Cyber Security News
APT28 Targets Ukrainian UKR-net Users in Long-Running Credential Phishing Campaign
The Russian state-sponsored threat actor known as APT28 has been attributed to what has been described as a "sustained" credential-harvesting campaign targeting users of UKR[.]net, a webmail and news service popular in Ukraine.
The activity, observed by Recorded Future's Insikt Group between June 2024 and April 2025, builds upon prior findings from the cybersecurity company in May 2024 that
Published: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:00:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
New ForumTroll Phishing Attacks Target Russian Scholars Using Fake eLibrary Emails
The threat actor linked to Operation ForumTroll has been attributed to a fresh set of phishing attacks targeting individuals within Russia, according to Kaspersky.
The Russian cybersecurity vendor said it detected the new activity in October 2025. The origins of the threat actor are presently unknown.
"While the spring cyberattacks focused on organizations, the fall campaign honed in on
Published: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:24:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Fix SOC Blind Spots: See Threats to Your Industry & Country in Real Time
Modern security teams often feel like they’re driving through fog with failing headlights. Threats accelerate, alerts multiply, and SOCs struggle to understand which dangers matter right now for their business. Breaking out of reactive defense is no longer optional. It’s the difference between preventing incidents and cleaning up after them.
Below is the path from reactive firefighting to a
Published: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
China-Linked Ink Dragon Hacks Governments Using ShadowPad and FINALDRAFT Malware
The threat actor known as Jewelbug has been increasingly focusing on government targets in Europe since July 2025, even as it continues to attack entities located in Southeast Asia and South America.
Check Point Research is tracking the cluster under the name Ink Dragon. It's also referenced by the broader cybersecurity community under the names CL-STA-0049, Earth Alux, and REF7707. The
Published: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 16:42:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
GhostPoster Malware Found in 17 Firefox Add-ons with 50,000+ Downloads
A new campaign named GhostPoster has leveraged logo files associated with 17 Mozilla Firefox browser add-ons to embed malicious JavaScript code designed to hijack affiliate links, inject tracking code, and commit click and ad fraud.
The extensions have been collectively downloaded over 50,000 times, according to Koi Security, which discovered the campaign. The add-ons are no longer available.
Published: Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:44:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Compromised IAM Credentials Power a Large AWS Crypto Mining Campaign
An ongoing campaign has been observed targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers using compromised Identity and Access Management (IAM) credentials to enable cryptocurrency mining.
The activity, first detected by Amazon's GuardDuty managed threat detection service and its automated security monitoring systems on November 2, 2025, employs never-before-seen persistence techniques to hamper
Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:05:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Rogue NuGet Package Poses as Tracer.Fody, Steals Cryptocurrency Wallet Data
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious NuGet package that typosquats and impersonates the popular .NET tracing library and its author to sneak in a cryptocurrency wallet stealer.
The malicious package, named "Tracer.Fody.NLog," remained on the repository for nearly six years. It was published by a user named "csnemess" on February 26, 2020. It masquerades as "Tracer.Fody,"
Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:09:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Amazon Exposes Years-Long GRU Cyber Campaign Targeting Energy and Cloud Infrastructure
Amazon's threat intelligence team has disclosed details of a "years-long" Russian state-sponsored campaign that targeted Western critical infrastructure between 2021 and 2025.
Targets of the campaign included energy sector organizations across Western nations, critical infrastructure providers in North America and Europe, and entities with cloud-hosted network infrastructure. The activity has
Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:57:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Why Data Security and Privacy Need to Start in Code
AI-assisted coding and AI app generation platforms have created an unprecedented surge in software development. Companies are now facing rapid growth in both the number of applications and the pace of change within those applications. Security and privacy teams are under significant pressure as the surface area they must cover is expanding quickly while their staffing levels remain largely
Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:00:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Fortinet FortiGate Under Active Attack Through SAML SSO Authentication Bypass
Threat actors have begun to exploit two newly disclosed security flaws in Fortinet FortiGate devices, less than a week after public disclosure.
Cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf said it observed active intrusions involving malicious single sign-on (SSO) logins on FortiGate appliances on December 12, 2025. The attacks exploit two critical authentication bypasses (CVE-2025-59718 and CVE-2025-59719
Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:28:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
React2Shell Vulnerability Actively Exploited to Deploy Linux Backdoors
The security vulnerability known as React2Shell is being exploited by threat actors to deliver malware families like KSwapDoor and ZnDoor, according to findings from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and NTT Security.
"KSwapDoor is a professionally engineered remote access tool designed with stealth in mind," Justin Moore, senior manager of threat intel research at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, said in a
Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:51:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Google to Shut Down Dark Web Monitoring Tool in February 2026
Google has announced that it's discontinuing its dark web report tool in February 2026, less than two years after it was launched as a way for users to monitor if their personal information is found on the dark web.
To that end, scans for new dark web breaches will be stopped on January 15, 2026, and the feature will cease to exist effective February 16, 2026.
"While the report offered general
Published: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:32:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Featured Chrome Browser Extension Caught Intercepting Millions of Users' AI Chats
A Google Chrome extension with a "Featured" badge and six million users has been observed silently gathering every prompt entered by users into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbots like OpenAI ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, Meta AI, and Perplexity.
The extension in question is Urban VPN Proxy, which has a 4.7 rating on the Google Chrome
Published: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:16:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
FreePBX Patches Critical SQLi, File-Upload, and AUTHTYPE Bypass Flaws Enabling RCE
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the open-source private branch exchange (PBX) platform FreePBX, including a critical flaw that could result in an authentication bypass under certain configurations.
The shortcomings, discovered by Horizon3.ai and reported to the project maintainers on September 15, 2025, are listed below -
CVE-2025-61675 (CVSS score: 8.6) - Numerous
Published: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:02:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
⚡ Weekly Recap: Apple 0-Days, WinRAR Exploit, LastPass Fines, .NET RCE, OAuth Scams & More
If you use a smartphone, browse the web, or unzip files on your computer, you are in the crosshairs this week. Hackers are currently exploiting critical flaws in the daily software we all rely on—and in some cases, they started attacking before a fix was even ready.
Below, we list the urgent updates you need to install right now to stop these active threats.
⚡ Threat of the Week
Apple and
Published: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:54:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
A Browser Extension Risk Guide After the ShadyPanda Campaign
In early December 2025, security researchers exposed a cybercrime campaign that had quietly hijacked popular Chrome and Edge browser extensions on a massive scale.
A threat group dubbed ShadyPanda spent seven years playing the long game, publishing or acquiring harmless extensions, letting them run clean for years to build trust and gain millions of installs, then suddenly flipping them into
Published: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:25:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Phantom Stealer Spread by ISO Phishing Emails Hitting Russian Finance Sector
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active phishing campaign that's targeting a wide range of sectors in Russia with phishing emails that deliver Phantom Stealer via malicious ISO optical disc images.
The activity, codenamed Operation MoneyMount-ISO by Seqrite Labs, has primarily singled out finance and accounting entities, with those in the procurement, legal, payroll
Published: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:54:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
VolkLocker Ransomware Exposed by Hard-Coded Master Key Allowing Free Decryption
The pro-Russian hacktivist group known as CyberVolk (aka GLORIAMIST) has resurfaced with a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offering called VolkLocker that suffers from implementation lapses in test artifacts, allowing users to decrypt files without paying an extortion fee.
According to SentinelOne, VolkLocker (aka CyberVolk 2.x) emerged in August 2025 and is capable of targeting both Windows
Published: Mon, 15 Dec 2025 11:03:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
CISA Adds Actively Exploited Sierra Wireless Router Flaw Enabling RCE Attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity flaw impacting Sierra Wireless AirLink ALEOS routers to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild.
CVE-2018-4063 (CVSS score: 8.8/9.9) refers to an unrestricted file upload vulnerability that could be exploited to achieve remote code
Published: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 18:03:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
Apple Issues Security Updates After Two WebKit Flaws Found Exploited in the Wild
Apple on Friday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two security flaws that it said have been exploited in the wild, one of which is the same flaw that was patched by Google in Chrome earlier this week.
The vulnerabilities are listed below -
CVE-2025-43529 (CVSS score: N/A) - A use-after-free vulnerability in WebKit
Published: Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:02:00 +0530, Author: info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)