Anthropic on Wednesday revealed that it disrupted a sophisticated operation that weaponized its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot Claude to conduct large-scale theft and extortion of personal data in July 2025. “The actor targeted at least 17 distinct organizations, including in healthcare, the emergency services, and government, and religious institutions,” the company said. “
A threat activity cluster known as ShadowSilk has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government entities within Central Asia and Asia-Pacific (APAC). According to Group-IB, nearly three dozen victims have been identified, with the intrusions mainly geared towards data exfiltration. The hacking group shares toolset and infrastructural overlaps with campaigns undertaken by…
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Employees are experimenting with AI at record speed. They are drafting emails, analyzing data, and transforming the workplace. The problem is not the pace of AI adoption, but the lack of control and safeguards in place. For CISOs and security leaders like you, the challenge is clear: you don’t want to slow AI adoption down,…
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A widespread data theft campaign has allowed hackers to breach sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens associated with the Drift artificial intelligence (AI) chat agent. The activity, assessed to be opportunistic in nature, has been attributed to a threat actor tracked by Google Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant, tracked as UNC6395.…
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Citrix has released fixes to address three security flaws in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including one that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-7775 (CVSS score: 9.2) – Memory overflow vulnerability leading to Remote Code Execution and/or Denial-of-Service CVE-2025-7776 (CVSS score: 8.8) –…
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A team of academics has devised a novel attack that can be used to downgrade a 5G connection to a lower generation without relying on a rogue base station (gNB). The attack, per the ASSET (Automated Systems SEcuriTy) Research Group at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), relies on a new open-source software…
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Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a sophisticated social engineering campaign that’s targeting supply chain-critical manufacturing companies with an in-memory malware dubbed MixShell. The activity has been codenamed ZipLine by Check Point Research. “Instead of sending unsolicited phishing emails, attackers initiate contact through a company’s public ‘Contact Us’ form, tricking
A new large-scale campaign has been observed exploiting over 100 compromised WordPress sites to direct site visitors to fake CAPTCHA verification pages that employ the ClickFix social engineering tactic to deliver information stealers, ransomware, and cryptocurrency miners. The large-scale cybercrime campaign, first detected in August 2025, has been codenamed ShadowCaptcha by the Israel National
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of an Android banking trojan called HOOK that features ransomware-style overlay screens to display extortion messages. “A prominent characteristic of the latest variant is its capacity to deploy a full-screen ransomware overlay, which aims to coerce the victim into remitting a ransom payment,” Zimperium zLabs researcher Vishnu Pratapagiri
Google has announced plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even for those who distribute their software outside the Play Store. “Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified Android devices,” the company said. “This creates…
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