Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

'Full recovery is impossible for anyone, including the attacker' Organizations hit by the wave of Trivy and LiteLLM supply-chain compromises that paid Vect in hopes of recovering their data likely did not get much back, according to Check Point Research. That's because the ransomware Vect uses isn't actually ransomware at all, but a wiper that destroys any file larger than 128KB.…

Attack infrastructure attributed to 'several Iran-nexus threat actors' Multiple Iranian hacking crews have been targeting internet-connected surveillance cameras across Israel and other Middle Eastern countries since the war started on February 28, according to Check Point security researchers. …

More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration, silently swapping it for a malicious command without any user prompt.…

Not that you needed another reason to enable the 'known senders' setting Criminals are spoofing Google Calendar emails in a financially motivated phishing expedition that has already affected about 300 organizations with more than 4,000 emails sent over four weeks, according to Check Point researchers.…

Because Beijing isn't above covert ops to accomplish its five-year goals Chinese cyberspies targeted two Russian defense institutes and possibly another research facility in Belarus, according to Check Point Research.…

Check Point uncovers web vulnerability that could have led to cryptocurrency theft A flaw detected in the browser version of the Ever Surf cryptocurrency wallet could have given hackers who exploited it full control over a targeted user's wallet, say threat hunters at Check Point Research.…