Google Bans 158,000 Malicious Android App Developer Accounts in 2024

Google said it blocked over 2.36 million policy-violating Android apps from being published to the Google Play app marketplace in 2024 and banned more than 158,000 bad developer accounts that attempted to publish such harmful apps. The tech giant also

Broadcom Patches VMware Aria Flaws – Exploits May Lead to Credential Theft

Broadcom has released security updates to patch five security flaws impacting VMware Aria Operations and Aria Operations for Logs, warning customers that attackers could exploit them to gain elevated access or obtain sensitive information. The list of identified flaws, which

Google: Over 57 Nation-State Threat Groups Using AI for Cyber Operations

Over 57 distinct threat actors with ties to China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have been observed using artificial intelligence (AI) technology powered by Google to further enable their malicious cyber and information operations. “Threat actors are experimenting with Gemini

Authorities Seize Domains of Popular Hacking Forums in Major Cybercrime Crackdown

An international law enforcement operation has dismantled the domains associated with various online platforms linked to cybercrime such as Cracked, Nulled, Sellix, and StarkRDP. The effort has targeted the following domains – www.cracked.io www.nulled.to www.mysellix.io www.sellix.io www.starkrdp.io Visitors to these

Lightning AI Studio Vulnerability Allowed RCE via Hidden URL Parameter

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the Lightning AI Studio development platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow for remote code execution. The vulnerability, rated a CVSS score of 9.4, enables “attackers to potentially execute arbitrary commands

SOC Analysts – Reimagining Their Role Using AI

The job of a SOC analyst has never been easy. Faced with an overwhelming flood of daily alerts, analysts (and sometimes IT teams who are doubling as SecOps) must try and triage thousands of security alerts—often false positives—just to identify

DeepSeek AI Database Exposed: Over 1 Million Log Lines, Secret Keys Leaked

Buzzy Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepSeek, which has had a meteoric rise in popularity in recent days, left one of its databases exposed on the internet, which could have allowed malicious actors to gain access to sensitive data. The

Unpatched PHP Voyager Flaws Leave Servers Open to One-Click RCE Exploits

Three security flaws have been disclosed in the open-source PHP package Voyager that could be exploited by an attacker to achieve one-click remote code execution on affected instances. “When an authenticated Voyager user clicks on a malicious link, attackers can

New Aquabot Botnet Exploits CVE-2024-41710 in Mitel Phones for DDoS Attacks

A Mirai botnet variant dubbed Aquabot has been observed actively attempting to exploit a medium-severity security flaw impacting Mitel phones in order to ensnare them into a network capable of mounting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The vulnerability in question is

Lazarus Group Uses React-Based Admin Panel to Control Global Cyber Attacks

The North Korean threat actor known as the Lazarus Group has been observed leveraging a “web-based administrative platform” to oversee its command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, giving the adversary the ability to centrally supervise all aspects of their campaigns. “Each C2 server