Cyber Security News
China-Linked DKnife AitM Framework Targets Routers for Traffic Hijacking, Malware Delivery
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a gateway-monitoring and adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) framework dubbed DKnife that's operated by China-nexus threat actors since at least 2019.
The framework comprises seven Linux-based implants that are designed to perform deep packet inspection, manipulate traffic, and deliver malware via routers and edge devices. Its primary targets seem to
Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:26:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
CISA Orders Removal of Unsupported Edge Devices to Reduce Federal Network Risk
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to strengthen asset lifecycle management for edge network devices and remove those that no longer receive security updates from original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) over the next 12 to 18 months.
The agency said the move is to drive down technical debt and minimize
Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:13:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Asian State-Backed Group TGR-STA-1030 Breaches 70 Government, Infrastructure Entities
A previously undocumented cyber espionage group operating from Asia broke into the networks of at least 70 government and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries over the past year, according to new findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42.
In addition, the hacking crew has been observed conducting active reconnaissance against government infrastructure associated with 155
Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:37:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
How Samsung Knox Helps Stop Your Network Security Breach
As you know, enterprise network security has undergone significant evolution over the past decade. Firewalls have become more intelligent, threat detection methods have advanced, and access controls are now more detailed. However (and it’s a big “however”), the increasing use of mobile devices in business operations necessitates network security measures that are specifically
Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:00:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Compromised dYdX npm and PyPI Packages Deliver Wallet Stealers and RAT Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new supply chain attack in which legitimate packages on npm and the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository have been compromised to push malicious versions to facilitate wallet credential theft and remote code execution.
The compromised versions of the two packages are listed below -
@dydxprotocol/v4-client-js (npm) - 3.4.1, 1.22.1, 1.15.2, 1.0.31&
Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:10:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Claude Opus 4.6 Finds 500+ High-Severity Flaws Across Major Open-Source Libraries
Artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic revealed that its latest large language model (LLM), Claude Opus 4.6, has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries, including Ghostscript, OpenSC, and CGIF.
Claude Opus 4.6, which was launched Thursday, comes with improved coding skills, including code review and debugging capabilities, along with
Published: Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:19:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
AISURU/Kimwolf Botnet Launches Record-Setting 31.4 Tbps DDoS Attack
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as AISURU/Kimwolf has been attributed to a record-setting attack that peaked at 31.4 Terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted only 35 seconds.
Cloudflare, which automatically detected and mitigated the activity, said it's part of a growing number of hyper-volumetric HTTP DDoS attacks mounted by the botnet in the fourth quarter of 2025. The
Published: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:55:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
ThreatsDay Bulletin: Codespaces RCE, AsyncRAT C2, BYOVD Abuse, AI Cloud Intrusions & 15+ Stories
This week didn’t produce one big headline. It produced many small signals — the kind that quietly shape what attacks will look like next.
Researchers tracked intrusions that start in ordinary places: developer workflows, remote tools, cloud access, identity paths, and even routine user actions. Nothing looked dramatic on the surface. That’s the point. Entry is becoming less visible while impact
Published: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:27:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
The Buyer’s Guide to AI Usage Control
Today’s “AI everywhere” reality is woven into everyday workflows across the enterprise, embedded in SaaS platforms, browsers, copilots, extensions, and a rapidly expanding universe of shadow tools that appear faster than security teams can track. Yet most organizations still rely on legacy controls that operate far away from where AI interactions actually occur. The result is a widening
Published: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:00:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Infy Hackers Resume Operations with New C2 Servers After Iran Internet Blackout Ends
The elusive Iranian threat group known as Infy (aka Prince of Persia) has evolved its tactics as part of efforts to hide its tracks, even as it readied new command-and-control (C2) infrastructure coinciding with the end of the widespread internet blackout the regime imposed at the start of January 2026.
