Security News
The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids
Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort
Human Security’s Satori research team says it has found a new variant of the remote-controllable Badbox malware, and as...
The Register
8 Mar 2025 2589 Views
'EncryptHub' OPSEC Failures Reveal TTPs & Big Plans
Is EncryptHub the most prolific cybercriminal in recent history? Or, as new information suggests, a bumbling amateur?
Dark Reading
7 Mar 2025 6918 Views
Microsoft says malvertising campaign impacted 1 million PCs
Microsoft has taken down an undisclosed number of GitHub repositories used in a massive malvertising campaign that impacted almost one million devices worldwide. [...]
Bleepingcomputer
7 Mar 2025 1167 Views
Open-source tool 'Rayhunter' helps users detect Stingray attacks
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a free, open-source tool named Rayhunter that is designed to detect cell-site simulators (CSS), also known as IMSI catchers or Stingrays. [...]
Bleepingcomputer
6 Mar 2025 1443 Views
Microsoft Teams tactics, malware connect Black Basta, Cactus ransomware
New research has uncovered further links between the Black Basta and Cactus ransomware gangs, with members of both groups utilizing the same social engineering attacks and the BackConnect proxy malware for post-exploitation access to corporate networks.
Bleeping Computer
5 Mar 2025 1549 Views
YouTube warns of AI-generated video of its CEO used in phishing attacks
YouTube warns that scammers are using an AI-generated video featuring the company's CEO in phishing attacks to steal creators' credentials. [...]
Bleepingcomputer
5 Mar 2025 1393 Views
Phishers Wreak 'Havoc,' Disguising Attack Inside SharePoint
A complex campaign allows cyberattackers to take over Windows systems by a combining a ClickFix-style attack and sophisticated obfuscation that abuses legitimate Microsoft services.
Dark Reading
4 Mar 2025 8039 Views
12,000+ API Keys and Passwords Found in Public Datasets Used for LLM Training
A dataset used to train large language models (LLMs) has been found to contain nearly 12,000 live secrets, which allow for successful authentication. The findings once again highlight how hard-coded credentials pose a severe security risk to users and organizations alike, ...
The Hacker News
28 Feb 2025 8366 Views
AI Tricksters Spin Up Fake DeepSeek Sites to Steal Crypto
The fake websites trick users into downloading and running malware that searches for personal information, especially anything related to crypto currency.
Dark Reading
26 Feb 2025 10125 Views
Beware: PayPal "New Address" feature abused to send phishing emails
An ongoing PayPal email scam exploits the platform's address settings to send fake purchase notifications, tricking users into granting remote access to scammers [...]
Bleepingcomputer
23 Feb 2025 1252 Views
