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Stuff broke again. Not in a movie way. An old tool was left exposed. An abandoned package was abused. A deprecated feature was still running in prod
Despite a 2025 patch, Russian-linked groups still exploit a WinRAR flaw (CVE-2025-8088) to deploy malware via phishing archives. CVE-2025-8088 is a path traversal flaw in WinRAR that lets an attacker write files outside the extraction directory using NTFS Alternate Data Streams. WinRAR fixed it in version 7.13 in July 2025. Nearly a year later, Trend […]
Monday hit like a cron job with anger issues
This week, the shadows moved faster than the patches
Also: ZachXBT Uncovers DPRK Worker Scam, Hyperbridge Hack, Coinone FineThis week, Operation Atlantic disrupts $45M phishing fraud, ZachXBT uncovers DPRK crypto worker scheme, Hyperbridge exploit, South Korea fines Coinone $3.5M, Kraken faces extortion attempt over insider data leak and American musician loses $420K in fake Ledger app.
Okta's Brett Winterford on Identity Threats and Agentic AI RisksAI is accelerating cyberattacks, collapsing timelines and exposing new identity risks. Okta's Brett Winterford explains how attackers are using AI to scale phishing, exploit credentials and infiltrate enterprises - and what CIOs must do to defend against this rapidly evolving threat landscape.
Tax-season phishing floods deliver RMM malware, credential theft, BEC and tax-form scams
Proofpoint has disclosed details of a targeted email campaign in which threat actors with ties to Russia are leveraging the recently disclosed DarkSword exploit kit to target iOS devices
Also: SEC Drops BitClout Founder Case, BlockFills Files for Chapter 11This week, a hacker minted $24M from Resolv, SEC dropped its case against BitClout founder, BlockFills filed for Chapter 11, Bitrefill linked hack to Lazarus, OpenClaw phishing scam hit devs, global law enforcement crackdown on scams and Balancer Labs to wind down after $128M exploit.
Here's where you ought to spend your security billable hours budget this year Strengthen your MFA policies, double-down on anti-phishing training, and for Jobs' sake, patch all your vulns right away. The past year of intelligence collected by Cisco's Talos threat hunters suggests that attackers are moving faster to exploit vulns, and fooling more staff than ever into giving up their credentials. …
ThreatsDay Bulletin is back on The Hacker News, and this week feels off in a familiar way. Nothing loud, nothing breaking everything at once. Just a lot of small things that shouldn’t work anymore but still do
Sophisticated Voice Phishing Campaigns Don't Exploit Any Software VulnerabilitiesAmidst persistent voice phishing campaigns designed to trick employees and steal sensitive corporate data, security experts recommend organizations deploy phishing-resistant multifactor authentication, monitor for attacks and use "live video verification" to safeguard authentication changes.
AI is changing cybercrime in a big way. Autonomous AI agents could soon carry out entire attacks on their own -scanning servers, testing vulnerabilities, refining exploits and even launching phishing campaigns from start to finish, said David Sancho, senior threat researcher at Trend Micro.
Phishing succeeds not because users are careless, but because attackers exploit human timing, context, and emotion. Flare shows how modern phishing has become industrialized, scalable, and increasingly hard to spot. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new phishing campaign that exploits social media private messages to propagate malicious payloads, likely with the intent to deploy a remote access trojan (RAT)
Cybersecurity Researchers at ReliaQuest warn of an ongoing campaign delivered to “high-value individuals” via LinkedIn messages
Phishing attacks have been identified using fake PayPal alerts to exploit remote monitoring and management tools
Cybersecurity researchers issue warning over a surge in attacks designed to trick Facebook users into handing over login credentials
Misconfigurations abused to make phishing emails look like they come from within the organization
AI is changing cybercrime in a big way. Autonomous AI agents could soon carry out entire attacks on their own -scanning servers, testing vulnerabilities, refining exploits and even launching phishing campaigns from start to finish, said David Sancho, senior threat researcher at Trend Micro.