Month: March 2025

Cyber Security Starts Here

Seven Malicious Go Packages Found Deploying Malware on Linux and macOS Systems

Cybersecurity researchers are alerting of an ongoing malicious campaign targeting the Go ecosystem with typosquatted modules that are designed to deploy loader malware on Linux and Apple macOS systems. “The threat actor has published at least seven packages impersonating widely used Go libraries, including one (github[.]com/shallowmulti/hypert) that appears to target financial-sector developers

Researchers Link CACTUS Ransomware Tactics to Former Black Basta Affiliates

Threat actors deploying the Black Basta and CACTUS ransomware families have been found to rely on the same BackConnect (BC) module for maintaining persistent control over infected hosts, a sign that affiliates previously associated with Black Basta may have transitioned to CACTUS. “Once infiltrated, it grants attackers a wide range of remote control capabilities, allowing…
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VMware Security Flaws Exploited in the Wild—Broadcom Releases Urgent Patches

Broadcom has released security updates to address three actively exploited security flaws in VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products that could lead to code execution and information disclosure. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2025-22224 (CVSS score: 9.3) – A Time-of-Check Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) vulnerability that leads to an out-of-bounds write, which a malicious…
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How New AI Agents Will Transform Credential Stuffing Attacks

Credential stuffing attacks had a huge impact in 2024, fueled by a vicious circle of infostealer infections and data breaches. But things could be about to get worse still with Computer-Using Agents, a new kind of AI agent that enables low-cost, low-effort automation of common web tasks — including those frequently performed by attackers. Stolen…
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Suspected Iranian Hackers Used Compromised Indian Firm’s Email to Target U.A.E. Aviation Sector

Threat hunters are calling attention to a new highly-targeted phishing campaign that singled out “fewer than five” entities in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) to deliver a previously undocumented Golang backdoor dubbed Sosano. The malicious activity was specifically directed against aviation and satellite communications organizations, according to Proofpoint, which detected it in late October

Over 4,000 ISP IPs Targeted in Brute-Force Attacks to Deploy Info Stealers and Cryptominers

Internet service providers (ISPs) in China and the West Coast of the United States have become the target of a mass exploitation campaign that deploys information stealers and cryptocurrency miners on compromised hosts. The findings come from the Splunk Threat Research Team, which said the activity also led to the delivery of various binaries that…
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Cisco, Hitachi, Microsoft, and Progress Flaws Actively Exploited—CISA Sounds Alarm

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added five security flaws impacting software from Cisco, Hitachi Vantara, Microsoft Windows, and Progress WhatsUp Gold to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2023-20118 (CVSS score: 6.5) – A command injection

Google’s March 2025 Android Security Update Fixes Two Actively Exploited Vulnerabilities

Google has released its monthly Android Security Bulletin for March 2025 to address a total of 44 vulnerabilities, including two that it said have come under active exploitation in the wild. The two high-severity vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2024-43093 – A privilege escalation flaw in the Framework component that could result in unauthorized access…
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Hackers Use ClickFix Trick to Deploy PowerShell-Based Havoc C2 via SharePoint Sites

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new phishing campaign that employs the ClickFix technique to deliver an open-source command-and-control (C2) framework called Havoc. “The threat actor hides each malware stage behind a SharePoint site and uses a modified version of Havoc Demon in conjunction with the Microsoft Graph API to obscure C2 communications within…
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U.K. ICO Investigates TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur Over Children’s Data Protection Practices

The U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has opened an investigation into online platforms TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur to assess the steps they are taking to protect children between the ages of 13 and 17 in the country. To that end, the watchdog said it’s probing how the ByteDance-owned video-sharing service uses the personal data of…
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