Feb 07, 2025The Hacker NewsVulnerability / Malware The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned that a security flaw impacting Trimble Cityworks GIS-centric asset management software has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-0994 (CVSS v4 score: 8.6), a deserialization of untrusted data bug that could permit
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Researchers at Reversing Labs have discovered two malicious machine learning (ML) models available on Hugging Face, the leading hub for sharing AI models and applications. While these models contain malicious code, they were not flagged as “unsafe” by Hugging Face’s security scanning mechanisms. The Reversing Labs researchers saw that these malicious models exploit a novel
Feb 08, 2025Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Supply Chain Security Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious machine learning (ML) models on Hugging Face that leveraged an unusual technique of “broken” pickle files to evade detection. “The pickle files extracted from the mentioned PyTorch archives revealed the malicious Python content at the beginning of the file,” ReversingLabs
Most GDPR enforcement actions by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) were against public sector organizations in 2024, an analysis by URM Consulting has revealed. A total of 27 UK public sector entities faced actions under the GDPR, compared to just four private companies. The actions took a range of forms, including fines, reprimands and
Feb 07, 2025Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Artificial Intelligence A new audit of DeepSeek’s mobile app for the Apple iOS operating system has found glaring security issues, the foremost being that it sends sensitive data over the internet sans any encryption, exposing it to interception and manipulation attacks. The assessment comes from NowSecure, which also found
A global law enforcement effort has led to the arrest of two suspected leaders of an extremist online group accused of grooming and coercing minors into acts of violence and sexual exploitation. Authorities in the US arrested the individuals on January 30 as part of a broader Europol-coordinated crackdown on “The Com” organization, an international
Feb 06, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Malware Bogus websites advertising Google Chrome have been used to distribute malicious installers for a remote access trojan called ValleyRAT. The malware, first detected in 2023, is attributed to a threat actor tracked as Silver Fox, with prior attack campaigns primarily targeting Chinese-speaking regions like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and
A new phishing campaign orchestrated by the financially motivated threat group UAC-0006 has been discovered targeting customers of PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest state-owned financial institution. Cybersecurity analysts from CloudSEK identified an ongoing attack that employs password-protected archives containing malicious JavaScript, VBScript or LNK files to evade detection. Attack Methods and Payloads UAC-0006 has been observed deploying
Feb 05, 2025Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Data Breach The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been linked to an active campaign that leverages fake LinkedIn job offers in the cryptocurrency and travel sectors to deliver malware capable of infecting Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems. According to cybersecurity company Bitdefender, the scam begins with a message sent
A new malware strain, ELF/Sshdinjector.A!tr, has been linked to the DaggerFly espionage group and used in the Lunar Peek campaign to target Linux-based network appliances. Its primary function is data exfiltration. How the Malware Works Uncovered by cybersecurity researchers at FortiGuard Labs, the malware operates using multiple binaries that work together to infect a system: Dropper: Checks if
Feb 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a software supply chain attack targeting the Go ecosystem that involves a malicious package capable of granting the adversary remote access to infected systems. The package, named github.com/boltdb-go/bolt, is a typosquat of the legitimate BoltDB database module (github.com/boltdb/bolt), per Socket. The malicious
A hidden backdoor function embedded in the firmware of the Contec CMS8000 patient monitor has been identified by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The vulnerability, which includes a hard-coded IP address and the potential for unauthorized access to patient data, exists in all analyzed versions of the device’s firmware. The Contec CMS8000
Feb 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security As many as 768 vulnerabilities with designated CVE identifiers were reported as exploited in the wild in 2024, up from 639 CVEs in 2023, registering a 20% increase year-over-year. Describing 2024 as “another banner year for threat actors targeting the exploitation of vulnerabilities,” VulnCheck said 23.6% of known
R1, the latest large language model (LLM) from Chinese startup DeepSeek, is under fire for multiple security weaknesses. The company’s spotlight on the performance of its reasoning LLM has also brought scrutiny. A handful of security research reports released in late January have highlighted flaws in the model. Additionally, the LLM critically underperforms in a
Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Zero-Day BeyondTrust has revealed it completed an investigation into a recent cybersecurity incident that targeted some of the company’s Remote Support SaaS instances by making use of a compromised API key. The company said the breach involved 17 Remote Support SaaS customers and that the API key was used to
Tata Technologies Limited, a subsidiary of the Indian conglomerate Tata Group, has been the victim of a ransomware attack affecting some of its IT assets. The publicly traded company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) of the attack in a January 31 letter. The tech giant temporarily suspended some IT services as a precaution, but
Feb 01, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Fraud Prevention U.S. and Dutch law enforcement agencies have announced that they have dismantled 39 domains and their associated servers as part of efforts to disrupt a network of online marketplaces originating from Pakistan. The action, which took place on January 29, 2025, has been codenamed Operation Heart Blocker. The
Threat actors are increasing their focus on exploiting public-facing applications to achieve initial access, according to Cisco Talos’ Incident Response Trends in Q4 2024 report. The exploitation of public-facing applications was the most common method of gaining initial access in Q4 2024, making up 40% of incidents. The researchers said this marked a “notable shift”
Jan 31, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Healthcare The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued alerts about the presence of hidden functionality in Contec CMS8000 patient monitors and Epsimed MN-120 patient monitors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-0626, carries a CVSS v4 score of 7.7 on a scale
Google Play has blocked 2.36 million policy-violating apps from being published and banned 158,000 developer accounts associated with harmful activities in 2024. More than 92% of Google’s human reviews for harmful apps are now AI-assisted, the tech giant said in a new report released on Wednesday. This allows faster and more accurate detection, helping prevent malicious apps from reaching
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 to enable their operations, finding productivity gains but not yet developing novel capabilities,” Google Threat
AI-driven API vulnerabilities have skyrocketed by 1205% in the past year. The figures come from the 2025 API ThreatStats Report by Wallarm, which highlights how AI has become the biggest driver of API security threats, with nearly 99% of AI-related vulnerabilities tied to API flaws. The study also found that 57% of AI-powered APIs were accessible externally,
Jan 29, 2025Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Malware 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 hosted a web-based administrative platform, built with a
US energy contractor ENGlobal has revealed that sensitive personal data was stolen after it was hit by a cyber-attack in November 2024. In an updated filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dated January 27, 2025, the engineering firm said the threat actor gained access to a portion of its IT system that contained
Jan 28, 2025Ravie LakshmananPhishing Attack / Network Security A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to an ongoing phishing email campaign that has been ongoing since at least July 2024 specifically targeting users in Poland and Germany. The attacks have led to the deployment of various payloads, such as Agent Tesla, Snake Keylogger, and
A new report has revealed a surge in the use of so-called “hidden text salting” techniques to evade email security measures in the latter half of 2024. This method, also known as “poisoning,” allows cybercriminals to bypass spam filters, confuse email parsers and evade detection engines by embedding invisible elements in the HTML source code
Jan 27, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in GitHub Desktop as well as other Git-related projects that, if successfully exploited, could permit an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a user’s Git credentials. “Git implements a protocol called Git Credential Protocol to retrieve credentials from the credential helper,” GMO
The FBI has warned that North Korean IT worker schemes are stealing data to extort their victims as part of efforts to generate revenue for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The US intelligence agency confirmed it has observed North Korean IT workers engaging in this tactic over recent months. This involves exfiltrating stolen
A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in Meta’s Llama large language model (LLM) framework that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the llama-stack inference server. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-50050, has been assigned a CVSS score of 6.3 out of 10.0. Supply chain security firm Snyk, on the
A new report by Recorded Future has revealed new elements about the sophisticated techniques by which a well-known Russian crypto scamming group operates. The group, Crazy Evil, is a collective of social engineering specialists tasked with redirecting legitimate traffic to malicious landing pages – commonly called a ‘traffer team.’ Since 2021, the group has been