"The threat actor stopped maintaining its C2 servers on January 8 for the first time since we
Published: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:55:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Critical n8n Flaw CVE-2026-25049 Enables System Command Execution via Malicious Workflows
A new, critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the n8n workflow automation platform that, if successfully exploited, could result in the execution of arbitrary system commands.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-25049 (CVSS score: 9.4), is the result of inadequate sanitization that bypasses safeguards put in place to address CVE-2025-68613 (CVSS score: 9.9), another critical defect that
Published: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:46:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Malicious NGINX Configurations Enable Large-Scale Web Traffic Hijacking Campaign
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active web traffic hijacking campaign that has targeted NGINX installations and management panels like Baota (BT) in an attempt to route it through the attacker's infrastructure.
Datadog Security Labs said it observed threat actors associated with the recent React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182, CVSS score: 10.0) exploitation using malicious NGINX
Published: Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:26:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Microsoft Develops Scanner to Detect Backdoors in Open-Weight Large Language Models
Microsoft on Wednesday said it built a lightweight scanner that it said can detect backdoors in open-weight large language models (LLMs) and improve the overall trust in artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
The tech giant's AI Security team said the scanner leverages three observable signals that can be used to reliably flag the presence of backdoors while maintaining a low false positive
Published: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:22:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
DEAD#VAX Malware Campaign Deploys AsyncRAT via IPFS-Hosted VHD Phishing Files
Threat hunters have disclosed details of a new, stealthy malware campaign dubbed DEAD#VAX that employs a mix of "disciplined tradecraft and clever abuse of legitimate system features" to bypass traditional detection mechanisms and deploy a remote access trojan (RAT) known as AsyncRAT.
"The attack leverages IPFS-hosted VHD files, extreme script obfuscation, runtime decryption, and in-memory
Published: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:54:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
China-Linked Amaranth-Dragon Exploits WinRAR Flaw in Espionage Campaigns
Threat actors affiliated with China have been attributed to a fresh set of cyber espionage campaigns targeting government and law enforcement agencies across Southeast Asia throughout 2025.
Check Point Research is tracking the previously undocumented activity cluster under the moniker Amaranth-Dragon, which it said shares links to the APT 41 ecosystem. Targeted countries include Cambodia,
Published: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:39:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Orchid Security Introduces Continuous Identity Observability for Enterprise Applications
An innovative approach to discovering, analyzing, and governing identity usage beyond traditional IAM controls.
The Challenge: Identity Lives Outside the Identity Stack
Identity and access management tools were built to govern users and directories.
Modern enterprises run on applications. Over time, identity logic has moved into application code, APIs, service accounts, and custom authentication
Published: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:28:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
The First 90 Seconds: How Early Decisions Shape Incident Response Investigations
Many incident response failures do not come from a lack of tools, intelligence, or technical skills. They come from what happens immediately after detection, when pressure is high, and information is incomplete.
I have seen IR teams recover from sophisticated intrusions with limited telemetry. I have also seen teams lose control of investigations they should have been able to handle. The
Published: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:30:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Microsoft Warns Python Infostealers Target macOS via Fake Ads and Installers
Microsoft has warned that information-stealing attacks are "rapidly expanding" beyond Windows to target Apple macOS environments by leveraging cross-platform languages like Python and abusing trusted platforms for distribution at scale.
The tech giant's Defender Security Research Team said it observed macOS-targeted infostealer campaigns using social engineering techniques such as ClickFix since
Published: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:12:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Eclipse Foundation Mandates Pre-Publish Security Checks for Open VSX Extensions
The Eclipse Foundation, which maintains the Open VSX Registry, has announced plans to enforce security checks before Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions are published to the open-source repository to combat supply chain threats.
The move marks a shift from a reactive to a proactive approach to ensure that malicious extensions don't end up getting published on the Open VSX Registry.
Published: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:56:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Web Help Desk RCE to KEV Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting SolarWinds Web Help Desk (WHD) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, flagging it as actively exploited in attacks.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-40551 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a untrusted data deserialization vulnerability that could pave the way for remote
Published: Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:20:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)