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Cybercriminals Use Fake Apps to Steal Data and Blackmail Users Across Asia’s Mobile Networks

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new, large-scale mobile malware campaign that's targeting Android and iOS platforms with fake dating, social networking, cloud storage, and car service apps to steal sensitive personal data. The cross-platform threat has been codenamed SarangTrap by Zimperium zLabs. Users in South Korea appear to be the primary focus. "This extensive campaign involved

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From Ex Machina to Exfiltration: When AI Gets Too Curious

From prompt injection to emergent behavior, today’s curious AI models are quietly breaching trust boundaries. The post From Ex Machina to Exfiltration: When AI Gets Too Curious appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Why React Didn't Kill XSS: The New JavaScript Injection Playbook

React conquered XSS? Think again. That's the reality facing JavaScript developers in 2025, where attackers have quietly evolved their injection techniques to exploit everything from prototype pollution to AI-generated code, bypassing the very frameworks designed to keep applications secure. Full 47-page guide with framework-specific defenses (PDF, free). JavaScript conquered the web, but with

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Organizations Warned of Exploited PaperCut Flaw

Threat actors are exploiting a two-year-old vulnerability in PaperCut that allows them to execute arbitrary code remotely. The post Organizations Warned of Exploited PaperCut Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Fable Security Raises $31 Million for Human Risk Management Platform

Fable Security has emerged from stealth mode with a solution designed to detect risky behaviors and educate employees. The post Fable Security Raises $31 Million for Human Risk Management Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Aanchal Gupta Joins Adobe as Chief Security Officer

Aanchal Gupta has been named CSO at Adobe after holding cybersecurity leadership roles at Microsoft for more than five years. The post Aanchal Gupta Joins Adobe as Chief Security Officer appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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CISA Adds PaperCut NG/MF CSRF Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a high-severity security vulnerability impacting PaperCutNG/MF print management software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-2533 (CVSS score: 8.4), is a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) bug that could

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Creating Realistic Deepfakes Is Getting Easier Than Ever. Fighting Back May Take Even More AI

Creating realistic deepfakes is easier than ever, causing security problems for governments, businesses and individuals and making trust the most valuable currency of the digital age. The post Creating Realistic Deepfakes Is Getting Easier Than Ever. Fighting Back May Take Even More AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Cyberattack On Russian Airline Aeroflot Causes the Cancellation of More Than 100 Flights

Ukrainian and Belarusian hacker groups, which oppose the rule of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, claimed responsibility for the cyberattack. The post Cyberattack On Russian Airline Aeroflot Causes the Cancellation of More Than 100 Flights appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Hackers Breach Toptal GitHub, Publish 10 Malicious npm Packages With 5,000 Downloads

In what's the latest instance of a software supply chain attack, unknown threat actors managed to compromise Toptal's GitHub organization account and leveraged that access to publish 10 malicious packages to the npm registry. The packages contained code to exfiltrate GitHub authentication tokens and destroy victim systems, Socket said in a report published last week. In addition, 73 repositories

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NASCAR Confirms Personal Information Stolen in Ransomware Attack

NASCAR says names, Social Security numbers, and other personal information was stolen in an April 2025 ransomware attack. The post NASCAR Confirms Personal Information Stolen in Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Root Evidence Launches With $12.5 Million in Seed Funding

Root Evidence is developing fully integrated vulnerability scanning and attack surface management technology. The post Root Evidence Launches With $12.5 Million in Seed Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Scattered Spider Targeting VMware vSphere Environments

The financially motivated group is pivoting from Active Directory to VMware vSphere environments, deploying ransomware from the hypervisor. The post Scattered Spider Targeting VMware vSphere Environments appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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⚡ Weekly Recap — SharePoint Breach, Spyware, IoT Hijacks, DPRK Fraud, Crypto Drains and More

Some risks don’t breach the perimeter—they arrive through signed software, clean resumes, or sanctioned vendors still hiding in plain sight. This week, the clearest threats weren’t the loudest—they were the most legitimate-looking. In an environment where identity, trust, and tooling are all interlinked, the strongest attack path is often the one that looks like it belongs. Security teams are

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Allianz Life Data Breach Impacts Most of 1.4 Million US Customers

Allianz subsidiary said the information of customers, financial professionals and employees was compromised as a result of a hack. The post Allianz Life Data Breach Impacts Most of 1.4 Million US Customers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Email Security Is Stuck in the Antivirus Era: Why It Needs a Modern Approach

Picture this: you’ve hardened every laptop in your fleet with real‑time telemetry, rapid isolation, and automated rollback. But the corporate mailbox—the front door for most attackers—is still guarded by what is effectively a 1990s-era filter. This isn't a balanced approach. Email remains a primary vector for breaches, yet we often treat it as a static stream of messages instead of a dynamic,

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BlackSuit Ransomware Group Transitioning to ‘Chaos’ Amid Leak Site Seizure

The emerging Chaos ransomware appears to be a rebranding of BlackSuit, which had its leak site seized by law enforcement. The post BlackSuit Ransomware Group Transitioning to ‘Chaos’ Amid Leak Site Seizure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Flaw Allowing Website Takeover Found in WordPress Plugin With 400k Installations

The Post SMTP email delivery WordPress plugin is affected by a critical vulnerability and half of websites using it remain unpatched. The post Flaw Allowing Website Takeover Found in WordPress Plugin With 400k Installations appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Scattered Spider Hijacks VMware ESXi to Deploy Ransomware on Critical U.S. Infrastructure

The notorious cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider is targeting VMware ESXi hypervisors in attacks targeting retail, airline, and transportation sectors in North America. "The group's core tactics have remained consistent and do not rely on software exploits. Instead, they use a proven playbook centered on phone calls to an IT help desk," Google's Mandiant team said in an extensive

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Critical Flaws in Niagara Framework Threaten Smart Buildings and Industrial Systems Worldwide

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered over a dozen security vulnerabilities impacting Tridium's Niagara Framework that could allow an attacker on the same network to compromise the system under certain circumstances. "These vulnerabilities are fully exploitable if a Niagara system is misconfigured, thereby disabling encryption on a specific network device," Nozomi Networks Labs said in a