The first quarter of 2025 has been a battlefield in the world of cybersecurity. Cybercriminals continued launching aggressive new campaigns and refining their attack methods. Below is an overview of five notable malware families, accompanied by analyses conducted in controlled
A large-scale malware campaign has been found leveraging a vulnerable Windows driver associated with Adlice’s product suite to sidestep detection efforts and deliver the Gh0st RAT malware. “To further evade detection, the attackers deliberately generated multiple variants (with different hashes)
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to an ongoing campaign that’s targeting gamers and cryptocurrency investors under the guise of open-source projects hosted on GitHub. The campaign, which spans hundreds of repositories, has been dubbed GitVenom by Kaspersky. “The infected projects
Various industrial organizations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region have been targeted as part of phishing attacks designed to deliver a known malware called FatalRAT. “The threat was orchestrated by attackers using legitimate Chinese cloud content delivery network (CDN) myqcloud and
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two security flaws impacting Adobe ColdFusion and Oracle Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question
Cybersecurity researchers are warning of a new campaign that leverages cracked versions of software as a lure to distribute information stealers like Lumma and ACR Stealer. The AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) said it has observed a spike in the
Welcome to your weekly roundup of cyber news, where every headline gives you a peek into the world of online battles. This week, we look at a huge crypto theft, reveal some sneaky AI scam tricks, and discuss big changes
Ransomware doesn’t hit all at once—it slowly floods your defenses in stages. Like a ship subsumed with water, the attack starts quietly, below the surface, with subtle warning signs that are easy to miss. By the time encryption starts, it’s
Google Cloud has announced quantum-safe digital signatures in Google Cloud Key Management Service (Cloud KMS) for software-based keys as a way to bulletproof encryption systems against the threat posed by cryptographically-relevant quantum computers. The feature, currently in preview, coexists with
Australia has become the latest country to ban the installation of security software from Russian company Kaspersky, citing national security concerns. “After considering threat and risk analysis, I have determined that the use of Kaspersky Lab, Inc. products and web
