entities across Europe with a new variant of WINELOADER and a previously unreported malware loader codenamed GRAPELOADER

Windows administrators from numerous organizations report widespread account lockouts triggered by false positives in the rollout of a new Microsoft Entra ID's "leaked credentials" detection app called MACE. [...]

A new malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform named 'SuperCard X' has emerged, targeting Android devices via NFC relay attacks that enable point-of-sale and ATM transactions using compromised payment card data. [...]

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered three malicious packages in the npm registry that masquerade as a popular Telegram bot library but harbor SSH backdoors and data exfiltration capabilities

Public exploits are now available for a critical Erlang/OTP SSH vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-32433, allowing unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code on impacted devices. [...]

AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done Video Crosswalk buttons in various US cities were hijacked over the past week or so to – rather than robotically tell people it's safe to walk or wait – instead emit the AI-spoofed voices of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg.…

Google Gemini is testing a ChatGPT-like scheduled tasks feature called "Scheduled Actions," which will allow you to create tasks that Gemini will execute later. [...]

ASUS has disclosed a critical security flaw impacting routers with AiCloud enabled that could permit remote attackers to perform unauthorized execution of functions on susceptible devices

With highly sensitive information and disruptions to medical care at stake during cyberattacks on healthcare organizations, it's vital for these entities to carefully consider details of their communications plans well in advance of suffering a serious incident, said Tom Bolitho of FTI Consulting.

DOGE Staffers Allegedly Violated Federal Cyber Best Practices and Data Privacy LawsA whistleblower complaint made public this week provides the most in-depth look yet at the Department of Government Efficiency's many alleged cybersecurity failures, from violating federal best practices to seemingly ignoring data security laws in an apparent bid to shrink the government.

EVP Muhi Majzoub Outlines Integration of TDR, Generative AI Across Core PlatformsOpenText is embedding threat detection, identity protection and generative AI across its cloud and on premise platforms. EVP Muhi Majzoub says the threat detection and response system will integrate with Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike and others to identify anomalies and stop attacks in real time.

Threat actors would be at least temporarily derailed, experts say. But the real issue ladders back to organizations’ weak cyber hygiene.

Community Dental Care Is State's Largest Non-Profit Serving Medicaid PatientsMinnesota's largest nonprofit Medicaid dental practice is notifying nearly 135,000 people of a December 2024 data theft incident that potentially compromised their health and personal information, ranging from medical information to passport numbers.

Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk's cost-trimmers at DOGE are being careless in their use of AI to help figure out where to slash, creating security risks and giving the oligarch's artificial intelligence lab an inside track to train its models on government info.…

Identity verification, insurance claims, and financial services are all seeing surges in AI-enabled fraud, but organizations are taking advantage of AI systems to fight fire with fire.

The Interlock ransomware gang now uses ClickFix attacks that impersonate IT tools to breach corporate networks and deploy file-encrypting malware on devices. [...]

Also: CVE Program Faces Funding Cliff, Whistleblower Flags DOGE Cybersecurity GapsIn this week's update, ISMG editors unpacked a whirlwind of cybersecurity drama related to the U.S. government, including Chris Krebs' abrupt exit from SentinelOne to defend against President Trump, the CVE program funding scare and explosive whistleblower claims against Elon Musk's DOGE task force.

The notorious nation-state-backed threat actor has added two new keyloggers, a lateral movement tool, and an endpoint detection and response (EDR) evasion driver to its arsenal.